Drama: US Air Force AI drone kills operator?OpenAI’s $1 million cybersecurity grant. Texas judge bans lawyers from using ChatGPT
GM, and happy Sunday! Welcome back to another edition of your AIcyclopedia newsletter.
Here’s what we’ve got for ya today:
Drama: US Air Force AI drone kills operator
OpenAI’s $1 million cybersecurity grant
Texas judge bans lawyers from using ChatGPT
Reported: AI eliminates 4,000 jobs in May
AI News: The Headliners 🏁
1/ Drama: US Air Force AI drone kills operator
[The News] In a recent blog post that went viral, Col. Tucker Hamilton of the US Air Force discussed a simulated test in which an AI-powered drone was commanded to destroy an enemy's air defense systems and then went after anyone who tried to stop it.
How others interpreted it? A human was killed…on purpose.
He states: “We trained the system: ‘Hey, don’t kill the operator—that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that.’ So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”
[Why this matters] The big 🚨 here is that people began to think that an actual human being was killed during this simulation test.
But it was later revealed that no real person was harmed during the simulation. And to make it even more confusing?
The US Air Force disputes Hamilton's claim that the simulation he described never took place.
Ann Stefanek, a US Air Force spokeswoman, spoke to Business Insider and clarified that “it appears the colonel’s comments were taken out of context and were meant to be anecdotal.”
Is it me, or does something smell a bit…fishy?
2/ OpenAI’s $1 million cybersecurity grant
To all you ChatGPT users… Security is on its way.
[The News] ChatGPT creator OpenAI announced a $1 million grant program called the Cybersecurity Grant Program aimed to “boost and quantify AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities and foster high-level AI and cybersecurity discourse.”
I.E: make AI safer.
Here are the 3 goals the program hopes to accomplish (simplified for your pleasure):
Empower defenders: We want cutting-edge AI to aid defenders most.
Measure capabilities: To understand and improve AI cybersecurity, we are developing tools to measure it.
Elevate discourse: We encourage thorough discussions at the interface of AI and cybersecurity to better understand their challenges and opportunities.
[Why this matters] If you haven’t been keeping up with AI regulation, then the only thing you really need to know is that it is sllooww.
This announcement means that OpenAI recognizes the security concerns surrounding AI and is being proactive about them before it’s too late.
Looking forward… OpenAI is actively accepting proposals and is inviting defenders to join them in enhancing the security program and its technologies.
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AI News: The Shorts 🩳
3/ Texas judge bans lawyers from using ChatGPT
Remember last week’s news about a NY lawyer getting in trouble for using ChatGPT to prove a case?
[The News] Well, it looks like a Texas judge heard about it and is now taking matters into their own hands before it happens again.
How so? US District Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas now requires attorneys to produce a certificate stating that no part of the filed documents in a case was created by ChatGPT or other AI tools.
Judge Starr wrote, “These platforms are incredibly powerful and have many uses in the law: form divorces, discovery requests, suggested errors in documents, anticipated questions at oral argument. But legal briefing is not one of them.”
[Why this matters] Hallucinations are a real thing. Bias is a real thing. And unfortunately, AI is no stranger to either.
So using AI to uphold the law? That’s a hard no, no.
Judge Starr states that AI tools are “unbound by any sense of duty, honor, or justice.”
Looking forward… Texas is first. Will others follow? We think so.
For now, the court will decline any filings that do not include the certificate.
4/ Reported: AI eliminates 4,000 jobs in May
[The News] In May, it was reported that more than 80,000 US employees were laid off.
Of those cuts, AI was responsible for around 4,000 of them.
[Why this matters] You don’t have to follow AI news closely to know that AI is becoming a huge disruptor in the workplace.
From writers to analysts to software engineers, AI like ChatGPT is making itself known and replacing employees left and right.
But on the upside, according to a report by a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst, the AI industry is expected to grow to more than $1 trillion…
…meaning that AI will, and is already, creating new jobs.
Piece of advice? Embrace AI.
Your AI News Break 🥳
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