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Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: 'This threat is nothing but extortion' Company says schools should control student AI use, but if they block its AI tools, they'll lose access to search engine Parents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google's announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search. Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools and classrooms, alongside options allowing teachers and administrators to restrict their use. The company said schools should have control over whether students use AI in the classroom, but that schools that choose to block Google's AI tools will also lose access to its search engine. "We believe schools should have control over AI in their classrooms and in providing administrators with controls to help them manage their approach," said Chris Phillips, vice-president for education at Google. "After listening to schools, teachers, leading researchers, and policymakers, we are now updating our approach to controls for Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search. Access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on."

AI-generated correspondence takes moments for users to create, but huge amounts of time for human employees to sift through and respond to. AI-generated correspondence takes moments for users to create, but huge amounts of time for human employees to sift through and respond to. 'AI clog': UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints "I t started as a trickle in 2024 and now it's an onslaught." Hollie Wickens, a senior caseworker in a Labour MP's office, is explaining the daily reality of dealing with surging volumes of artificial intelligence-generated correspondence. "Half the emails we receive are some form of AI," she says, adding that this has made requests and complaints much more complex and time-consuming to read and deal with, despite her decade of experience in the role.

It may reduce time, but comes with the risk of fabricated data. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Can AI systems be trusted to reflect the reality of a car crash? One law enforcement agency in Japan reportedly wants to make something normally confined to sci-fi crime thrillers a reality: interactive, AI-powered reconstructions of real-world accidents. According to Tokyo's Metropolitan Department is developing a system that combines AI with security camera footage and 3D spatial data captured by camera-equipped mapping vehicles to digitally reconstruct traffic accidents.

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Named "Volta-Autodoxer," the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts. Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. New research shared exclusively with Kernel Panic shows that hackers have started adding AI functionality into a new strain of infostealer malware, making it possible for the system to automatically profile victims and quickly surface the highest value targets and their information. Dubbed "Volta-Autodoxer" because of how the malware refers to itself internally, the finding by Cisco Talos researchers sheds light on the ways that commercial LLMs are being used to augment and enhance the capabilities of established types of malware.

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'Super offensive' - We love how we look but AI tried to'fix' our visible differences People with scars, birthmarks and medical conditions have told the BBC how AI tools have changed or erased their personal features. Rhiannon Morgan, from Bridgend, said an image of her used in a work newsletter had been auto-retouched by AI. A BBC Wales investigation found AI tools including Elon Musk's Grok, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT removed visible differences when prompted to make a person look normal. AI did not make any other changes to the person's clothing, hair or to people in the background. The charity Changing Faces, external estimates there are about five million people in the UK affected by a visible difference including skin conditions or characteristics that set an individual apart from the conventional societal norm.

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. A UK government watchdog is considering an investigation into the Home Office's use of generative AI tools to process asylum applications, WIRED has learned. The potential probe follows lawmakers and researchers publicly questioning the tools' accuracy and the government's secrecy around their use. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI), which monitors the Home Office's management of borders, immigration, and customs, has asked digital rights nonprofit Open Rights Group (ORG) to share more information on the tools as it draws up plans for the topics it will inspect next year, campaigner Sara Alsherif tells WIRED. ORG's findings come from a six-month investigation into the tools, which involved 11 parliamentary questions, two ministerial letters, and 10 public records requests that attempt to pry details from the Home Office, which has withheld details on the tools.

ASD director general Abigail Bradshaw says'we must harness the technologies that are reshaping the threat environment'. ASD director general Abigail Bradshaw says'we must harness the technologies that are reshaping the threat environment'. Australian Signals Directorate chief says advanced AI tools are needed to defend against'AI-enabled attackers' Australians should prepare for more basic and important online services to go offline unexpectedly, the nation's signals intelligence agency has warned, urging that "system security must be prioritised over system availability". The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) also says businesses and critical infrastructure must use cutting-edge AI models to defend against digital threats, raising alarm that artificial intelligence is enabling more dangerous threats than ever. In its annual cyber threat report, ASD warns hostile foreign governments, criminals and hackers are using AI to gather intelligence, disrupt critical infrastructure and steal money, and that Australians should fight fire with fire.