A peculiar case shook the New York justice system on 26 March 2025, when plaintiff Jerome Dewald attempted to be represented by a digital avatar created by artificial intelligence in an employment dispute. The judges immediately recognised the situation and intervened decisively when the non-existent "legal representative" appearing
There is currently insufficient data on the impact of artificial intelligence on elections to draw well-founded conclusions, while initial threat predictions have proven exaggerated. Researchers from the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics identified only 71 instances of AI use in election-related communication in 2024. Purdue University researchers documented
Content restriction in generative AI manifests as explicit or implicit censorship. Explicit censorship uses predefined rules to block content like hate speech or illegal material, employing keyword blacklists, pattern-matching, or classifiers (Gillespie 2018). DeepSeek’s models, aligned with Chinese regulations, use real-time filters to block politically sensitive content, such as
A joint study by OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab, published on 21 March 2025, found that users who form emotional bonds with ChatGPT are more prone to loneliness and emotional dependency. The researchers analysed nearly 40 million ChatGPT interactions using automated methods. They conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT)
The conflicting relationship between two key European Union regulations—the EU AI Act and the GDPR—creates significant legal uncertainty regarding the non-discriminatory application of artificial intelligence. According to a February 2025 analysis by the European Parliament Research Service, this issue is particularly pronounced in the case of high-risk AI
On 26 March 2025, Microsoft announced the introduction of two new AI agents with deep reasoning capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Named "Researcher" and "Analyst," these agents leverage OpenAI technology and will become available to users in April through a new "Frontier" programme.
On 18 March 2025, an expert task force convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom published its draft report on the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence. The report aims to promote the safe development of AI technologies through empirical, science-based analysis while ensuring California maintains its leadership in the
China’s AI infrastructure boom, which began following the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, is collapsing, with a significant portion—up to 80%, according to sources—of the more than 150 government-backed data centres now standing empty. The national ambition to become a leader in artificial intelligence technology has
Detecting hallucinations involves distinguishing accurate outputs from those that deviate from factual or contextual grounding. One approach is consistency checking, where LLM outputs are evaluated against external knowledge bases to identify discrepancies. Manakul et al. (2023) propose SelfCheckGPT, a zero-resource method that uses the model’s internal consistency to detect
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is expected to impose a fine exceeding €500 million on TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, for unlawfully transferring European user data to China for analysis. This is anticipated to be the third largest GDPR fine, following Meta’s €1.2 billion and Amazon’s
On 3 March 2025, Google released an open-source artificial intelligence model called SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species in footage captured by wildlife cameras. The model aims to accelerate the processing of images generated by camera traps, a task that previously could take days or even weeks, thereby supporting the
On 18 March 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that creations generated solely by artificial intelligence are not eligible for copyright protection, reinforcing that copyright law presupposes a human creator. The decision came in a case brought by computer scientist Stephen Thaler,
