
New in SpyWeek: China, Cuba, Iran and an Air Force Defector
In light of news about the twisted teens who attacked the San Diego mosque, you might find this item from yesterday’s SpyWeek of interest.
The Munchausen Candidate: The family of a Florida man is suing Google on grounds that its Gemini artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) indulged and encouraged his conspiracy fantasies and drove him to attack Miami International Airport, after which he killed himself. “It’s one of several federal court cases accusing so-called frontier AI firms of allowing their LLM models to contribute to death,” writes Peter Beck at Court Watch. “The cases paint a picture of Americans, young and old, affluent and poor, urban and rural, and educated and not, falling victim to AI’s most extreme effects.”