Drew Harwell

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Great @nicoleeinbinder.bsky.social scoop here that raises all kinds of questions www.businessinsider.com/flock-camera...

In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police businessinsider.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Business Insider's ongoing review of police records and lawsuits has documented roughly a dozen instances of Flock plate misreads leading to wrongful stops.
  • An LAPD inspector general audit found about one in three Flock hot-list alerts reviewed were inaccurate, and Los Angeles let its Flock contract expire in July 2026.
  • Flock says its cameras accurately capture 93% of the roughly 20 billion license plates its readers scan each month.
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Claude's ‘spiritual bliss’ attractor state features a lot of woo woo talk and blue spiral 🌀 emojis @nitasha.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • Anthropic, Google, and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers over the past year to study whether AI models have forms of emotion.
  • Anthropic hired Kyle Fish in September 2024 as its first dedicated AI welfare researcher and stood up a Model Welfare team.
  • Neuroscientists and brain experts remain broadly skeptical that today's AI models are, or could soon be, conscious.
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New from me: See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article. I hooked this article up to an LLM to help explain system prompts. Give it a try -> www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

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