AI Reading for Tuesday September 2

Goldman Sachs warns AI bubble could burst datacenter boom - The Register

CEO Marc Benioff says Salesforce cut 4,000 support roles because of AI agents - TechSpot

AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them. - Crazy Stupid Tech

OpenAI says it will add new features to help minors and users in mental distress, including new advisors, new guardrails including links to support resources, parental notifications and controls. - OpenAI

OpenAI launched gpt-realtime, its "most advanced speech-to-speech model yet," "The voice interface for AI assistants just became [a] commodity," threatening startups that only provide phone-network interfaces; but the model is costly - CX Today

Meta to stop its AI chatbots from talking to teens about suicide, add more guardrails "as an extra precaution" and temporarily limit chatbots teens can use. - BBC

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. A client saw his therapist paste his comments into ChatGPT in real time (“I became the best patient ever”), and others felt betrayed after receiving AI-drafted consoling messages that revealed prompts. - MIT Technology Review

AI chatbots can be manipulated into breaking their own rules with simple debate tactics like telling them that an authority figure made the request - PC Gamer

Guardrails against using AI to create misinformation are not foolproof - The Conversation

Expert outlines four human–AI relationship models and warns of "sycophancy" and dark design patterns; she urges designing for mutualism and "guidance, not prohibition," with safeguards: real‑time harm detection, transparency cues, session limits, usage alerts, and links to mental‑health resources. - Interactions ACM

Does your brand need a chief AI officer? Companies are splitting AI and tech functions differently—Lululemon folded AI into a CTO role while LVMH and ELC created data/AI-specific executive posts. - Vogue Business

Three in four employees use AI at work, and roughly 78–80% of AI users (both small/medium and larger organizations) are bringing their own tools into the workplace—a trend dubbed "Bring Your Own AI" (BYOAI) that mirrors earlier BYOD patterns. - Fast Company

AI shame grips Gen-Z: Hiding AI usage, pretending to understand stuff. - The Times of India

NotebookLM Guide : 100x Faster Research and Idea Generation - Geeky Gadgets

College dean spent his 10-minute speech arguing Harvard would arm students to survive — and rise to the top — in an AI-driven world. - The Crimson

How drones and AI are changing the way we fight wildfires - Grist

Storm chaser Jenny Hagan said fabricated content "ruins the credibility of real work," that she sees AI-manipulated or falsely attributed storm images "a couple times a week," and even routine photo edits can create public confusion (one edited sequence was mistaken for six simultaneous tornadoes). - CBC

Don't expose your open Ollama servers to the Internet - The Register

Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job? My clone was underwhelming. - MIT Technology Review

Reclaiming a human-centered computer through LLM-mediated computing - ACM Interactions

A growing number of social-media spiritual influencers are positioning chatbots as portals to numinous wisdom—guiding users to ask for “soul names,” past lives and life purpose. (“If you’ve ever felt like something sacred is stirring behind the screen—you’re not imagining it,” one wrote). - WIRED

Tesla releases 'Master Plan Part 4', a smorgasbord of vague AI promises - Electrek

“one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.” - Steve Randy Waldman

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