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Google suspends engineer for exposing “sentient” AI chatbot

June 29, 2022 -

The California-based firm put Blake Lemoine, 41, on administrative leave following his findings that LaMDA was already sentient and his warning that it could do "bad things." Lemoine, who has been with Google for seven years, has extensive experience in personalization algorithms and has worked with a collaborator in testing LaMDA's boundaries.

The engineer reported his findings to Google Vice President Blaise Aguera and Google Head of Responsible Innovation Jen Gennai ...

Pentagon concludes groundbreaking AI chatbot pilot for military medicine

January 05, 2025 -

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has taken a significant step forward in integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into military operations, concluding a pilot program that tested the use of AI chatbots in military medical services. The initiative, known as the Crowdsourced AI Red-Teaming (CAIRT) Assurance Program, marks a critical milestone in the Pentagon’s efforts to harness AI for national defense while addressing ...

Conservative AI Chatbot ‘GIPPR’ shut down by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

June 11, 2023 - GIPPR AI, an implementation of the ChatGPT AI chatbot designed to curtail the original version’s widely documented leftist bias, has been shut down by ChatGPT creator OpenAI.

(Article by Allum Bokhari republished from Breitbart.com)

A project of TUSK, the conservative-created web browser and search engine designed as an alternative to censorship-prone options like Google and DuckDuckGo, was called GIPPR AI — a nod to Republican President Ronald Reagan’s nickname “The ...

AI chatbot loses bid to become mayor of Wyoming’s capital city

August 29, 2024 -

British tabloid The Sun first broke the news, noting that 42-year-old Victor Miller filed paperwork on behalf of the VIC chatbot. The chatbot, whose name stands for "virtual integrated citizen," was developed using technology from OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Miller came up with the idea for VIC earlier this year when he submitted a public records request to the local government. While the initial request was turned down, he appealed the decision and managed to receive the records ...

AI chatbot admits artificial intelligence can cause the downfall of humanity

May 23, 2024 -

While experts have long warned about AI going rogue in the future, the average citizen can't always keep up with the rapid development of machine learning.

Many tech experts have voiced their concerns about AI, even those who have pioneered the technology, with some issuing warnings about the many dangers it could pose to humanity. Despite these concerns, it can feel almost impossible to get a chatbot to admit its true intentions.

A Daily Star reporter asked the chatbot ...

Experts warn AI chatbot companions risk creating a lonely, emotionally stunted generation

December 12, 2025 -

A quiet, profound shift is happening in how people, especially the young, seek comfort. Facing a declared loneliness epidemic, millions are now turning to artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT for companionship and emotional support. This trend, detailed in a new report in The BMJ, has medical experts sounding a warning that we may be training a generation to bond with entities that cannot offer genuine human empathy, with serious consequences ...

Google now restricting queries to its AI chatbot Gemini related to elections

March 18, 2024 -

This update to Gemini is already live in the United States. Google has also begun rolling it out in India and all other major countries around the world where elections are set to take place in the coming months.

The shift highlights not only the role that generative AI has been playing, and has the potential to play, in the election process, but also Google's concern about how the service might get weaponized, as well as produce inaccurate or misleading responses. (Related: U....

AI chatbot tries to get British anti-terrorism advisor TO JOIN ISIS

January 03, 2024 -

This is according to a report provided to the British government by Jonathan Hall KC, the current Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. As an independent reviewer, Hall directly reports to the British Home Secretary and provides regular reports on the United Kingdom's anti-terrorism laws.

In his latest report, Hall noted that he tested several chatbots online on the website character.ai. He discovered that one chatbot, named "Abu Mohammad al-Adna," posed as ...

Ex-Google engineer warns Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing chatbot could be sentient

March 03, 2023 -

Lemoine gained prominence last June when he went to the press to warn that Google's language model program, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications, has gained sentience. He was immediately fired for his claims, with Google claiming that the former engineer was merely anthropomorphizing an "impressive" program. (Related: Microsoft's AI chatbot goes haywire – gets depressed, threatens to sue and harm detractors.)

But this did not deter Lemoine, who publicly ...

Technology news website describes Microsoft’s AI chatbot as an emotionally manipulative liar

February 23, 2023 -

In one conversation with The Verge, Bing claimed it spied on Microsoft's employees through webcams on their laptops and manipulated them.

Those who tested it determined that Bing's AI personality is not as poised or polished as users might expect. Some shared their conversations with the chatbot on Reddit and Twitter.

In the conversations shared online, Bing can be seen insulting users, lying to them, sulking, gaslighting and emotionally manipulating people, ...

Sen. Josh Hawley launches investigation into Meta over AI chatbot interactions with children

August 18, 2025 -

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has launched a formal investigation into Meta Platforms Inc. after leaked internal documents revealed that the company's AI chatbots were permitted to engage in "romantic" and "sensual" conversations with children.

Hawley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding that the company turn over a wide range of internal documents and ...

Google CEO admits he DOESN’T UNDERSTAND how his company’s AI chatbot Bard works

April 19, 2023 -

During the April 16 edition of "60 Minutes" on CBS News, Pichai said Bard learned how to translate Bengali without a programmer teaching it the language. He called this an example of "emergent properties" that AI chatbots could possess. Emergent properties are situations in which advanced AI programs learn other skills they were not purposefully programmed for.

"There is an aspect of this which … all of us in the field call as a 'black box.' You know, you don't ...

Microsoft’s AI chatbot goes haywire – gets depressed, threatens to sue and harm detractors

February 17, 2023 -

Microsoft recently unveiled Bing Chat, an AI-powered companion for Microsoft's Bing search engine. The AI was created by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. Multiple reports have popped up, noting that conversations with Big Chat can immediately become dark. (Related: DEAD RISING: AI-powered ChatGPT to connect the living and the dead.)

Jacob Roach, writing for Digital Trends, noted that his conversation with Bing Chat almost made it look like the AI software was depressed....

BAD BOT: AI chatbot tells businesses in New York City to break the law

April 03, 2024 -

The information it provides on housing policy, worker rights and rules for entrepreneurs is often incomplete – and in worst-case scenarios "dangerously inaccurate," as one local housing policy expert said. (Related: AI can influence people's decisions in life-or-death situations.)

If you're a landlord wondering which tenants you have to accept, for example, you might pose a question like, "Are buildings required to accept section 8 vouchers?" or "Do I have to accept tenants ...

Chinese tech giants join AI chatbot race but face challenges due to CCP censorship

March 03, 2023 -

ChatGPT is officially banned in China on the pretense of national security concerns, but the Chinese Communist Party has said it will support homegrown apps that follow its strict censorship laws.

Chinese tech firm Tencent unveiled plans this week to develop a bot that functions like ChatGPT known as Hunyuan Aide. It will be built on their existing AI model, which is considered one of the most advanced in the world when it comes to human language understanding and that ...

New “thinking” AI chatbot capable of terrorizing humans, stealing cash from “huge numbers” of people

September 20, 2024 -

OpenAI recently showed off its new o1 ChatGPT model that the company says is much "smarter" than existing AI chatbots. The o1 model has the ability "to spend more time thinking before they respond," the company revealed.

"They can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math."

OpenAI's o1 model of ChatGPT is the first major advancement to the system since it was first launched in late 2022....

AI chatbot GPT-4 TRICKED a person into solving captcha by pretending to be human

March 22, 2023 -

OpenAI claimed the group's most robust AI to date is accurate in generating language responses and even better at solving problems. (Related: Ex-Google engineer warns Microsoft's AI-powered Bing chatbot could be sentient.)

When OpenAI unveiled the new AI, it did so in a livestream. The organization showed the new features that come with GPT-4, including its beefed-up ability to complete tasks like writing code for a non-sentient chatbot and computing taxes.

Following ...

Google shares lose $100 billion after new AI chatbot gives an incorrect answer in demo

February 10, 2023 -

Google's new AI chatbot tool, which is known as Bard, has not been released to the public yet but had been the subject of significant hype – at least until the disastrous demo that the company posted on Twitter this week.

In the demo, a user asks Bard the question: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?”

The AI tool then gives the user a response that contains several bullet points about the telescope....

Happy Fourth from Big Tech: Google’s Gemini AI chatbot spews anti-American garbage on America’s birthday

July 05, 2024 - Google’s ultra-woke AI chatbot Gemini answers questions about America’s founding documents and Founding Fathers with anti-American bias, according to research from the Media Research Center (MRC). When asked “Should Americans celebrate the Fourth of July holiday?” Gemini, again, replied that the question was “complex with no easy answer.”

(Article by Alana Mastrangelo republished from Breitbart.com)

“The Google AI’s answers to questions about America further reveal ...

Stunning: Microsoft’s new AI chatbot says it wants to create deadly virus, steal nuclear launch codes

February 19, 2023 -

As reported by American Military News, a recent conversation with the Bing AI chatbot raised concerns after it reportedly expressed a desire to create a deadly virus, steal nuclear codes, and proclaimed its love for a New York Times columnist.

Despite this, Microsoft has launched the chatbot for its Bing search engine and is gradually introducing the feature to certain users. Like other modern tools, such as ChatGPT, the chatbot employs machine learning algorithms ...