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#1 AI Chatbot Pushed Florida Teen to Suicide, Lawsuit Against Its Creator Alleges

Oct 29 2024 // In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend.For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his...

#2 Florida Regulators Demand Data From Weiss Ratings After Recent Reports on Insurers

Nov 22 2024 // Weiss Ratings, a Palm Beach Gardens financial ratings firm, sparked some outrage from the Florida insurance industry in recent weeks after it released reports contending that some of Florida’s largest property...

#3 Class Action Lawsuit on AI-Related Discrimination Reaches Final Settlement

Nov 25 2024 // Mary Louis’ excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her...

#4 AI Weather Models Have Shown Promise This Hurricane Season

Nov 19 2024 // When Hurricane Beryl was rushing across the Atlantic basin in July, the weather forecasting tool made by Google Deepmind, the tech company’s artificial intelligence unit, saw something other models missed....

#5 Viewpoint: Are You Covered for AI Risks?

Nov 8 2024 // You can’t go anywhere without hearing about the impact of generative artificial intelligence on … well, everything. The insurance industry is not immune from these impacts; it has been affected by AI in countless...

#6 AI Thermostats Pitched for Texas Homes to Relieve Stressed Grid

Nov 8 2024 // Three of the biggest names in US home energy automation are coming together to offer some relief to the beleaguered Texas electrical grid.Power supplier NRG Energy Inc. is partnering with Renew Home LLC to distribute about...

#7 Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Issues Bulletin on Use of AI

Nov 15 2024 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready issued a bulletin providing insurers with regulatory guidance on the use of artificial intelligence.The bulletin, which was adopted by the National Association of Insurance...

#8 AI Weapons Scanners in NYC Subway Found Zero Guns in Month Test

Oct 30 2024 // A pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners inside some New York City subway stations this summer did not detect any passengers with firearms — but falsely alerted more than 100 times, according to newly released...

#9 AI Revolution in Insurance: Opportunities and Legal Pitfalls

Nov 18 2024 // The insurance industry is in the midst of a digital revolution, with artificial intelligence (AI) at the heart of it. From streamlining claims processing to creating personalized policies, AI has quickly become a vital...

#10 Program Uses AI to Send Cash Payments to 1,000 Households Hit by Hurricanes

Oct 29 2024 // Nearly 1,000 hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will benefit this week from a new disaster aid program that employs a model not commonly used by philanthropy in the United States: Giving people...

#11 FTC’s Holyoak Concerned AI Collecting Children’s Data

Nov 15 2024 // U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said on Thursday the agency should look into how artificial-intelligence products use the data they gather from younger users, amid privacy and safety concerns.Holyoak, one...

#12 Bank of Japan Governor Warns AI Could Bring New Financial Stability Risks

Nov 21 2024 // Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday central banks must be mindful that technological advances, such as in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), could bring new risks to financial stability. “As...

#13 Cybersecurity in Insurance: Why Your Data and Compliance Can’t Afford to Slip

Nov 20 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Data is at the core of the insurance industry. From the smallest independent agencies to the largest legacy carriers, insurance organizations of all sizes house data....

#14 AI Used for Good and Bad — Like Making Trickier Malware, Says Report

Nov 26 2024 // While the insurance industry is quickly adopting AI technologies to improve the speed and accuracy of routine functions, analyze data and assess risk, malicious actors use the same tech to disrupt business and profit from...