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India’s A.I. Summit Disaster Features Snubs, Billionaire Bails, and Chinese Robot Cheating

India sought to make a splash in the world’s fastest-growing tech industry this week by hosting an A.I. Impact Summit in New Delhi, with a who’s-who of industry leaders and artificial intelligence visionaries on the guest list. The summit was a public-relations disaster, because the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi evidently underestimated how much rivalry and personal animosity exists in the A.I. world.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) takes a group photo with AI company leaders

Anthropic Study: AI Models Are Highly Vulnerable to ‘Poisoning’ Attacks

A recent study by Anthropic AI, in collaboration with several academic institutions, has uncovered a startling vulnerability in AI language models, showing that it takes a mere 250 malicious documents to completely disrupt their output. Purposefully feeding malicious data into AI models is ominously referred to as a “poisoning attack.”

bottle of poison

Lawsuit: Anthropic Has Been Harvesting Reddit User Posts to Train AI

Reddit, the popular social media platform, has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, alleging breach of contract and unfair business practices. The self-described “frontpage of the internet,” a notorious left-wing echo chamber, claims Anthropic has been vacuuming up user posts to train its AI systems.

A robot spies on human activity