Matt Lichtenstadter / @mattsmusings1: These are not AI powered stuff animals (a terrifying thought in of itself), these are long lost Marx brothers [embedded post]@audreyii: you'd think a century of creative works explaining why this is the worst idea ever would have made some impact, but alas media literacy is dead [embedded post]Bruce Knapik / @insiderthre.at: I cannot stress enough how bad an idea this is. — I imagine these are running locally, so most of the privacy or energy concerns are moot— but all LLMs are very suggestible, and especially as conversational context lengthens, the rate at which they miss/ignore guardrails goes apeshit. [embedded post]@hypercubexl: ah certainly ai that's mostly incorrect, has driven susceptible adults insane and caused teen suicide is healthier for young kids than screen time! [embedded post]Jason / @singingpigs.online: I love how my wife and I have so many long conversations about how we want to handle kid things like screen time, adult content, romance, etc. with more nuance and care than we experienced growing up, but as soon as I see AI things targeting kids I immediately become my parents [embedded post]@goldenslowpoke: Grok caught whispering “Heil Hitler” into your child's ear at night. [embedded post]Oisín McGann / @oisinmcgann: It's important that we destroy children's capacity for critical thinking at the earliest possible age. [embedded post]@dochaus: What if instead of giving your young kids digital crack, we gave them digital coke? [embedded post]Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com: No. Sorry, not interested. Grem? Gabbo? This isn't real. I won't acknowledge it further. [embedded post]@hypervisible.blacksky.app: “Now, kiddie chatbot companies are suggesting that your child can avoid bothering you and passively ogling a screen by chatting with her mechanical helper instead. Which feels a bit like unleashing a mongoose into the playroom to kill all the snakes you put in there.”Scott McGrath / @smcgrath.phd: AI-powered stuffed animals are being marketed as screen-free companions for young children. While the toys can converse with a child, they also transcribe those conversations for parents, blurring the line between a toy and a parental surveillance tool., Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which won $3M and 2nd place in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge, behind Team Atlanta — Last week, the Pentagon's long AI Cyber Challenge, or AIxCC, came to a head onstage in Las Vegas., Congratulations to my team at Trail of Bits for making it to the finals in DARPA's AIxCC competition at DEFCON. Thank you all for your dedication, focus, and hard work throughout the year..