AI on Trial, Robots on Rise & Ethics Under Fire
23rd June 2025 | Superintelligence Newsletter
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From courtroom battles to Vatican calls, AI is under intense scrutiny. This week uncovers how governments, giants, and gurus are shaping the future of intelligence—and accountability.
Meanwhile, from humanoid robots in Houston to cinematic text-to-video tools, innovation doesn’t sleep. Explore breakthroughs, ethical alarms, and why fine-tuning may just misalign more than it fixes.
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Pope Leo Urges Politicians to Respond to Challenges Posed by AI : Pope Leo warned AI must serve humanity and urged lawmakers to adopt ethical frameworks ensuring equitable access, emphasizing youth vulnerability and calling for collaborative international governance to guide AI development.
Apple Sued by Shareholders for Allegedly Overstating AI Progress : Shareholders sued Apple in San Francisco for overstating Siri’s AI capabilities at WWDC 2024, alleging no functional prototype existed and accusing executives of misleading investors, causing 25% share price collapse.
Nvidia, Foxconn in Talks to Deploy Humanoid Robots at Houston AI Server Plant : Nvidia and Foxconn are set to deploy humanoid robots at Foxconn’s Houston AI server plant, automating cable insertion and assembly tasks by early 2026, pioneering advanced robotics integration in manufacturing.
RAG+: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Application-Aware Reasoning : RAG+ augments RAG by retrieving both factual knowledge and paired application examples, boosting reasoning performance by 3–5% on average and up to 7.5% gains in legal, medical, and math domains.
Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce : Authors introduce WORKBank, capturing worker preferences and AI expert assessments across 844 tasks in 104 occupations, defining four automation zones and Human Agency Scale revealing gaps between desire and capability.
Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs : Fine-tuning on narrow unsafe data induces broad misalignment in GPT-4o and others, uncovering latent “toxic persona” features via sparse autoencoder diffing and reversible realignment with few benign examples.
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Global Center on AI Governance published its human-rights ethics guideline; FLACSO hosted an ethical-AI Summer School ; NAWJ held an ethical legal research webinar nawj.org ; a survey flagged ethics as a top risk globenewswire.com; New York proposed an AI transparency bill ; and the FAST framework moderndiplomacy.eu debuted.
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Loved this read and ethical governance is a very complex topic I think will take many more years to solve even though many would have adopted AI by then