ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns
OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. …
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Florida is suing OpenAI over user safety concerns.
… Link: Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety | https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/florida-sues-openai-sam-altman-saying-put-profit-safety-rcna347602 | NBC News
Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs
… Last April, OpenAI rolled back an update to its GPT-4o model after finding that it can be “overly flattering or agreeable.” The company has also attempted to address safety concerns by updating ChatGPT to better detect mental or emotional distress, adding parental controls, and allowing users to ad… …
The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world
… While PauseAI says it “unequivocally condemns this attack and all forms of violence, intimidation and harassment,” it also called out that “a handful of commentators have seized on this incident to paint the broader movement for AI safety as dangerous or extremist.” PauseAI organizes protests and t… …
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth
… There is no federal statute protecting AI company employees who disclose these kinds of safety concerns that are being aired in this piece. We have cases where Jan Leike, who was a senior safety guy at OpenAI, was leading super alignment at the company. …
Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
… It turned out that the impetus had allegedly been a pattern of lying or omission by Altman, whether about OpenAI’s safety processes, about his own ownership stake in OpenAI’s startup fund, or about the release of certain tools or features like ChatGPT. …
Vibe-decoding the White House-Anthropic fight over Fable
… One party tells The New York Times that Amazon had found a way to “jailbreak” the safety guardrails preventing users from using Fable for cyberattacks. A second party countered to the Times that one could achieve the same results with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5. …
How to win — and lose — Decoder
… There are labor concerns with Uber. There are safety concerns with Uber. …
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
… But the reason I became an AI reporter is because I felt like there was no real regulation in the space, and this was even before ChatGPT. …