Yale Law Scholar Suspended After AI Calls Her a Terrorist

Since the first publicly available large language model (LLM) ChatGPT hit the scene in November of 2022, the tech has exploded. AI has infested search engines, social media platforms, customer service portals, job interviews, and news articles. Despite being marketed as "artificial intelligence," LLMs are decidedly not intelligent on their own, but rather crafty algorithms made to look smart, thanks to clever engineering and no small amount of your data. Evidently that's a lesson Yale administrators have yet to learn, as demonstrated by the suspension of international law scholar Helyeh Doutaghi last week based on the whims of an LLM. Doutaghi, an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights, began her job as deputy director of Yale's Law and Political Economy project in 2023. Her work was cut short when the university's admin banned her from campus and put her on administrative leave, following accusations that she was a "terrorist" by Jewish Onliner, a far-right blog that describes it ... Read full article.