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Imagine this scenario: you're worried you may have committed a crime, so you turn to a trusted advisor — OpenAI's blockbuster ChatGPT, say — to describe what you did and get its advice. This isn't remotely far-fetched; lots of people are already getting legal assistance from AI, on everything from divorce proceedings to parking violations. Because people are amazingly stupid, it's almost certain that people have already asked the bot for advice about enormously consequential questions about, say, murder or drug charges. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, anyone's who's done so has made a massive error — because unlike...

Chavez promotes officer accused in US trial International Herald Tribune, France CARACAS, Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez has promoted an army officer accused of acting as an unregistered agent of Venezuela to conceal the source of $800,000 in cash flown into Argentina last year. The government's Official Gazette reports that Army Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Jose Canchica was promoted to master sergeant this week. Canchica has been accused in an attempted cover-up over the origin of money that dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson tried to smuggle into Argentina. The money allegedly was destined for the 2007 campaign of Argentine...

BOSTON (Reuters) - If U.S. officials overhear talk of a planned murder or rape while eavesdropping on a telephone call under President George W. Bush's domestic spying program, what can they do -- within the law -- to stop it? "We don't know," said Harvard law professor and celebrated defense lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz. "Plainly we would not want them to ignore it" but no laws have been written to govern how the information can be used in court, he said. "We wouldn't even know where to look to find the law because there is no law," Dershowitz, one of...