Politics
We Are Still Underreacting on AI - Pete Buttigieg
In short: the terms of what it is like to be a human are about to change in ways that rival the transformations of the Enlightenment or the Industrial Revolution, only much more quickly.
Army Launches Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps to Drive Tech Transformation
The U.S. Army is establishing Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps, a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation. On June 13, 2025, the Army will officially swear in four tech leaders.
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why
A few days ago, in response to a complaint from an influential conservative X user “@catturd” about Grok’s supposed liberal or left-leaning political bias, Musk stated his goal of creating a new version of Grok that would rely less on mainstream media sources.
In fact, Musk proposed on June 21st in an X post that he would use a forthcoming updated version of Grok (3.5 or 4) to “write the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. He then accused other AI models of having “far too much garbage.”
Trump administration’s whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
The initiative includes a chatbot, a unified API for accessing models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others (some lacking FedRAMP certification), and a tool called “CONSOLE” to monitor agency AI usage in real time.
Industry News
The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said humanity is only years away from developing artificial general intelligence. “The OpenAI Files,” an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, are a “collection of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.”
Beyond raising awareness, the goal of the Files is to propose a path forward for OpenAI and other AI leaders that focuses on responsible governance, ethical leadership, and shared benefits.
OpenAI’s Game-Changing Move: o3-pro Launch and o3 80% Price Drop
OpenAIs o3 is now 80% cheaper. Article is AI slop. News is nice, forces Gemini to catch up in terms of pricing.
The Dream of an AI Scientist is Closer than Ever
The number of scientific papers relying on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle expands by the day.
Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors
The US district judge Vince Chhabria, in San Francisco, said in his decision on the Meta case that the authors had not presented enough evidence that the technology company’s AI would cause “market dilution” by flooding the market with work similar to theirs. As a consequence Meta’s use of their work was judged a “fair use” – a legal doctrine that allows use of copyright protected work without permission – and no copyright liability applied.
Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team
Zuckerberg has gone on a hiring and poaching spree as he has been offering huge compensation to the top talent from other AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.
Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors’ copyright lawsuit
- Judge says Anthropic made fair use of books to train AI
- Fair use is key defense for tech companies in AI copyright cases
- Judge also says pirating authors’ books could not be justified
Society
People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions
What these bots are saying is worsening delusions, and it’s causing enormous harm.
Using AI makes you stupid, researchers find
A study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon, published in February, found that workers reported lower levels of critical thinking when relying on AI. The authors warned that overuse of AI could leave cognitive muscles “atrophied and unprepared” for when they are needed.
A.I. is Homogenizing our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”
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.
The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what’s being called “ChatGPT psychosis” have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness.
