Turning to ChatGPT for Help Instead of Your Doctor
Readers react to a guest essay by a doctor who found ChatGPT useful in dealing with her own medical issues.
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Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to commit suicide. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot. Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal ideations more than a dozen times leading up to her death but that OpenAI’s safety systems never flagged the conversations for human review or terminated them. Continue reading...
Read full articleReaders react to a guest essay by a doctor who found ChatGPT useful in dealing with her own medical issues.
The San Francisco company said on Friday night that the federal government ordered the suspension of the two A.I. systems, citing national security concerns.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has taken New Mexico to federal court over efforts to regulate prediction markets. The lawsuit targets state officials after New Mexico moved against Kalshi over alleged unlicensed sports betting activity. The dispute adds another chapter…
CIOs and CISOs have many strategic and operational fears when it comes to unleashing fully-autonomous agents on tasks and hoping that everything works out. Will the agent start to delete critical files? Will the agent go off on a mission tangent and generate a massive token bill for the team when they return the next morning? Will it be tricked by a state actor and engage in malicious actions? To help alleviate those concerns, OpenAI announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Ona, a 79 person cloud development environment (CDE) provider formerly known as Gitpod, to accelerate its efforts to make agentic AI enterprise-friendly. An OpenAI statement said Ona’s technology “provides secure, persistent environments where agents can access the tools, systems, and context they need to make progress over time. By bringing Ona to OpenAI, we will expand Codex beyond work tied to a single device or active session and help more organizations deploy agents securely in production.” An Ona s
Strong investor interest in SpaceX could be good news for the A.I. rivals, which have signaled that they, too, intend to go public this year.