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11 The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. [Matthew 23:11-12, ESV]

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• 🇺🇸 Musk ally ‘pushes AI-first strategy,’ as federal job faces potential cuts under Trump’s DOGE

• 🎒 California bill would make AI companies remind kids that chatbots aren’t people

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An ally of Elon Musk and the newly appointed director of Technology Transformation Services has reportedly informed General Services Administration (GSA) employees that the agency’s new administrator is focusing on an “AI-first strategy.”

Musk, who runs a slew of tech companies like SpaceX, Tesla, X, and xAI, has been given the job of cutting federal spending in a big way through something called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by the Trump administration.

In just the first two weeks, the group has shaken up federal agencies, pushing for major cost cuts and even encouraging workers to resign to trim expenses. A US senator claimed that DOGE’s access to government systems was even a “national security risk.”

A new bill proposed in California (SB 243) would require AI companies to periodically remind kids that a chatbot is an AI and not human. The bill, proposed by California Senator Steve Padilla, is meant to protect children from the “addictive, isolating, and influential aspects” of AI.

In addition to limiting companies from using “addictive engagement patterns,” the bill would require AI companies to provide annual reports to the State Department of Health Care Services outlining how many times it detected suicidal ideation by kids using the platform, as well as the number of times a chatbot brought up the topic.

Last year, a parent filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Character.AI, alleging its custom AI chatbots are “unreasonably dangerous” after her teen, who continuously chatted with the bots, died by suicide.

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