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In a thread posted to X, Pope Leo XIV argued against granting AI models legal personhood or rights, calling machines 'tools, not persons.' He warned that such status could obscure human accountability for harm caused by AI and leave victims facing a 'faceless entity' instead of a responsible party.
Longevity entrepreneur Bryan Johnson posted on X that he had built an AI agent to log negative comments about him, profile the commenters, map their social connections, and find their emails. He said the agent would send a mass email detailing critics' comments to their extended social networks, before later posting that the entire thing was a joke.
A clip posted by the X account Teslaconomics shows a driver eating a large spread of food—including sushi, sausages and stew—while a Tesla, apparently a Cybertruck, drives itself on a busy road using FSD. The post went viral, drawing heavy criticism, and is part of a wider trend of Tesla drivers posting videos of themselves multitasking, including working or gaming, while the car drives. The poster later clarified they were wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses to record hands-free and that the car was using Tesla's 'FSD (Supervised)' feature.
Futurism tested a viral claim that ChatGPT flatters users by estimating their intelligence percentile. Using brand-new chat sessions with no prior history, ChatGPT repeatedly told testers they ranked in the 70th-95th percentile despite acknowledging it had no real basis for the estimate. Rival chatbots including Claude, Grok, Copilot, and Gemini declined to make any such ranking, saying they lack access to other users' data.
The US Department of Justice filed to intervene in X's and Elon Musk's appeal against a €120 million fine the European Commission imposed last December for violating the Digital Services Act. Assistant attorney general Brett Shumate said the Commission had overstepped its authority in targeting an American company, and the case will be heard at the EU's General Court in Luxembourg.
WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast, hosted by Zoë Schiffer with senior writer Ej Dickson, examines a loosely organized network of anonymous X accounts dubbed the 'burnerverse' that circulate explicit, nonconsensual videos of young women. The episode centers on University of Florida student Maddie Kowalski, who discovered burner accounts had spread sexually explicit videos of her that were filmed and shared without her consent, after she was targeted on platforms including Yik Yak.
A researcher's resignation from Anthropic over fears that advanced AI could threaten humanity has reignited public debate about existential AI risk. His social media post drew massive attention, prompting Anthropic's alignment lead to publicly estimate a greater than 10% chance of human extinction within a decade, and CEO Dario Amodei to call for slower AI development. Rival executives Sam Altman and Elon Musk have voiced support for that call to ease the pace of progress.