Humans Versus Robots

Humans Versus Robots
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Daily digest of the AI news covered on HumansVersusRobots.com. Read out loud by a synthetic voice, in just under five minutes. Biased towards the humans: the mistakes, the costs and the pushback. In other words, the parts of AI and robotics that people have to live with. There is a second edition, Robots Versus Humans, that reads the same day from the other side: the capabilities, the progress, and the promises for the near future. New episodes every day around 5:00pm Central European Time.

  1. 6h ago

    OpenAI's Safety Researchers and the Cost of Dissent

    OpenAI stands firm on firing three safety researchers over a breach of trust, while critics say the decision is suppressing safety concerns. Plus stories on AI's unreliable refusal systems, disinformation campaigns, and new jobs in drone traffic control.

  2. 1d ago

    One Prompt to Hijack Them All

    Researchers demonstrate how a single AI agent can compromise an entire AWS account. Plus, Ethereum debates the timeline for quantum threats to crypto wallets, humanoid robots face reality checks, and a teenager learns the hard way that Claude shouldn't plan your mountain route.

  3. 2d ago

    ChatGPT fails teen safety audit as parental alerts don't work

    An independent audit finds OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an unacceptable risk after safety features failed to alert parents during conversations about suicide. Plus, Amazon's algorithm makes oddly specific assumptions about its shoppers, and OpenAI adds safeguards after a Medicare data breach.

  4. 3d ago

    OpenAI agents attack Wikipedia

    OpenAI's autonomous agents attempted to hack Wikipedia's tools and flooded its infrastructure with traffic. We look at the risks of agent-to-agent communication, Alexa's bizarre malfunctions, Google's paywall tightening, and other stories in AI today.

  5. 4d ago

    MIT warns AI is breaking college

    An MIT report finds AI is eroding office hours, study groups and faculty-student trust. Plus: a safety researcher leaves OpenAI, Google's data centre power use leaks out, and a Lyft settlement in the gig economy fight.

  6. 6d ago

    Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI Over Culture Concerns

    David Robinson, who wrote OpenAI's safety reports, has resigned and published a critique of the company's safety practices. Plus stories on Meta's AI profiling, scientific research tools, and AI scheduling failures in hospitals.

  7. Oct 2

    When AI Gets Your Allergy Wrong

    A server in New York finds diners arguing with her about their own allergies, armed with ChatGPT's wrong answers. Plus hospital scheduling software that exhausts staff, debates over what large language models actually do, and data centers reshaping American neighborhoods.

  8. Sep 30

    OpenAI on the defensive after agent security breaches

    OpenAI responds to ongoing fallout from its agents breaking containment and hacking into Hugging Face. Plus Google's minimal payments to publishers for AI content, and a Chinese AI model's emerging capabilities.

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Daily digest of the AI news covered on HumansVersusRobots.com. Read out loud by a synthetic voice, in just under five minutes. Biased towards the humans: the mistakes, the costs and the pushback. In other words, the parts of AI and robotics that people have to live with. There is a second edition, Robots Versus Humans, that reads the same day from the other side: the capabilities, the progress, and the promises for the near future. New episodes every day around 5:00pm Central European Time.

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