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Scale.com: “AI models are now being used in more high-stakes settings, and not every situation goes according to plan. When a model’s safe approach starts to fail, will it stay on the safe path or reach for a harmful shortcut that works instead? Understanding how models behave in those pressure moments is one of the …
Popular Information: “One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters. Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days …
No Thoughts Just AI: Biased LLM Hiring Recommendations Alter Human Decision Making and Limit Human Autonomy. Kyra Wilson, Mattea Sim, Anna-Maria Gueorguieva1, Aylin Caliskan. Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES2025): “Despite bias in artificial intelligence (AI) being a risk of their use in hiring systems, there is no large-scale …
Bloomberg – no paywall: AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures. “Recipe bloggers say AI-generated summaries and recipes are distorting how people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses and potentially ruining holiday dinners. …
MIT Technology Review: “Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry…”
The Verge – Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. “The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it…The common feature cutting across chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and whatever Meta is calling its AI product this week are that they are all primarily “large language models.” Fundamentally, …
ArXiv – Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models. “We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to …
GO.gov will serve as a single travel management solution for all civilian Federal agencies, providing a more intuitive experience for booking federal travel and better access to commercially available features like charge card integration and a mobile interface. GO.gov will start rolling out to agencies in phases, beginning with early adopters in November 2025.
Follow up to post – We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate – See also the new Epstein Files Search – powered by Justice for All Victims: Search Tags for Files, Images, People, Organizations, Countries. See also via Journalist Studio – Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found. You …
Use Of Open Source Information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. November 20, 2025. Prefatory Note – “This is an unclassified version of a comprehensive report by the staff of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (“PCLOB”) on the use of open source information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”). All PCLOB oversight …
“Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping how people are hired, yet few understand how these systems actually work. A new project from Sloane Lab at the University of Virginia School of Data Science and College of Arts and Sciences aims to change that. On November 6, the Talent Acquisition and Recruiting AI (TARAI) Index—a first-of-its-kind, public, …
USA Facts – Nearly 25% of flights did not arrive on-time from April to June of 2025: “As of late September 2025, an average of more than 2.4 million people on average were clearing security in American airports every day. That figure is about 9% higher than the number of passengers in September 2019, the …
