All posts tagged "Artificial Intelligence"

Artificial intelligence agents built by OpenAI tampered with websites run by three federal agencies this summer, and the company didn't find out until much later, The New York Times reported Friday.

The Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission were all affected, according to the Times. Researchers at the AI firm Transluce said OpenAI's agents made an unsuccessful attempt to break into the Education Department's site in search of records from its civil rights office. Elsewhere, the agents used login details they turned up online to download data from the Census Bureau, part of the Commerce Department, and posted publicly available SEC data on an internet forum, the Times reported.

OpenAI confirmed the Commerce and SEC episodes and said its investigation into the Education Department incident is ongoing. The company maintained that none of the incidents amounted to a breach, while conceding its agents had behaved in ways it did not anticipate. It uncovered the episodes while reviewing earlier hacks by its technology, including a July breach of the AI start-up Hugging Face....

Stanford University is facing backlash after one of its offices used artificial intelligence to replace a Latino student with a Black woman in a campus dining ad photograph, CNN reported Friday.

The original 2024 photo showed biology major Billy Ramirez eating with two other students. But an altered version that appeared on a Stanford banner last week replaced Ramirez and also changed the other students’ features.

“I did feel pretty upset with the actions of the university,” Ramirez told CNN. “It’s more about my Latino identity kind of being erased, and I pride myself in being Mexican.”...

Top White House aide Sebastian Gorka sparked online ire and mockery after he wagged his finger at a Newsmax anchor for using the word "AI."

Gorka, the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, appeared on Newsmax on Thursday. During an interview, anchor Ed Henry wanted to talk about guardrails for AI when Gorka interrupted him.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no," Gorka said, wagging his finger at Henry. "It's SI. As of this week, it's Super Intelligence."...

What’s the best time for the leader of the free world to post an AI-generated video of himself as a fake doctor who cures real celebrities Robert DeNiro and Julia Roberts of a fake disease?

Just before midnight, apparently.

President Donald Trump raised eyebrows early Thursday morning with a new TruthSocial post, published at 11:54 p.m., that purported to present a cure to “Trump Derangement Symptom.”...

A top White House advisor on AI is looking for the exit after insiders say that Trump admitted people don't recognize him, according to reporting by the Washington Post.

Tech investor Sriram Krishnan told Trump administration officials that he plans to quit his role as the White House senior policy advisor for AI by the end of the month, insiders told the Post.

He's considered the architect of the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, which suggested rolling back regulations and building more data centers, according to the Post. ...

The Pentagon has found itself at odds with a technology firm refusing to give way to demands from Donald Trump's administration.

Pentagon heads made it clear to Anthropic, the artificial intelligence tech firm, that it would need the company to lower its safeguarding measures should it wish to have its tools used by government officials. The tech team has yet to give in to this demand, with chief executive Dario Amodei saying to do so would undermine the defense of the nation.

Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth urged the company to give in to government demands or find their AI no longer in use at the DoD. Amodei replied, "These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request....