Get up to speed on the rapidly evolving world of AI with our roundup of the week’s developments.
According to a sobering New York Times report, Schaake discovered that BlendorBot 3, a conversational chatbot developed as a research project by Meta, had billed her as a terrorist — and not when people asked the chatbot to give them details about her. “AI chatbots also could provide the company with a new wealth of personal information useful for targeting advertisements, Meta’s main revenue source,” CNET reported.