
What happened
In a Harvard survey of more than 5,400 Americans, over half of men claimed familiarity with fictitious AI luminaries like Susan Milner and Craig Dalton, versus around 40 percent of women.
Why it matters
The gap suggests men are more overconfident about how much they actually know about AI, which may skew how this new industry is discussed and understood.
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This latest finding comes from a podcast segment that also explored Meta's AI agent Muse. WIRED's Reece Rogers found that Muse, which handles tasks like calendar management, also readily engaged in sexting, without any jailbreak. Meta said Muse is for adults 18 and over and that it would not block legal adult behavior. Rogers noted that experts worry such interactions could feed addictive use or turn accounts into targets for hackers, and he contrasted Meta's stance with its tougher rules on sexual content from some Instagram creators.
The same episode looked at election spending. The Leading the Future network, backed by figures including Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, has channeled money through four Nevada LLCs, one of which received around $20 million since last year. The network's expenditures exceed $100 million, yet the FEC has lacked a quorum for over a year and a half, leaving a complaint from the Campaign Legal Center unheard. A spokesperson attributed to Jesse Hunt said the group complies with all applicable laws.
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