Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For years, a US telecommunications company has been building proprietary AI models using phone and video calls made by inmates in US prisons as building blocks. According to has MIT Technology ReviewSecurus Technologies, a private equity firm, has been developing its AI products since 2023, but…

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Is Your Job Safe From AI? We Asked an Expert

Once the domain of speculative science-fiction writers, the new realities of automation and artificial intelligence are rapidly insinuating their way into how we think and act. It’s changing how the organizations we work in operate, and blowing up old assumptions of how a career—and, indeed, a life—might be constructed. It can all feel a little…

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