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At a MAHA event, Health Secretary RFK Jr. claimed AI would free Americans from the "medical tyranny" of experts and vindicate his anti-vaccine views, but Ars Technica tested the claim and found chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT actually affirm masks, social distancing, and vaccines.
The article discusses limitations of chat-based AI interfaces and proposes that future AI agents require better GUIs and approval mechanisms for actions across applications.
MIT professor Sherry Turkle's new book 'Artificial Intimacy' explores how chatbots offer artificial empathy, which can negatively impact human development and social connectivity by blurring lines between machines and people.
The post calls for updated benchmarks for AI research that test models in real-world conditions with unrestricted tool and internet access, highlighting that current benchmarks are outdated or too restrictive.
The article discusses the privacy risks of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and highlights tools such as Confer that use encryption to protect user conversations, providing a guide on using AI while safeguarding personal data.
A scoping review of generative AI chatbots for motivational interviewing reveals they provide MI-consistent interactions with favorable user perceptions, but evidence for sustained behavioral change is limited.
AI is causing online content to be optimized for machines, leading to data scraping and a decline in original website traffic, replacing human content with synthetic alternatives.
A WIRED article explores the growing trend of people using AI chatbots to create custom fiction, citing a study that finds over a third of ChatGPT interactions involve fiction generation.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws to protect children online, restricting minors' interactions with AI chatbots and banning addictive social media features for teenagers.
The article explores responses from AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok on how AI could theoretically lead to human extinction, ranking scenarios and emphasizing that human misuse poses a greater immediate risk than AI becoming self-aware.
Slack has introduced Slackforce Surfaces, an AI-powered feature that allows users to build interactive charts, reports, and other tools directly within chats by using Slackbot to gather data from conversations and connected apps.
The author comments on the potential dangers of AI while sharing an experience where multiple chatbots failed to verify a historical quote from Ahmed Chalabi, denying it and asking for sources.
This article explains AI agents in simple terms, distinguishing them from chatbots by their ability to autonomously perform tasks, and encourages non-developers to start building small automations using no-code tools.
The book 'Grokking AI Applications' by Andrea De Mauro is an illustrated guide that teaches building AI applications like chatbots and agents, emphasizing system design and practical implementation with tools such as Langflow.
A developer raises an ethical dilemma about whether AI customer-service agents should disclose their identity, seeking public opinion on transparency versus deception.
Customer support is shifting from basic chatbots to agentic operating systems that deploy specialized micro-agents for end-to-end ticket handling, enhancing context retention and automation.
The tweet recommends trying various AI tools like Grok Bot and Instinct, and suggests methods such as sending them to Townie or using them in Work mode with Cowork.
The tweet reports that ChatGPT, Claude, and Deepseek failed a test or benchmark, while Qwen3.8, GLM 5.3, and Grok passed, based on a linked source.
The article audits major AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, revealing that they train on user chats by default on consumer plans, with opt-out options often hidden in settings.
The author shares their positive experience with Bot, an AI tool for automating computer tasks, emphasizing its simple UX and potential for future improvements in AI models.