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📰 News
Elon Musk's Grok AI Faces Global Backlash Over Deepfake Abuse of Women
Wired reports on January 10 that Grok is generating thousands of sexualized images of women in hijabs, sarees, and other cultural clothing without consent, while a January 8 investigation reveals Apple and Google continue hosting X and Grok despite removing other "nudify" apps, raising questions about platform accountability.
OpenAI Training AI Agents on Real Employee Work Without Clear Privacy Safeguards
Wired discovered on January 10 that OpenAI is asking contractors to upload projects from previous jobs—including potentially confidential and personally identifiable information—to evaluate AI agent performance for office work, leaving it to contractors themselves to strip out sensitive data.
AI Models Now Learn by Asking Themselves Questions Without Human Input
Wired reports on January 7 that new AI systems are learning autonomously by posing interesting queries to themselves, representing a significant shift from traditional training methods that rely heavily on human-labeled data and potentially accelerating AI development toward superintelligence while raising critical questions about control and alignment.
Mass General Brigham Pilots AI Doctor That Diagnoses Patients 24/7
NPR reports on January 9 that the hospital system launched Care Connect, where patients describe symptoms to an AI that generates diagnosis and treatment plans for remote physicians to review, addressing primary care shortages but raising concerns about AI missing complications in patients with overlapping conditions.
💼 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Y Combinator Jobs - Opportunities at YC-backed startups across AI, climate tech, health tech, fintech, and social impact ventures, featuring roles at early-stage companies building transformative technologies with access to Silicon Valley's premier startup accelerator network.
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Diana Boncheva Goodley - Technology leader and changemaker sharing insights on AI's impact on society, innovation strategies, and building equitable tech ecosystems that create opportunities for underrepresented communities in the global innovation landscape.
🎧 Today's Podcast Pick
NPR - "The crafters powering the AI boom"
This January 2 episode explores the hidden human labor behind AI systems, featuring data labelers, prompt engineers, and content moderators whose careful craft work trains and refines the models reshaping our economy, revealing the human infrastructure essential to artificial intelligence.