Major manufacturers and transport companies including Maersk, Siemens, and Unilever are putting AI to work to advise on contract terms, hunt down suppliers on better shipping routes or with better terms, and spot ethical potholes, such as buying cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, where Uighur Muslims are allegedly enslaved.
In the 1990s, any company with “dot-com” attached to its name could issue stock, share prices would soar, and millionaires would be made in the company and in the equity market.
Earlier this month at the annual Defcon computer hackers conference, Anthropic, OpenAI, and other artificial intelligence developers invited the world’s best cyber-invaders to be their most creative in attacking and penetrating current generative AIs.
Google is negotiating with Universal Music Group, one of the world’s largest owners of record labels and artists’ contracts, to use artists’ images and voices in recording and videos of songs written by AI.
For more than a decade, job-seekers have been frustrated by having to craft resumés and cover letters that will pass an initial screening by a computer program. Some submit scores of attempts, varying the format and content to suit the company offering a position, and never receive a response—not even a polite rejection.
The nonprofit Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), claiming OpenAI has violated the portion of the Federal Trade Commission Act banning deceptive and unfair practices.