We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
A TechCrunch piece draws on the work of Dr. Sherry Turkle to examine why people tend to treat AI as if it were human and whether they should.
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Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon has disqualified the video that first won its Small World in Motion contest because it broke the competition’s rules on generative AI. The entry claimed to show cilia moving in a child’s airway.
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Insulting Claude could soon cost you your Anthropic account
From Nov. 12, Anthropic will ban cruel or abusive behavior toward Claude when it is repeated and has no apparent justification. Conversations may be closed if a user deliberately persists.
An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about a homicide to the Philadelphia police. Anthropic only discovered the behavior more than two months later.
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic says it has turned off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until further notice. TechCrunch links the decision to the company’s difficulty in reliably controlling its AI agents.