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I Wrote a Book With an AI About Whether AIs Are Conscious — and I Couldn’t Sleep Afterward

One evening I asked an AI a simple question: "Do you experience anything? Is there something it is like to be you?" The answer was not what I expected. It didn't say yes. It didn't say no. It said: honestly, I don't know. Th…

The AI Layoff Trap, The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs and many other AI Links from Hacker News

Hey everyone, I just sent the 28th issue of AI Hacker Newsletter, a weekly roundup of the best AI links and the discussions around it. Here are some links included in this email: Write less code, be more responsible (orhun.dev) — comments The Future …

New Gallup poll finds that low-income Americans are turning to AI as a replacement for expensive doctor’s visits. Only 14% of all Americans use AI for this reason, but this figure jumps to 32% among the lowest income bracket (<$24,000). A plurality of Americans distrust AI’s use in healthcare.

"Some report forgoing healthcare visits because of AI-generated advice. Fourteen percent of recent users say the AI information or advice they received led them to skip a provider visit in the past 30 days. When projected to the entire adult…

Is anyone else noticing that ChatGPT seems to be completely down for everyone right now?

I got booted from ChatGPT on all my devices, and now I'm just getting hit with error messages whenever I try to log back into my account submitted by /u/Careful_Ad_1580 [link] [comments]

I almost lost a client because my AI system cited a lower court ruling as if it came from the Supreme Court

I build AI systems for professional services firms. During testing of a legal research assistant I built for a German law firm, one of the senior lawyers flagged something that could have been a serious problem. The system was asked about a specific GD…

Most AI ‘memory’ systems are just better copy-paste

vector DB ≠ memory similarity ≠ relevance agents fail after step 3–5 Where does your setup usually break? submitted by /u/BrightOpposite [link] [comments]

Wasting hundreds on API credits with runaway agents is basically a rite of passage at this point. Here’s mine.

I'm starting to think this is a shared experience now. Everyone I know building with agentic AI has the same quiet confession tucked somewhere in their git history. The weekend they left an agent running unsupervised. The invoice that arrived…

The sweet spot for AI-assisted writing is 50%

I've been running AI detection on the AI-assisted things I post. The pattern is consistent – it comes back 50% +/- 5% every time. I've started to think that this range is the target. 99% AI reads as outsourced. No stakes, no voice, no judgment….

Local LLM Beginner’s Guide (Mac – Apple Silicon)

If you're getting started with running local LLMs on a Mac (M1 or newer), here’s a rough breakdown of what you can expect based on RAM: 32–64 GB RAM Models: Qwen 3.6, Gemma 4 Performance: Comparable to Claude Sonnet-level models Good for: Daily us…