Marielza

Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute. UNESCO Women in STEM Committee Some pottery and cyanotyping Profile picture is of my face and torso Banner is a picture I took of a light garden

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Marielza reposted
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Broken record here, but so many of these uses start with “how can we get people to use a chatbot” rather than “how do we solve a problem” or “how do we fill a need.” The “problem” according to the companies is that people aren’t using chatbots enough.

DoorDash's new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Ask DoorDash photographs cookbook pages and auto-populates grocery carts with correct item quantities, prompting users about staples they may already own.
  • The chatbot handles restaurant discovery, table booking, and grocery ordering in one iOS conversational interface, rolling out in select U.S. regions.
  • Uber Eats launched a competing 'Cart Assistant' in February 2026; Instacart also fields an AI shopping assistant through grocery chain partners.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from r…

The Blind Spot in AI Safety techpolicy.press View on Bluesky →

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