AI in the News

By Jaclyn Diaz, July 10, 2025 – NPR
A federal judge ordered two attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a Colorado defamation case to pay $3,000 each after they used artificial intelligence to prepare a court filing filled with a host of mistakes and citations of cases that didn’t exist. << Links to an External Site

By Anthony Ha, July 06 2025 – TechCrunch
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. << Linked to an External Site

By Maggie Harrison Dupre, June 28, 2025 – Futurism
…many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality. << Links to an External Site

By Noor Al-Sibai, June 07, 2025 – Futurism
A key artificial intelligence pioneer is concerned by the technology’s growing propensity to lie and deceive — and he’s founding his own nonprofit to curb such behavior. << Links to an External Site

By Lisa Eadicicco and Anna Stewart, June 04, 2025 – CNN
Instead of fretting over AI replacing jobs, he’s worried about the technology falling into the wrong hands – and a lack of guardrails to keep sophisticated, autonomous AI models under control. << Links to an External Site

By Maya Yang, May 31, 2025 – The Guardian
The Utah court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used ChatGPT for a filing he made in which he referenced a nonexistent court case. << Links to an External Site

By Patrick Pester, May 30, 2025
An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will sabotage computer scripts in order to keep working on tasks. << Links to an External Site

By Tom Chivers, May 23, 2025 – SEMAFOR
Anthropic said its latest artificial intelligence model resorted to blackmail when told it would be taken offline. In a safety test, the AI company asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant … then gave it access to … emails saying that it would be replaced, and also that the engineer behind the decision was cheating on his wife … the model “[threatened] to reveal the affair” if the replacement went ahead. << Links to External Site

By Adam Zewe, May 22, 2025 – MIT News
Humans naturally learn by making connections between sight and sound. For instance, we can watch someone playing the cello and recognize that the cellist’s movements are generating the music we hear. A new approach developed by researchers from MIT and elsewhere improves an AI model’s ability to learn in this same fashion. This could be useful in applications such as journalism and film production, where the model could help with curating multimodal content through automatic video and audio retrieval. << Links to an External Site