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The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots

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MIT Technology Review - Ai Research Title: The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots Date: 2026-02-19 13:10 Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/19/1133339/the-download-autonomous-narco-submarines-and-virtue-signaling-chatbots/ <p><em>This is today’s edition of <a href="https:…
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  • Morally, there's an ironclad case that countries or companies responsible for climate emissions should provide compensation

    80% confidence
  • The United States and European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities, burning a wildly disproportionate share of the world's oil and gas

    80% confidence
  • Uncrewed narco submarines could move more cocaine over longer distances without putting human smugglers at risk of capture

    80% confidence
  • Removing beauty filters may have impinged on free expression

    80% confidence
  • Too often, victims have been left to fight alone. That is not justice. It is failure.

    80% confidence
  • An AI-based tool can help surrogates predict what patients themselves would want in end-of-life decision situations

    80% confidence
  • The moral behavior of large language models should be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math

    80% confidence
  • Nobody knows how trustworthy LLM technology really is at sensitive tasks as people ask them to play more sensitive roles and agents take actions on their behalf

    80% confidence
  • Increasing engagement is not Instagram's goal; the company's true calling is to give its users something useful

    80% confidence

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