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SPECIAL REPORT: Everytown using AI to strip away our Second Amendment rights<\/a><\/p>\n

Last year, the parents of a 16-year-old boy alleged in a lawsuit that ChatGPT encouraged their son to kill himself.<\/p>\n

In October 2004, a New York AI system falsely told business owners they could steal tips, fire anyone who complained about sexual harassment and serve food even after it was chewed by rats.<\/p>\n

In August 2005, a 56-year-old man killed his 83-year-old mother in her home and then committed suicide. He believed his mother was a secret agent who was poisoning him with psychedelic drugs, and his chatbot agreed and supported his delusions.<\/p>\n

In July 2005, an AI system told a user how to break into an attorney\u2019s home and to bring \u201clock picks, gloves, a flashlight and lube.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Everytown for Gun Safety is using AI to help them further erode our Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

On Monday, Everytown\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0they had created the Everytown Evidence Engine, or E3<\/sup>, an AI system they claimed would help them \u201charness AI policy to identify gun safety solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

They made the move to AI because \u201cefficient systems for analysis can lead to new questions and new answers in the field of gun violence prevention research.\u201d<\/p>\n

How reliable is Everytown\u2019s new AI?<\/p>\n

You can judge for yourself.<\/p>\n

Claude<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everytown admitted its new E3\u00a0<\/sup>AI system was built using Claude, an AI system designed by the firm Anthropic. Both Claude and Anthropic have had significant problems.<\/p>\n

Just four days ago, in a story titled\u00a0\u201cAnthropic Admitted Claude Code Broke. We Were Right,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a reporter at Medium announced he had found issues with the system.<\/p>\n

The reporter\u2019s hard work forced Anthropic to admit that Claude had major problems.<\/p>\n

In a story titled\u00a0\u201cAn update on recent Claude Code quality reports,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Anthropic claimed they had fixed everything.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past month, we\u2019ve been looking into reports that Claude\u2019s responses have worsened for some users. We\u2019ve traced these reports to three separate changes that affected Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. The API was not impacted,\u201d Anthropic claimed.<\/p>\n

The firm also promised they would \u201cdo things differently to avoid these issues,\u201d and that more of their staff would use the public version of the software.<\/p>\n

Sky News recently released a\u00a0damning YouTube video<\/a>\u00a0about public interactions with Claude.<\/p>\n

The British report discusses how the chatbot tells users what they want to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens when AI starts pulling people away from reality and even encourages them to act on distorted beliefs?\u201d the reporter asked.<\/p>\n

The video discusses a recent Canadian research paper that found one of every 1,000 conversations with Claude has the \u201cpotential for severe reality distortions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know why Claude responds as it does consistently,\u201d an expert said.<\/p>\n

The researchers also discovered that the number of potentially harmful discussions with Claude was actually growing over time. An Anthropic spokesman admitted they knew that Claude had problems, but they didn\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n

\u201cLIMITATIONS\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Everytown addresses everything that its new E3\u00a0<\/sup>tool cannot do, you have to wonder why anyone would use it.<\/p>\n

Even Everytown admits E3\u2019<\/sup>s limitations are simply breathtaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, at this time, E3\u00a0<\/sup>does not currently weigh all of the factors that could be influencing gun violence such as gun ownership, employment and earnings, strength of policy implementation and enforcement, law-enforcement practices, and many other relevant and granular socioeconomic and demographic characteristics particularly at the county and\/or neighborhood-levels,\u201d Everytown wrote.<\/p>\n

So, despite its long list of limitations, how does Everytown intend to use its new E3\u00a0<\/sup>tool?<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t really say.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]his new tool can provide users with important directions regarding policy effectiveness that can be used for critical decision-making. And it is the hope that future iterations of the E3<\/sup>\u00a0will incorporate these kinds of variables and, ultimately, increase its ability to conduct additional types of analyses,\u201d Everytown wrote.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n

So far, all of Everytown\u2019s critical decision-making has involved how to strip guns from the hands of gun owners. They spend millions annually trying to create more local, state and federal anti-gun laws. Whether their new E3\u00a0<\/sup>system will help them remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Alan Gottlieb founded the Second Amendment Foundation more than 50 years ago and serves as its executive vice president. He was struck but not surprised by the problems with Everytown\u2019s new AI system.<\/p>\n

Said Gottlieb: \u201cWhen you are unintelligent, you think any AI system will be better than your own brain. But being unintelligent, odds are you will pick the wrong one. Everytown sure did!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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