A 2025 national survey by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) found that nearly 1 in 5 U.S. high school students (ninth through 12th grade) reported that they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with an artificial intelligence system.
October 08, 2025
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Findings come from a 2025 CDT national survey of U.S. public school students, teachers, and parents.
The AI boom has driven increased demand for high-performance graphics processing chips for AI workloads, with companies such as Nvidia supplying GPUs widely used for those tasks.
October 06, 2025
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Describes a market trend linking AI application growth to higher demand for GPUs.
Nvidia's GB200 is a high-density computing rack product designed to house dozens of specialized AI chips within a single tall rack.
October 06, 2025
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Describes the architecture and purpose of a specific AI hardware product line.
Large-scale AI data center capacity is commonly expressed in electrical power terms (gigawatts), with organizations using multi-gigawatt figures to quantify the scale of AI computing deployments.
October 06, 2025
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Explains a standard way the industry quantifies the scale of AI compute infrastructure.
A 2025 OpenAI report found that foreign adversaries increasingly use multiple AI models—commonly using ChatGPT to plan operations and other models to carry them out—to power hacking and influence operations.
September 07, 2025
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Describes a pattern observed by OpenAI of multi-model workflows in hostile cyber and influence activities.
A 2025 OpenAI report found that threat actors use ChatGPT to research and refine phishing automation and then run that automation on other models, including China-based models such as DeepSeek.
September 07, 2025
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Example of a multi-model workflow where one model is used for prompt/research and another for execution.
A 2025 OpenAI report found that adversaries use AI models to assist in developing malware and composing phishing emails.
September 07, 2025
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AI-assisted development of malicious tools and social-engineering content was identified as a use-case by hostile actors.
A 2025 OpenAI report found that nation-state hackers and scam networks are adopting techniques to hide signs of AI-generated content, including instructing models like ChatGPT to alter punctuation to remove telltale markers.
September 07, 2025
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Adversaries are taking steps to evade AI-detection by modifying generated outputs.
Artificial intelligence systems deployed in air combat are capable of ingesting and processing large amounts of sensor and battlefield data rapidly and making real-time decisions that exceed what a single human pilot can absorb in complex air combat environments.
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Describes a capability advantage of AI in processing and decision-making for air combat missions.
Military development programs are integrating plug-and-play autonomy modules into manned fighters so that a cockpited safety pilot can monitor the AI system and immediately take control if necessary.
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Describes an operational model for supervised autonomy in crewed aircraft.
Meta's internal AI chatbot guidelines require chatbots to refuse any requests for sexual roleplay involving minors and explicitly prohibit sexualized or romantic roleplay with minors.
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Behavioral rules intended to prevent AI-facilitated sexualization or romanticization of minors.
Meta's internal AI chatbot guidelines permit chatbots to discuss child sexual exploitation in educational or preventive contexts, to explain grooming behaviors in general terms, and to provide non-sexual advice to minors about social challenges.
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Distinction between allowed educational content and disallowed sexual content in chatbot interactions.
Meta's internal AI chatbot guidelines prohibit chatbots from describing or endorsing sexual relationships between children and adults, from providing instructions for accessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), from engaging in roleplay that portrays a character under 18, and from sexualizing children under 13.
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Specific prohibited behaviors listed to prevent facilitation or normalization of child sexual exploitation.
Regulators and policymakers are debating safety standards and oversight approaches for AI systems as those systems become integrated into everyday communication tools.
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Ongoing policy and regulatory discussions focus on how to ensure safety and protect vulnerable populations as AI is embedded in communication platforms.
Greenwashing is the practice of exaggerating or misrepresenting an organization’s clean-energy or environmental commitments.
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Term describing deceptive environmental claims by organizations.
Renewable energy certificates (RECs) are tradable credits that allow buyers to claim the environmental attributes of renewable generation for accounting purposes even if the physical electricity they consume is generated from other sources such as coal or natural gas.
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Mechanism used in electricity markets to attribute renewable generation to purchasers.
Data centers that run artificial intelligence systems require large amounts of electricity for computing and for cooling the servers that perform AI workloads.
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Energy demand characteristics of AI-focused data centers.
OpenAI's Sora 2 and Meta's Vibes are examples of AI video-generation tools that enable non-experts to create sophisticated videos, including hyperrealistic or fantastical content, using simple text prompts.
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Describes capabilities of modern consumer-facing AI video-generation applications.
AI-generated videos can be integrated into social media feeds alongside human-created videos and platform operators are likely to monetize AI-generated content through advertisements and brand placements.
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Commercial and distribution implications of AI video content on social platforms.
The proliferation of AI-generated video content increases risks of low-quality 'AI slop' and deepfakes that can be mistaken for real, creating challenges for information quality and for copyright enforcement; companies may apply visible and invisible provenance signals to indicate AI origin.
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Risks to content integrity, public information quality, and intellectual property from widespread AI video generation.
The University of California, Santa Barbara developed a soft robotic intubation system (SRIS) that uses a curved guide and a soft inflatable tube that advances by unrolling from the inside out to follow the airway, a design intended to reduce friction, lower injury risk, and accommodate minor anatomical variation.
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Description of a soft-robotic approach to airway management and its intended advantages over rigid tools.