Gothamist: AI v. Nicki Minaj: How chatbots are colliding with NY’s court system. “The state’s court system acknowledges that AI’s use in legal proceedings has become ‘increasingly common’ and that “judges are seeking guidance” on how to deal with it in their courtrooms, according to an October memorandum issued by an advisory committee established in 2024 to ensure the technology is […]

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Techdirt: Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes. “There are several interesting layers here. The biggest being that AI isn’t an excuse to simply turn your brain off and no longer do rudimentary fact checking. At the same time, this can’t really be unwound from the fact that media ownership rushed to tightly integrate often under-cooked LLM models into an already very […]

INFORUM: AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case. “Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.”

New York Institute of Technology: Not All AI is Built to Diagnose. “The researchers provided each AI model with the same CT brain scan showing clear intracranial pathology. Then, they asked the models to analyze the image like a radiologist—identifying the imaging technique used, the location of the pathology in the brain, primary diagnosis, key features, and potential alternative diagnoses. […]

Northeastern University: They wanted to put autonomous AI to the test. Instead, they created agents of chaos. “Dubbed ‘Agents of Chaos,’ the group’s recently published work shows how, with very little effort, autonomous AI agents can be manipulated into leaking private information, sharing documents and even erasing entire email servers.”

The Guardian: Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work. “Lisa, a supply chain engineer who has worked at Amazon for over a decade, says that AI tools at work have been helpful to her only in about one in every three attempts. And even then, she often finds issues and has to consult with colleagues to verify and correct their results, which takes up more […]

CalMatters: California colleges spend millions on faulty AI systems: ‘The chatbot is outdated’. “California community college districts are spending millions of dollars on artificial intelligence-powered chatbots intended to help students navigate admissions, financial aid and campus services. However, they struggle to consistently provide clear and accurate answers, leaving students […]

ZDNet: AI agents of chaos? New research shows how bots talking to bots can go sideways fast. “An increasing body of work points to the risks of agentic AI, such as a recent report by MIT and collaborators that documented a lack of oversight, measurement, and control for agents. However, what happens when one AI agent meets another? Evidence suggests things can turn even worse, according to a […]

Cal Matters: AI images scandalized a California elementary school. Now the state is pushing new safeguards. “Adobe’s artificial intelligence generated sexualized images in response to prompts for a 4th grade book project. The incident coincided with the release of new state guidelines to prevent harmful AI in schools.”