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Trump rescinds Biden’s executive order on “safe, secure, and trustworthy” AI

In his first batch of executive orders, President Trump rescinded Biden’s sweeping 2023 executive order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.”

The press release announcing the revocation of the order, along with dozens of other Biden memoranda and orders, said:

“To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen. The revocations within this order will be the first of many steps the United States Federal Government will take to repair our institutions and our economy.”

Trump has promised to keep the AI industry free of regulations, and has made American domination of the technology a priority. The presence of OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Tesla’s Elon Musk on the dais at the inauguration in the US Capitol rotunda yesterday was a visible signal of the heightened role that Big Tech companies might have in this administration.

The most significant change that will come from the reversal of Biden’s order is the elimination of the requirement for the developers of very large, powerful models to share the results of safety tests with government regulators and grant access to those models before releasing them to the public.

Trump revokes Biden executive order on addressing AI risks

Trump revokes Biden executive order on addressing AI risks

“To commence the policies that will make our Nation united, fair, safe, and prosperous again, it is the policy of the United States to restore common sense to the Federal Government and unleash the potential of the American citizen. The revocations within this order will be the first of many steps the United States Federal Government will take to repair our institutions and our economy.”

Trump has promised to keep the AI industry free of regulations, and has made American domination of the technology a priority. The presence of OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Tesla’s Elon Musk on the dais at the inauguration in the US Capitol rotunda yesterday was a visible signal of the heightened role that Big Tech companies might have in this administration.

The most significant change that will come from the reversal of Biden’s order is the elimination of the requirement for the developers of very large, powerful models to share the results of safety tests with government regulators and grant access to those models before releasing them to the public.

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Reading an article online? It’s now a coin flip whether it was authored by a human or AI

Not this one, though.

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Google’s Waymo plans to launch autonomous rides in London next year

This marks the company’s second international expansion after Tokyo.

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Salesforce is using AI to to handle customer service, and it’s saving the company $100 million per year, CEO Marc Benioff said at the company’s Dreamforce conference, per Bloomberg reporting. Benioff also announced that 12,000 customers are using its “Agentforce” AI-driven customer service platform.

$100 million seems impressive, but to put that number in perspective, last quarter, the company reported over $10 billion in revenue.

Benioff has enthusiastically embraced the use of AI and has slashed thousands of positions as the company automates roles.

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Sam Altman says OpenAI fixed ChatGPT’s serious mental health issues in just a month. Anyway, here comes the erotica

Well that was quick. Just over a month ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a 120-day plan to roll out new protections for identifying and helping ChatGPT users who are suffering a mental health crisis, after a series of reports brought attention to such users harming themselves and others after using the company’s AI chatbot.

Today, Altman says the company has built new tools to address these issues and “mitigated” these problems.

Altman is so confident that they’ve addressed mental health safety that the company is reverting ChatGPT’s behavior so it “behaves more like what people liked about 4o.” Altman essentially apologized to users for the changes that were made to address mental health problems that arose with use of the chatbot:

“We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.”

Separately, the company announced the members of its Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, an eight-person council of mental health experts.

As a reward for the adults who aren’t suffering mental health issues exacerbated by confiding in the chatbot, Altman says that erotica is on the way.

“In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”

In response to Altman’s post on X, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley quoted Altman’s post with this message:

“You made ChatGPT ‘pretty restrictive’? Really. Is that why it has been recommending kids harm and kill themselves?”

Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. " / X

Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have" / X

Altman is so confident that they’ve addressed mental health safety that the company is reverting ChatGPT’s behavior so it “behaves more like what people liked about 4o.” Altman essentially apologized to users for the changes that were made to address mental health problems that arose with use of the chatbot:

“We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.”

Separately, the company announced the members of its Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, an eight-person council of mental health experts.

As a reward for the adults who aren’t suffering mental health issues exacerbated by confiding in the chatbot, Altman says that erotica is on the way.

“In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”

In response to Altman’s post on X, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley quoted Altman’s post with this message:

“You made ChatGPT ‘pretty restrictive’? Really. Is that why it has been recommending kids harm and kill themselves?”

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Meta says Instagram teen accounts will default to a PG-13 content limit

Meta is introducing new guidelines for the content on Instagram teen accounts. The company is turning to the well-known PG-13 standard from the Motion Picture Association, used by the film industry.

Any user under the age of 18 will have their content limited to PG-13.

Parents who administer their child’s teen account will have the ability to change the settings — including placing their child in a more restrictive level than PG-13 — but that assumes the teen hasn’t just tried to sign up on their own using a fake birthday.

To counter those wily kids, Instagram will use “age prediction technology” to set content restrictions, according to the company.

In a blog post announcing the new policy, Meta acknowledged the new settings may not catch all prohibited content:

“Just like you might see some suggestive content or hear some strong language in a PG-13 movie, teens may occasionally see something like that on Instagram — but we’re going to keep doing all we can to keep those instances as rare as possible.”

New PG-13 Guidelines for Instagram Teen Accounts | Meta

New PG-13 Guidelines for Instagram Teen Accounts | Meta

Parents who administer their child’s teen account will have the ability to change the settings — including placing their child in a more restrictive level than PG-13 — but that assumes the teen hasn’t just tried to sign up on their own using a fake birthday.

To counter those wily kids, Instagram will use “age prediction technology” to set content restrictions, according to the company.

In a blog post announcing the new policy, Meta acknowledged the new settings may not catch all prohibited content:

“Just like you might see some suggestive content or hear some strong language in a PG-13 movie, teens may occasionally see something like that on Instagram — but we’re going to keep doing all we can to keep those instances as rare as possible.”

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