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The Atlantic Gift Article: What happens when AI can hack everything? – “For the past several weeks, Anthropic says it secretly possessed a tool potentially capable of commandeering most computer servers in the world. This is a bot that, if unleashed, might be able to hack into banks, exfiltrate state secrets, and fry crucial infrastructure. …
E-Discovery LLC: “Hallucinations” by West and Lexis AI? A Cautionary Study and Cautions About the Study, Michael Berman – This post is a follow up to “Hallucinations” by West’s CoCounsel? (Apr. 7, 2026). In U.S. v. Farris, __ F. 4th __, 2026 WL 915082, at *1 (6th Cir. Apr. 3, 2026) (per curiam), the court found errors in …
“Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community” advocates for libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) to take proactive and pragmatic steps to ensure that digital collections content, especially content …
“AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. – At Stanford HAI, we believe AI is poised to be the most transformative technology of the 21st century. But its benefits won’t be evenly distributed unless we guide its development thoughtfully. The AI Index offers one of the most comprehensive, data-driven views of artificial intelligence. …
FT.com – no paywall: “Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of Mark Zuckerberg that can engage with employees in his stead, as part of a broader push to remake the Big Tech company around AI. The $1.6tn group has been working on developing photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters that users can interact with in real …
Wired [no paywall] – “This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under …
We completed the most comprehensive study of how economists and AI experts think AI will affect the U.S. economy. Forecasting Research Institute. Mar 31, 2026. “There is widespread disagreement over the impact that AI will—or won’t—have on the U.S. economy: some prominent voices warn of a transformative upheaval and large-scale job losses, while others predict …
Washington Post via MSN: “Anthropic recently “hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world” for a two-day summit: Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered …
“Hallucinations” by West and Lexis AI? A Cautionary Study and Cautions About the Study, Michael Berman – “This post is a follow up to “Hallucinations” by West’s CoCounsel? (Apr. 7, 2026). In U.S. v. Farris, __ F. 4th __, 2026 WL 915082, at *1 (6th Cir. Apr. 3, 2026) (per curiam), the court found errors in a …
“We built OSINT Navigator to make it easier for investigators and researchers to find the right tools for the job — and discover tools they didn’t know existed. Navigator allows you to enter a question like “How do I find the owner of a website?” or “How do I research a YouTube video?” and receive …
Washington Post [no paywall] Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight. Members of the U.S. DOGE Service spoke regularly over Signal, the encrypted chat service that can auto-delete messages. They were informally recruited by people they knew. And …
Ars Technica: “Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs …
