Published Oct 9, 2026, 8:10 AM ET · Updated a month ago · 1 source

The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…