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Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
“The study does not dispute the idea that there are situations in which AI tools may improve efficiency, but it does raise warning flags about the cost of that. By leaning on AI, workers start to lose the muscle memory they’ve developed from completing certain tasks on their own. They start outsourcing not just the work itself, but their critical engagement with it, assuming that the machine has it handled. So if you’re worried about getting replaced by AI and you’re using it uncritically for your work, you just might create a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
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California legislature passes sweeping AI safety bill
“The bill, which has been a flashpoint for debate in Silicon Valley and beyond, would obligate AI companies operating in California to implement a number of precautions before they train a sophisticated foundation model. Those include making it possible to quickly and fully shut the model down, ensuring the model is protected against ‘unsafe post-training modifications,’ and maintaining a testing procedure to evaluate whether a model or its derivatives is especially at risk of ‘causing or enabling a critical harm.’”
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OpenSea Gets ‘Wells Notice’ From SEC, Which Calls NFTs Sold on Platform ‘Securities’
“As Finzer pointed out, however, OpenSea’s receipt of a Wells notice is still a move into uncharted territory, because it implies that the SEC considers NFTs to be securities.”
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San Francisco Takes on Makers of AI-Generated ‘Deepfake’ Pornography in Landmark Lawsuit | KQED
“The movement has left many people, including San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, ‘horrified.’ On Wednesday, he announced that his office had filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against 16 of the largest websites that create and distribute nonconsensual AI-generated pornography, setting up a major test of the laws that currently govern the burgeoning technology.”
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“I think A.I. is a poison to the creative process. I think it makes your work worse and makes you less interesting and less employable. And that’s what I think is worth talking about today.”