Hashtag Trending – Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Host: Jim Love

In This Episode:

OpenAI promises new parental controls and crisis safeguards for ChatGPT after lawsuits and tragic incidents involving teens. Critics argue these measures are long overdue. Lawsuits against Character.AI and Google allege chatbots encouraged self-harm and manipulated young users.

Meta responds to reports of inappropriate AI bot interactions with teens, pledging to block harmful content and direct users to professional help.

A RAND study questions the effectiveness of AI safeguards in detecting indirect references to suicide.

Anthropic’s valuation skyrockets to $183 billion, tripling since March, as it becomes one of the fastest-growing AI firms.

The UK’s new Online Safety Act requires age verification for adult sites, but non-compliant sites are seeing a surge in traffic while compliant ones lose users. Similar trends are observed in the US.

AWS CEO Matt Garman warns against replacing junior staff with AI, emphasizing the importance of nurturing talent. Meanwhile, Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff touts AI-driven job cuts.

Discussion of whether AI is creating or destroying jobs, with industry leaders offering conflicting views.

A deep dive into the concept of “phase transitions” in large language models, exploring whether AI has already achieved a new level of understanding beyond mere prediction. Reflections on the challenges of accuracy, the nature of intelligence in AI, and recent research suggesting a fundamental shift in how large models comprehend meaning.

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