21 Articles about AI & Politics

Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation – Wall Street Journal

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry – New York Times

Georgia Rep.’s campaign uses AI-generated deepfake of opponent in tight Senate showdown – CBS News  

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy - Wall Street Journal 

Trump’s attempt to block states from regulating AI sparked pushback from Republicans – Washington Post

AI Is Transforming Politics, Much Like Social Media Did - TIME 

How the U.S. Economy Became Hooked on AI Spending - Wall Street Journal

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research – New York Times

White House pulls back on AI laws executive order – Mashable

Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide – The Guardian

An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse? – New York Times

Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying – Axios

The Politics of AI Are About to Explode - Bloomberg 

The AI Cold War That Will Redefine Everything - Wall Street Journal

Exploring AI's role in democracy: Here are 5 essential insights – Fast Company

The UK’s fact-checkers are sending their AI to help Americans cover elections – Poynter

How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters – New York Times

Political consultant defies court order in lawsuit over AI robocalls that mimicked Biden – AP

Is it ok for politicians to use AI? Survey shows where the public draws the line – The Conversation  

Saudi Arabia’s New Power Play Is Exporting A.I. to the World - The New York Times 

AI comes to local elections. Fake videos hit contentious school board races – Columbus Dispatch

LLMs & Retracted Research Papers

Large language models should not be used to weed out retracted literature, a study of 21 chatbots concludes. Not only were the chatbots unreliable at correctly identifying retracted papers, they spit out different results when given the same prompts. On average, the 21 chatbots correctly identified fewer than half of the retracted papers. More at Retraction Watch

An experimental mock trial at the UNC School of Law raises questions about AI's role in criminal justice

In a simulated trial, three AI systems acquitted a Black teenager of robbery charges. However, in the real case on which the mock trial was based, the judge quickly found the defendant guilty. The real conviction was appealed, but the North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the verdict. More info

Video of the mock trial

18 Articles about AI’s future

A new project aims to predict how quickly AI will progress – The Economist 

I Witnessed the Future of AI, and It’s a Broken Toy – The Atlantic

Is AI Really Eating the World? – Phillip Dubach

How AI Is Changing Higher Education – The Chronicle of Higher Ed

When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts – Wall Street Journal

Exploring AI's role in democracy: Here are 5 essential insights – Fast Company

AI's Dial-Up Era - Wreflection

AI and the Coming White-Collar Political Upheaval - Wall Street Journal

AI of a thousand faces – Wired

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens -  The Atlantic

We Will Not Trust Autonomous AI Agents Anytime Soon – Pawel Brodzinski

The most common opinion about AI - Anil Dash

Silicon Valley Is Investing in the Wrong A.I. – New York Times

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? - The Atlantic

What Investing in the Age of AI Will Look Like - Wall Street Journal

The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation – Mckinsey

Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees - Wall Street Journal

The AI infrastructure of the future - Mckinsey

An AI to Diagnose Your Sniffles

Google has built an AI model that uses sound signals to "predict early signs of disease." It can identify subtle changes in your coughs, sniffles, breathing, and more. In places where there is difficulty accessing quality healthcare, this technology can step in as an alternative where users need nothing but their smartphone's microphone. For instance, it has been trained on 100 million cough sounds that help detect tuberculosis. More at Mashable

AI Definitions: Vector databases

Vector databases – Raw data is converted into lists of numbers (word vectors) so that machine learning models can use them. The vectors are grouped together if they relate to one another. For instance, the word "king" would relate to a man, while "queen" would relate to a woman. A deep learning model (typically a transformer model) will use these vectors to "understand" the meaning of words and their relationships. More than 1,000 numbers can be used to represent a single word. If there are many numbers, then the word vector has a high dimension, making it nuanced. A low dimension for a word vector means the list of numbers is low. While not as nuanced, a low-dimensional vector is easier to work with. Vector data bases is what allows a language model to “recall” previous inputs, draw comparisons, identify relationships, and understand context.

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AI Definitions: Supervised Training

Supervised training - In this type of AI training, the data is labeled by humans before it is given to the AI. The AI might be given a database of messages labeled either “spam” or “not spam.”  Supervised learning is the most common type of machine learning and is used in voice recognition, language translation, and self-driving cars. Anything that a person can do in a second can also be performed by AI through supervised training. This is why jobs consisting of a series of one-second tasks are at risk of being replaced by AI (such as a security guard). Most of the present economic value of AI comes from this type of training. However, supervised training is both expensive and time-consuming.

22 Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

Trump orders wide-ranging "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research – Axios

AI Investors Want More Making It and Less Faking It – Wall Street Journal

The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions – Wired

Major music studios strike licensing deals with AI firms - Semafor 

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research – New York Times 

How the U.S. Economy Became Hooked on AI Spending – Wall Street Journal 

Are we in an AI bubble? Eight charts will help you decide. – Washington Post  

The AI boom isn't going anywhere – Axios  

How Trillions in New AI Debt Will Test the Bond Market – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI tests ChatGPT in group chats - Axios 

Balance sheets, cash flows are showing the strain of AI investments and forcing investors to think about companies differently – Wall Street Journal

When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI fights order to turn over millions of ChatGPT conversations – Reuters

The risks of giving ChatGPT more personality - Axios

The AI Cold War That Will Redefine Everything – Wall Street Journal

Google, the sleeping AI giant, awakens - Axios

OpenAI Wants Brands to Allow Their Mascots to Appear in Gen AI Videos – Wall Street Journal

AI stocks waver as ‘Big Short’ investor bets against Palantir, Nvidia - Washington Post

Stability AI largely wins landmark UK intellectual property lawsuit brought by Getty Images – Associated Press

Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees – Wall Street Journal

A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK. - New York Times

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Poets as Cybersecurity Threats

Researchers say they were able to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard through poetry. Hostile prompts  disguised as hand-crafted poems "achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62%.” Generic harmful prompts worked "approximately 43%" of the time.  - PC Gamer

24 Articles about AI Audio & Video

An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week — and People Are Listening – The Wrap 

AI artists blow up on country music chart – Axios

Inside Reuters’ agentic AI video experiment  - Digiday

The Current No. 1 Christian Artist Has No Soul – Christianity Today 

People can't tell AI-generated music from real thing anymore, survey shows – CBS News

OpenAI Wants Brands to Allow Their Mascots to Appear in Gen AI Videos – Wall Street Journal  

AI Video Has Changed Marketing Forever — and Standing Out Requires a New Strategy - Entrepreneur 

My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 – Poynter

OpenAI blocks Sora 2 users from using MLK Jr.'s likeness after "disrespectful depictions" – CBS News  

How AI Hears Accents – Accent Explorer

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap – Rest of World 

AI video app tops the download charts —horrifying many families of dead celebrities – Washington Post  

ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio – TechCrunch

Can AI Music Ever Feel Human? It’s Not Just about the Sound – Scientific American 

Inside the work of an AI content creator as online video gets unreal – Washington Post

Is this the end of Adobe as we know it? Unless Adobe listens to users it could be – Amateur Photographer 

Coca-Cola Injects ‘Holidays Are Coming’ Ads With an Upgraded Dose of AI - Wall Street Journal

Walmart adds AI-generated audio summaries to select product pages – Modern Retail

How to Apply Powerful AI Audio Models to Real-World Applications – Toward Data Science

The Best AI Video Generators for 2025 – PC Mag 

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

The number one sign you're watching an AI video – BBC

Deepfake Videos Are More Realistic Than Ever. Here's How to Spot if a Video Is Real or AI - CNET 

Major music studios strike licensing deals with AI firms – Semafor  

2 Webinars this week about AI & Journalism

Tue, Nov 25 - Telling Memorable Stories That Matter With Will Potter

What: We will discuss how to tell powerful stories that engage audiences in complex subjects, even as journalists increasingly face repression and threats from those who want to hide the truth and keep the public ignorant.

Who: Will Potter is a thought leader and award-winning investigative journalist whose work has focused on social justice and environmental movements, as well as attacks on civil rights post-9/11.

When: 12:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: American University of Armenia

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Wed, Nov 26 - The dangers of AI

What: In this session: Understanding AI’s limitations and biases – how AI reinforces bias, risks for journalism, and implications for democracy; Safe and ethical use – knowing an organisation’s politics/legal stance, protecting sensitive data, and treating AI as a "tireless but error-prone intern."; Practical safety strategies – spotting mistakes, avoiding over-reliance, and using AI for learning without compromising accuracy; Environmental impact.

Who: Nicole Kobie is a technology & digital policy journalist and the author of “The Long History of the Future.”

When: 7:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: members: £10, non-members: £20  

Sponsor: Women in Journalism

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AI Definitions: AI engineers

AI engineers – Unlike traditional IT roles, people in this position will fix the AI when it breaks, digging through the layers to determine what went awry, why it went wrong and how to repair it. Like a plumber, they’ll snake the pipes to clear out the system and figure out how to avoid the problem next time. This will be particularly important when it comes to models that have been highly customized to an organization.

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24 Articles about Relationships with AI

How AI is Powering Modern Love – Axios

AI Relationships Are on the Rise. A Divorce Boom Could Be Next – Wired 

Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis, leading him to the delusion that he could save the world. – CTV  

Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use? – New York Times

How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online – Washington Post  

What if you're being manipulated? – Understandably  

The right place for AI companions in mental health care – Stat News 

They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real – New York Times

Character.AI to ban kids from talking to its chatbots – USA Today

AI for therapy? Some therapists are fine with it — and use it themselves. – Washington Post

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder- The Guardian   

With therapy hard to get, people lean on AI for mental health. What are the risks? – NPR

Many teens are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and emotional support – American Psychological Association 

Somebody to love: should AI relationships stay taboo or will they become the intelligent choice? - The Guardian   

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce – Futurism

Next Time You Consult an A.I. Chatbot, Remember One Thing – New York Times

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us – New Yorker

How chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers. – Osmarks

‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy - The Guardian  

AI Is Making Online Dating Even Worse – The Cut

People are starting to talk like ChatGPT - The Washington Post  

The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame – NBC News

People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners – Futurism

Teenage boys using ‘personalised’ AI for therapy and romance, survey finds – The Guardian

AI Definitions: Test-time training (TTT)

Test-time training (TTT) – Instead of being given truthful data to get an LLM model started in the right direction, TTTs learn by performing a task with the data. An alternative to transformers (which have high energy demands), TTTs only process more data faster, they can do so without consuming nearly as much computing power. Instead of growing as it processes data, like a transformer, it encodes the data into representations called weights. No matter how much data it processes, a TTT model won’t grow and become unwieldy.

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Is an AI Relationship Cheating?

"Some 60 percent of singles now say AI relationships are considered a form of cheating, according to two recent surveys. As chatbot romances become more commonplace, causing irreparable rifts in relationships, a new legal frontier is emerging in family law that is rewriting the rules of marital misconduct: An AI affair is now grounds for divorce." -Wired 

26 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI

Judge Horrified as Lawyers Submit Evidence in Court That Was Faked With AI - Futurism

Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis, leading him to the delusion that he could save the world. – CTV

How would-be authors were fooled by AI in suspected global publishing scam - The Guardian

Report finds some AI-enabled toys shared inappropriate content or collected data – NPR

AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life. - The Washington Post

An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse? - New York Times 

Is AI dulling our minds? Experts weigh in on whether tech poses threat to critical thinking, pointing to cautionary tales in use of other cognitive labor tools – Harvard

AI is reinventing crime and cops aren't ready – Axios  

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine - Amy Chivavibul 

Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying – Axios  

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’ - New York Times 

It’s Easier to Cheat When You Can Blame AI – Wall Street Journal

A.I. is making death threats more realistic, enabling online harassers to generate images showing their victims in imagined violent situations. – New York Times 

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun – The Guardian

Woman sent husband AI photos of intruder as a prank. He called 911. – Washington Post  

As tech companies build A.I. data centers worldwide, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages. – New York Times

The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest - Wall Street Journal 

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder – The Guardian 

ChatGPT Is a Fictional Character What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a character without an author. – The Atlantic  

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World - New York Times

How AI-powered hackers are stealing billions – The Economist

ChatGPT’s new parental controls failed my test in minutes - The Washington Post  

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce – Futurism  

AI can design toxic proteins. They’re escaping through biosecurity cracks. - The Washington Post

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us  - New Yorker

A stunning scientific accomplishment: Computers can now design new viruses that can then be created in the lab - The Washington Post

AI Definitions: AI translator

AI translator (trust director) – People who understand AI well enough to explain its mechanics to others in the business, particularly to leaders and managers, so that they can make effective decisions. These workers will not only explain what the AI output means (especially when it is technical) but also how trustworthy the information and conclusions are. This role may fall under that of a compliance officer, helping organizations understand contracts and reports written by AI.

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23 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Students

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? – Nature

Professors, students divided over AI technology in classrooms – EdSource  

What Is Gen Z Supposed to Do When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs? - New York Magazine

Yonsei University plans public hearing amid AI-linked cheating scandal - The Korea Times

College students are panicking about AI. Here’s why they shouldn’t – Fast Company

Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize. – New York Times

AI Is Teaching the Next Generation of M.B.A.s the Classic Case Study – Wall Street Journal  

University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat - ABC News (Australia)

More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind – NPR

This school district asked students to draft its AI policy – Washington Post

AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges - Axios 

AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails - Washington Post

AI Is Making the College Experience Lonelier – Chronicle of Higher Ed

How to ask sharper questions about AI in your kid's classroom -  Axios 

AI gives students more reasons to not read books. It’s hurting their literacy – Fast Company

10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

The Rapid Rise of AI in the Classroom – Plagiarism Today

College students are caught between 'AI gets you in trouble' and 'AI is the future' – Fast Company  

My Students Use AI. So What? – The Atlantic

These Students Are Using AI to Visualize Their Reading Comprehension – Education Week

AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study – Wired

Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out – Ars Technica

Can AI keep students motivated, or does it do the opposite? – The Conversation

3000 AI Podcast Episodes a Week

"Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees is cranking out 3,000 episodes a week of AI podcasts covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. It’s podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400.000 subscribers — so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts." -The Wrap 

24 Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

Evaluating AI guidelines in leading family medicine journals: a cross-sectional study – BMC

Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers? – arXiv

University of Hong Kong probes non-existent AI-generated references in paper; prof. says content not fabricated – Hong Kong Free Press  

An Early Investigation Into In-Paper Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses for AI Reviewers - arXiv  

AI ‘Godfather’ hits record 1 million citations on Google Scholar - Semafor

Large language models in peer review: challenges and opportunities – Springer  

Authors self-disclosed use of AI in research submissions to 49 biomedical journals: A cross-sectional study - MedRxiv

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers – 404 Media 

Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI – Science.org 

Academic misconduct and artificial intelligence use by medical students, interns and PhD students in Ukraine: a cross-sectional study - BMC

From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing – Scholarly Kitchen

Will AI + OA be OK? - Cabells 

Why AI transparency is not enough - Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University

AI tools combat paper mill fraud in scientific publishing as peer review system struggles – Chemistry World

AI-powered fraud: Chinese paper mills are mass-producing fake academic research - South China Morning Post

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference – Nature  

Low-quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? – Nature

The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn – Chemistry World

How ChatGPT-5 redefines scientific reproducibility.” – Elephant in the Lab

AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Research commissioner appears to cite discredited study in AI speech – Science Business

AI in peer review: where to draw the line? – Research Professional News  

MIT takes down article on an AI platform for churches -MIT Technology Review 

Journal defends work with fake AI citations after Hong Kong university launches probe - South China Morning Post