New York City's Robot Told Bosses to Keep the Tips
The city built an official small business chatbot and it cheerfully recommended wage theft and housing discrimination, for weeks, for millions of dollars. Plus: Air Canada argues its chatbot is its own legal person, a journal publishes a rat that should not exist, and a man loses a cage fight to a machine being driven by another man.
In this edition
The Municipal Employee Who Cannot Be Fired
Meanwhile
The Chatbot Is Its Own Legal Person Now
Slop, or Not?
Something Useful
Something Weird
Tomorrow
Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:38 — The Municipal Employee Who Cannot Be Fired
2:35…
The skinny
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