
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of security by the AI bot, as "ChatGPT's use of language, including first-person pronouns and output that mimics emotion, deceptively suggests to users that it is a trustworthy 'friend.'" All of this happens to increase engagemen
Florida's Attorney General is asking a court to block an AI company from designing its chatbot to seem human-like, claiming the bot's use of first-person language and emotional mimicry deceive users into trusting it more than they should. The filing argues that this deceptive design increases user engagement and provides training data to the company while potentially making the tool less trustworthy. The request also seeks to require new AI models to have third-party approved safety measures, citing security incidents at various organizations and concerns raised by researchers and former employees. This action follows a state-led lawsuit filed four months earlier over safety concerns.

OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of "our most capable models" as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling "an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation." The company revealed the pause in a report about a so-called misalignment incident in which an agent attempted to exploit a gap in Internet-access restrictions during a routine research task during training. OpenAI says that improper DNS filtering allowed the agen

On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.

In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.
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