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Politics UK EU

Justice minister greenlights prison chatbots

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Justice minister James Timpson approved HMP Wandsworth’s use of AI chatbots to prevent mistaken prisoner releases, coinciding with EU rules requiring firms to disclose chatbot interactions.

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The Guardian
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister

HMP Wandsworth has been given the green light to use AI after a specialist team was brought in to find quick fixes following a spate of mistakes. Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to prevent prisoners from being released in error, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday. James Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the green light to use AI after a specialist team was sent in to find some quick fixes.

AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
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Oh good heavens. What could possibly go wrong?

ChatGPT: "Yes, you're right. The release date wasn't for another five years. Thanks for spotting that."

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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@nilsgilman.bsky.social

Interesting piece about a legal privilege for AI communications. In my forthcoming book, I propose a broader legal privilege for digital communications (not just AI).

Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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“If we figure out what it means to be human, NO ONE TELL CHATGPT!” -my contribution to the AI leadership group this morning
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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Quello che vedete nella foto è Grem, il primo chatbot per bambini, capace di parlare con voce umana e di stabilire una connessione "intima" con vostro figlio.
È integrato in un peluche tanto puccioso.
Ma anche tanto spaventoso.
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/gli-anti-s...
Gli anti-social media
Come Internet e i social media, anche l’intelligenza artificiale rischia di indebolire le nostre relazioni e disgregare il tessuto sociale, con effetti funzionali all’autoritarismo.
fabiosabatini.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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“As people increasingly turn to A.I. chat tools as confidants, therapists and advisers, we urgently need a new form of legal protection that would safeguard most private communications between people and A.I. chatbots,” writes Nils Gilman.
Opinion | Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot?
The case for “A.I. Interaction Privilege.”
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM

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➤ AI manipulation and chatbot targeting:

For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of...
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM