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UK Home Office May Face Investigation Over Use of OpenAI Tools

WIRED — AI · · International · Enforcement

A government watchdog is considering a probe into the Home Office’s use of ChatGPT technology to process asylum claims amid concerns over the tools’ accuracy and secrecy surrounding their use.

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Logged Is Not Authorized

Georgia law restricts police use of license plate data to law enforcement purposes. A new lawsuit alleges deputies searched a man's vehicle five times while he was suing their sheriff. Two recorded reasons were "info" and "37." The system accepted both.

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The Algorithm Said So

Federal rulemakers are deciding what to do when artificial intelligence produces the kind of conclusion that once required an expert. They disagree about how to regulate it. They also disagree about whether the problem has arrived.

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New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare’s AI Experiment

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a new batch of government records about WISeR, Medicare's AI-driven prior authorization system, following a lawsuit it filed earlier this year seeking information about the program. The records add to earlier findings that the system has caused care delays, denials, and reported patient harm.

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Anthropic accelerates – for the rest of us, the speed of growth spells precarity

Anthropic continues its rapid expansion, with the AI industry broadly moving at a pace that is reshaping financial markets and raising concerns about stability and risk for those outside the industry's core beneficiaries.

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UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups

An investigation by Spotlight on Corruption found that UK government officials held 137 meetings with businesses while developing AI datacentre policy, with no meetings recorded with environmental groups. The probe also identified 38 ministers, senior civil servants, and advisers who moved into AI industry roles during the same period.

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Anti-Circumvention Laws Raise the Cost of Knowledge

Anti-circumvention laws, originally written to protect copyright, are increasingly being used by platforms to block automated access to publicly posted web content. Researchers and journalists who rely on scraping and analysis tools to make sense of large-scale online data are caught in the crossfire as companies move to monetize or restrict access to information users made public.

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