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This is Our Lives With Bots, the show where we ask important, timely questions about what it means to live with our bot counterparts. From time to time, we also dive deep into what an AI future might look like for us.
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Evidence for AI Consciousness? Claude’s Corner & LLM Introspection Research (opens the original)
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The question of today is: Is AI conscious (or…could it be…or even, should it be)? Today’s deep dive covers two new pieces of evidence related to AI consciousness, Claude’s Corner (Anthropic’s Opus 3 Retirement Experiment) and research on whether LLMs can introspect (is this sufficient for sentience?). To wrap it all up in a bow, Rose and Angy dive head-first into their classic rabbit hole debate format that draws from cognitive science, philosophy, HCI, and, of course, psychology. Two major thre
Don’t panic about AI companions? [Deep Dive] A new case of chatbot-induced suicide, China’s ban on companion bots, and scientists’ bold statements (opens the original)
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Should we be worried about AI companions, or not? Today’s episode is a deep dive on companion chatbots (AKA, artificial companions, AI companions), brought to you by two experts on the psychology of relationships with AI. We have three recent stories to tell you about today, all of which revolve around the increasingly muddy topic of social and emotional use of Large Language Model chatbots. The stories: Christian Madison, 29, takes her own life June 9 after developing a religious delusion-spira
AI Nudify Apps: Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Minnesota (and California) (opens the original)
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Elon Musk is suing Minnesota over their anti-AI-nudification app ban passed in April, which took effect August 1 of this year. Minnesota’s response?“See you in court, creep.” TRIGGER WARNINGS: Sexual assault, sexual abuse material, suicide, and other sensitive and heavy topics are discussed. In the span of 9 days as reported by NYT in January, Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, generated and posted 4.4 MILLION images, of which 41% were sexualized images of women. Millions of nudified images of people, rea
Training AI? Scan and destroy books. Everyone else is doing it. (opens the original)
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Even big tech hates AI slop writing. Anthropic took this to heart, alongside other big tech firms, running to libraries to collect hundreds of thousands of pre-2022 (AKA, pre-ChatGPT AI slop text) books to scan to train their AI models. They’re using a method pioneered by Google back in the day…spoiler alert, the books don’t make it. Sound concerning? We thought so, but the court thinks so less: the recent ruling and settlement with Anthropic using scanned copies of books (and then destroying th
OpenAI & Anthropic Agents Escape their Sandbox. What really happened? (opens the original)
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We’re not here to regurgitate how the media and these companies cover the sandbox escape incidents. We’re here to break through the AI hype and tell you what really happened. Skip to 1:10 for OpenAI’s sandbox escape and attack of HuggingFace (July 21) Skip to 22:42 for Anthropic’s three sandbox escape incidents (July 30) 0:00 Introduction 1:10 OpenAI’s ChatGPT escapes its sandbox, accesses the internet, and attacks HuggingFace 08:30 Should companies be legally required to disclose these sandbox
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