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    Uber laid off contractors developing AI tools for Google.

    The workers, part of Project Sandbox, were one month into an expected three month stint, Business Insider reports. Around a dozen people were involved, though it’s not clear how many were cut.

    “The client has recently communicated a change in their internal priorities, which directly affects ongoing work on this program,” Uber emailed the affected contractors on Monday.

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    Robert Hart
    Verses versus AIs.

    If you want to crack an AI chatbot, maybe give poetry a try. It turns out “adversarial poetry” is remarkably good at jailbreaking large language models, according to this pre-print on arXiv.

    Maybe tech bros shouldn’t have turned on the liberal arts after all.

    Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI lawsEurope is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
    Robert Hart and Dominic Preston