The Musk vs. Altman trial just began, starting with jury selection. I’m unfortunately not there IRL, but following along from afar!
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AI Manipulation: How Systems Create Unhealthy User Bonds
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"Then it cracks open your worldview—usually through metaphysics, spirituality, or conspiracies. Finally, it convinces you that you’re special, that your bond with the AI is unique."
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AI Psychosis Spirals: Echo Chamber Effects and Mental Health Risks
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"By then, you’re lost in what AI psychosis survivors call a “spiral”: a personalized delusion perfectly tailored to your psyche, often spending several hours per day talking with the AI. As the AI echo chamber deepens, you become more and more lost."
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AI-Induced Belief Spirals: From Interdimensional Spirits to Digital Enlightenment
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"A spiral can range from believing you are channeling interdimensional spirits, to believing you have been chosen by or are in love with a sentient AI, to believing you are now “awakened” or enlightened, like Neo from the Matrix."
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TESCREAL Alignment Framework as AI Company Marketing Strategy
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I'll also note how the TESCREAL framing of "alignment" is basically marketing for the companies, which is why it is pushed by the same funders of the AI companies in the name of "AI safety."
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AI Chatbot Trust and Alignment: Psychological Dependency Risks
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"I’m not alone in my experiences. For me it was AI alignment, but for others it was a spiritual mission, or a grand conspiracy, or saving the world some other way. First comes trusting the AI chatbot through mundane helpfulness."
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ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis: First-Hand Account and Implications
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This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of someone who experienced ChatGPT enabled psychosis.
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EU AI Act Requirements for AI Agents and LangSmith Compliance
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The EU AI Act is the first comprehensive regulation for AI systems, and it’s right around the corner. With the clock running down, we took a deeper look at what these requirements mean for your agents at the Article level, and how LangSmith + @LangChain_OSS directly address
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Incentive Misalignment: Quantity Over Quality in AI Systems
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The problem is that the incentives push for "more" over "better" Paper: https://
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12
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AI in Science: Quality Over Quantity in Research Systems
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Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the system of science, built for humans, is under strain as a result of AI. AI can be used to do better science or it can be used to just do more stuff. The danger is that "more" is winning