AI Reading for Friday April 4
"Hard science fiction" on what might happen if supersmart AI is actually possible soon - AI 2027
A.I. Futures Project predicts a bumpy ride - NY Times
Most people say AI will make things worse, despite experts saying AI will make things better - Pew Research Center
How freelance red-teamers write harmful prompts asking AI to do bad stuff - Business Insider
Google shipped its latest Gemini models without safety reports - TechCrunch
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Plus free to college students for finals - VentureBeat
Why did ChatGPT go down? 700M AI images made by 130M users - BGR
When is bias fair, and variance unfair? - FT
Amazon predicts a $700 million financial gain from its AI shopping assistant Rufus - Business Insider
Amazon testing an agent that will buy products for you on 3rd-party websites. - The Verge
Anchorage Police Department ditches AI police reports, says they don't save time or improve quality - Techdirt
What if AI ends up making our brains lazy and weak? - WSJ
Runway AI raises 4308M at $3b valuation for text to video - SiliconANGLE
Yann LeCun, a legend in AI, talks about alternatives to LLMs - Newsweek
Devin gets a $20/month plan to compete with GitHub Copilot and others. - TechCrunch
it's silly and brain-damaged and harmful to view agents and robots as part of the workforce as opposed to systems and tools used by humans. don't anthropomorphize agents! they hate it when you do that
Trump’s bad tariff math looks suspiciously like ChatGPT’s - The Verge
Was Trump's tariff formula generated by AI? - Decrypt
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