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AI Prompts Quietly Erode Truth and Authority
The Pope calls it a Tower of Babel. Security researchers call it a new attack surface. But for most people, the problem with AI ethics starts much smaller — with a single question typed into a chat window. You ask for a...
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AGI arrival risks human irrelevance
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, recently made a bold claim: artificial general intelligence is "probably only a few short years away." 1] He compared its arrival to the discovery of fire or electricity, not...
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OpenAI staff fund opposing AI regulation PAC
When the engineers who build the technology start funding the opposition, you know the battle lines have been drawn. A group of rank and file OpenAI employees has donated over $215,000 to a super PAC called Guardrails...
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ELIZA effect humans still trust machines without understanding
In 1966, a secretary watched MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum type lines of code into a computer. She saw the machine respond to a simple sentence "Men are all alike" with a question that sounded almost human: "IN WHAT...
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Government AI shields policy decisions from public view
The year is 2025, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been using artificial intelligence to decide which federal regulations to keep, cut, or rewrite. This is not a future scenario from a...
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Nuclear analogy fails for AI control
The debate over nationalising artificial intelligence rests on a neat analogy: AI, like nuclear technology, is a dual use tool that can power a city or level one. The argument, as presented by DBS' chief economist...
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The Hidden Cost of Cheap AI Tokens
The numbers are designed to impress. OpenAI reports that from GPT 4 to GPT 5.4, the price per million tokens fell 97 percent. GPT 5.6 continues that trajectory, delivering better performance with 54 percent fewer output...
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MIT Cybersecurity Clinic Treats Human Flaw in Ransomware Attacks
In May 2019, Baltimore's municipal government collapsed into digital paralysis. Cybercriminals had encrypted critical files across city systems, demanding payment to restore access. The city refused. For weeks, real...
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The AI Arms Race in Technical Hiring
It starts with a screen. A candidate sits alone in a room, a webcam trained on their face. On the other side, a recruiter or a hiring manager asks a question about algorithms or system design. The candidate's eyes...
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Foggy City Writer Falsely Accused of AI Use
The fog settled over the city like a slow, deliberate lie. It was the kind of morning where the skyline dissolved into gray nothing, and even the familiar shapes of buildings seemed to waver, uncertain of their own...
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Senior AI Adviser Exits White House Amid Policy Exodus
The view from the top of the policy machine is a landscape of blinking screens and silent corridors. From the seventh floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the White House complex looks like a grid of...
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AI hallucination forces Indian judiciary to define itself
When the Hallucination Becomes the Law: How AI's Greatest Flaw Is Forcing Justice to Define Itself The mistake at the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal in Bengaluru was not dramatic. It did not involve a complex legal...
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