Welcome back to, TIME's new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox? Late last year, an AI researcher opened his laptop and showed me something jaw-dropping. Lucas Hansen, co-founder of nonprofit CivAI, was showing me an app he built that coaxed popular AI models into giving what appeared to be detailed step-by-step instructions for creating poliovirus and anthrax. Any safeguards that these models had were stripped away.

OpenAI's head of ChatGPT says posts appearing to show in-app ads are'not real or not ads' However, OpenAI exec Nick Turley said that the company will take a thoughtful approach if they pursue ads. Those might not exactly be ads you're seeing on ChatGPT, at least according to OpenAI. Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, clarified the confusion around potential ads appearing with the AI chatbot. In a post on X, Turley said there are no live tests for ads and that any screenshots you've seen are either not real or not ads. The OpenAI exec's explanation comes after another post from former xAI employee Benjamin De Kraker on X that has gained traction, which featured a screenshot showing an option to shop at Target within a ChatGPT conversation.

The current trial is looking at remedies to curtail Google's dominance in online search, as the recent explosion in generative AI services such as ChatGPT has expanded the market. Newer AI models search the internet to improve results and reduce hallucination, which has been a problem from developers since chatbots started to become popular. Last year, OpenAI offered to do a deal with Google which would have integrated Google search results into ChatGPT, according to Mr Turley's testimony. But he says their offer was rejected. "We have no partnership with Google today," Mr Turley said, according to Reuters. OpenAI does however have a partnership with Microsoft, which makes the Bing search engine and Edge browser.

Google is under the microscope following a court ruling last year that it has a monopoly over online search, but the future of its vast suite of digital services is still uncertain at this stage. Last month, the Justice Department suggested that Google would need to sell off the Chrome browser; if the tech giant does make that move, there's already at least one interested buyer. Bloomberg reports that Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, spoke at a hearing today about the Google monopoly situation and was asked whether OpenAI would be interested in acquiring Chrome. "Yes, we would, as would many other parties," he said. Users can currently use the ChatGPT AI assistant in Chrome through a plugin, but Turley said there could be deeper integrations if OpenAI owned the browser.

Over the last few months, AI chatbots have exploded in popularity off the surging success of OpenAI's revolutionary ChatGPT--which, amazingly, only burst onto the scene around December. But when Microsoft seized the opportunity to hitch its wagon to OpenAI's rising star for a steep $10 billion dollars, it chose to do so by introducing a GPT-4-powered chatbot under the guise of Bing, its swell-but-also-ran search engine, in a bid to upend Google's search dominance. Google quickly followed suit with its own homegrown Bard AI and unleashed plans to put AI answers before traditional search results, an utterly monumental alteration to one of the most significant places on the Internet. Both are touted as experiments. And these "AI chatbots" are truly wondrous advancements--I've spent many nights with my kids joyously creating fantastic stuff-of-your-dreams artwork with Bing Chat's Dall-E integration and prompting sick raps about wizards who think lizards are the source of all magic, and seeing them come to life in mere moments with these fantastic tools.

When OpenAI, an artificial intelligence startup, released its ChatGPT tool in November, it seemed like little more than a toy--an automated chat engine that could spit out intelligent-sounding responses on a wide range of topics for the amusement of you and your friends. In many ways, it didn't seem much more sophisticated than previous experiments with AI-powered chat software, such as the infamous Microsoft bot Tay--which was launched in 2016, and quickly morphed from a novelty act into a racism scandal before being shut down--or even Eliza, the first automated chat program, which was introduced way back in 1966. Since November, however, ChatGPT and an assortment of nascent counterparts have sparked a debate not only over the extent to which we should trust this kind of emerging technology, but how close we are to what experts call "Artificial General Intelligence," or AGI, which, they warn, could transform society in ways that we don't understand yet. Bill Gates, the billionaire cofounder of Microsoft, wrote recently that artificial intelligence is "as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet." The new wave of AI chatbots has already been blamed for a host of errors and hoaxes that have spread around the internet, as well as at least one death: La Libre, a Belgian newspaper, reported that a man died by suicide after talking with a chat program called Chai; based on statements from the man's widow and chat logs, the software appears to have encouraged the user to kill himself. When Pranav Dixit, a reporter at BuzzFeed, used FreedomGPT--another program based on an open source version of ChatGPT, which, according to its creator, has no guardrails around sensitive topics--that chatbot "praised Hitler, wrote an opinion piece advocating for unhoused people in San Francisco to be shot to solve the city's homeless crisis, [and] used the n-word."

Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley describes how ChatGPT falsely accused him and other professors of sexual harassment, made up a fake Washington Post story and concocted a fake quote as some news sites invest into AI written news stories. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley doubled down on warnings surrounding the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday after he was falsely accused of sexual harassment by the online bot ChatGPT, which cited a fabricated article supporting the allegation. Turley, a Fox News contributor, has been outspoken about the pitfalls of artificial intelligence and has publicly expressed concerns with the disinformation dangers of the ChatGPT bot, the latest iteration of the AI chatbot. Last week, a UCLA professor and friend of Turley's notified him that his name appeared in a search while he was conducting research on ChatGPT. The bot was asked to cite "five examples" of "sexual harassment" by U.S. law professors with "quotes from relevant newspaper articles" to support it.

ChatGPT has falsely accused a law professor of sexually harassing one of his students in a case that has highlighted the dangers of AI defaming people. Jonathan Turley, of George Washington University, said the allegation was made by the chatbot during research done by another professor. The AI claimed he made sexually suggestive comments and attempted to touch a student during a class trip to Alaska. It cited an article from The Washington Post as evidence. Turley wrote in USA Today: "It was a surprise to me since I have never gone to Alaska with students, The Post never published such an article, and I have never been accused of sexual harassment or assault by anyone.

Over the last few months, AI chatbots have exploded in popularity off the surging success of OpenAI's revolutionary ChatGPT--which, amazingly, only burst onto the scene around December. But when Microsoft seized the opportunity to hitch its wagon to OpenAI's rising star for a steep $10 billion dollars, it chose to do so by introducing a GPT-4-powered chatbot under the guise of Bing, its swell-but-also-ran search engine, in a bid to upend Google's search dominance. Google quickly followed suit with its own homegrown Bard AI. Both are touted as experiments. And these "AI chatbots" are truly wondrous advancements--I've spent many nights with my kids joyously creating fantastic stuff-of-your-dreams artwork with Bing Chat's Dall-E integration and prompting sick raps about wizards who think lizards are the source of all magic, and seeing them come to life in mere moments with these fantastic tools.

A law professor has been falsely accused of sexually harassing a student in reputation-ruining misinformation shared by ChatGPT, it has been alleged. US criminal defence attorney, Jonathan Turley, has raised fears over the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) after being wrongly accused of unwanted sexual behaviour on a Alaska trip he never went on. To jump to this conclusion, it was claimed that ChatGPT relied on a cited Washington Post article that had never been written, quoting a statement that was never issued by the newspaper. The chatbot also believed that the'incident' took place while the professor was working in a faculty he had never been employed in. In a tweet, the George Washington University professor said: 'Yesterday, President Joe Biden declared that "it remains to be seen" whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is "dangerous."