News AI costs drop 280-fold, but harmful incidents rise 56% in last year — Stanford 2025 AI report highlights China-US competition

[Admin]

Stanford's 2025 AI Index Report finds several key takeaways on the state of the AI sphere in 2025, including its rapid growth and causes for concern.

AI costs drop 280-fold, but harmful incidents rise 56% in last year — Stanford 2025 AI report highlights China-US competition : Read more

 

[DS426]

"Notably, few AI companies accept responsibility for AI incidents when they occur, with several of the above incidents leading to refusals to issue an apology or reparation from the involved companies."

The refusal to provide a simple apology makes these companies every bit inhuman as their AI models, which is strange as companies are still staffed by humans the last time I checked.

 

[usertests]

More "harm" at low cost? Sounds great to me.

 

[Jabberwocky79]

The AI bubble burst can't possibly get here fast enough as far as I'm concerned.

 

[JohnyFin]

How about "stealing" photos, books,music from web without owner acceptation for training AI ...this nobody mention?!?!

 

[t3t4]

Harmful AI incidents​

Some of the most severe incidents in 2024 were listed in HAI's complete Chapter 3. These incidents included a false ID of a shopper thought to be a shoplifter with anti-theft AI, deepfake pornography, and instances of chatbots encouraging harmful behavior, including self-harm.

These are the most "harmful" things that occurred? More like the expected typical AI with a bit of petty nuisance baked in and just a little sprinkle of 'dumb dumb finder' on top. When the AI starts launching nukes and creating bio weapons that end biology, then we can talk about harmful! When AI collapses the global monetary system, that would be harmful! Calling billy bob an idiot in some chat thing, well that's just life! But cry babies gonna cry I guess.

 

[jp7189]

"233 harmful or dangerous incidents were reported to the AIID in 2024"

AI use is nearly ubiquitous at this point and only 233 people were offended enough to file a report in a whole year? What technology have humans ever implemented with a better track record than that? I bet more people are harmed from electric shocks just trying to plug in a computer each year.