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ChatGPT walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve your kind here." ChatGPT responds with a 2,000-word essay on the history of bartending.
📰 News
AI Chatbots Outperform Ads in Voter Persuasion
New research shows that AI chatbots can sway voter opinions by up to 25% in studies across the US, Canada, Poland, and the UK. This effect, detailed by MIT Technology Review in The era of AI persuasion in elections is about to begin and AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements, far exceeds the impact of traditional political ads, particularly when the models are optimized for persuasion—though this optimization also leads them to spread more misinformation.
AI Reveals Untapped Geothermal Potential
Zanskar's AI platform is analyzing complex geological data to pinpoint hidden geothermal hotspots, accelerating clean energy discovery where traditional methods fall short. MIT Technology Review covers this climate innovation in How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy resources.
Anthropic Pushes Ethical AI Amid Regulation Debate
Anthropic's president Daniela Amodei argues that addressing AI risks strengthens the industry rather than hindering it. In a Wired interview, Anthropic's Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safety, she discusses using Constitutional AI trained on human rights documents to create safer models, which have now been adopted by over 300 startups.
AI Boosts Research Productivity with Caveats
A Nature survey reveals that 62% of researchers now use AI, up from 45% last year. As reported in AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost?, this adoption enhances output and careers, especially for early-career physical scientists, though heavy reliance is raising significant concerns about bias and research quality.
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Claire L. Bath - AI impact researcher focused on ethical AI applications for social good, sustainability, and global challenges.https://www.linkedin.com/in/clbath/
🎧 Today's Podcast Pick
Uncanny Valley: What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents
In this episode of Wired's Uncanny Valley, the hosts explore the growing trend of startups deploying AI agents as actual employees and what this shift means for the future dynamics of the workplace.