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OpenAI Plans to Make ChatGPT More Humanlike. What Could Go Wrong?

A lot happened this week. The Opinion editor of The New York Times, Kathleen Kingsbury, highlights one thing you shouldn’t miss: OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, announced that the company’s new version of ChatGPT will have a more “humanlike” personality — and even offer erotica for verified adults. Watch Kingsbury explain why more regulation of A.I. chatbots is needed.

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.

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Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s chief executive, surprised many San Franciscans when he said he “fully supports” President Trump and invited the National Guard to San Francisco.

Venture Capitalist Ron Conway Resigns From Board Over Benioff National Guard Comments

Ron Conway stepped down from the board of Salesforce’s philanthropic arm after the company’s chief executive, Marc Benioff, said he supported President Trump and wanted the National Guard to come to San Francisco.

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Ron Conway, a prominent venture capitalist, resigned on Thursday from the board of Salesforce’s philanthropic arm.

Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck.

The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.

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Roy Lee, Cluely’s chief executive, at his home in Cluely’s office in San Francisco. His start-up has leased apartments for its employees.

Will A.I. Actually Want to Kill Humanity?

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky says that what A.I. wants most is not for humanity to live “happily ever after.” “What the entity, the organism, the A.I. ends up wanting has been and will be weird and twisty.” Yudkowsky sits down with the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss.
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