AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries “most of the time,” according to the Financial Times.

 + A former American diplomat who served for years in the Middle East told The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins that Trump’s negotiating posse, which includes Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and his sons, David Sachs, the crypto man, and Trump’s own family, are using their positions to pad their portfolios:

I know all of these guys. They go to these meetings and they’re doing business right alongside the diplomacy. ‘O.K., enough about the ceasefire. We have this hotel we want to build.’ That’s the kind of foreign policy America has now.

+ The Washington Post reported just how deeply the Trump Organization is invested in AI and associated industries…

Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, has announced a merger with a nuclear fusion company that plans to develop power plants as electricity demand surges, in large part because of the rapid expansion of AI data centers. Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are investors in a number of AI and data center ventures, primarily through the investment firms 1789 Capital and American Ventures. Trump Jr. is a partner at 1789 Capital, a Florida-based venture capital firm that announced it had closed a $1.2 billion fund that will focus on real estate ventures, including deals aimed at digital infrastructure like data centers.

+ At least 105 members of Congress hold personal investments in the AI industry, according to an analysis of financial disclosures and hundreds of stock transactions this year by Real Sludge.

+ The Trump administration, which rarely seems to get out among their peeps anymore, continues to contend that popular opposition to both AI and data centers is being bankrolled by China, missing the fact that most people, right, left and center, have a visceral hatred for both.

+ There’s no political divide on AI. Only 10 percent of Republicans and 9 percent of Democrats and Independents say they are more excited than concerned about AI, according to a Pew survey from late June.

+ Abdul El-Sayed: “AI shouldn’t be able to fire you. AI shouldn’t be able to deny you health care. AI shouldn’t be able to fire a weapon.” That’s a pretty clear and succinct way of putting it.

+ AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries “most of the time,” according to the Financial Times.

+ Bill Burr on AI: “Why don’t they make an AI CEO? They’re making way more than all the workers. You’re going to save way more money replacing one guy. Why don’t you do that? Because it’s not for us. It’s for them.”

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