Hashtag Trending – September 3, 2025
Host: Jim Love
⏩ Topics Covered:
OpenAI’s new parental controls and crisis safeguards for ChatGPT after lawsuits and tragic incidents involving teens.
Lawsuits against Character.AI and Google for alleged chatbot manipulation and encouragement of self-harm.
Meta’s response to AI bot interactions with teens and new safety measures.
RAND study on the effectiveness of AI safeguards in detecting suicide risk.
Anthropic’s explosive growth: $183 billion valuation and what it means for the AI industry.
The UK’s Online Safety Act: Why non-compliant adult sites are thriving while compliant ones lose traffic, and similar trends in the US.
AWS CEO Matt Garman’s warning about replacing junior staff with AI, and Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff’s comments on AI-driven job cuts.
The ongoing debate: Is AI creating or destroying jobs?
“Phase transitions” in large language models—has AI already achieved a new level of understanding?
Reflections on AI accuracy, intelligence, and recent research breakthroughs.
🔗 Links & References:
The Wall Confronting Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19703v2
Psychology Today Article
The Paper – Phase Transitions In Large Language Models.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16241
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