This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro

From Anthropic's new rules that bar users from engaging in repeated, severe cruelty or verbal abuse directed at Claude, to AI helping fight wildfires out West; today's show is all about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the expanding, developing, and ever more consequential world of artificial intelligence.

Listen now for some of this week's biggest tech stories from ABC News, as well as my own DIY home improvement adventures with ChatGPT.

Today we've got great news about how Tech startups, entrepreneurs, and established companies can get help to succeed, and prosper in Northeast Ohio.

Listen now, as we talk with Akron's Bounce Innovation Hub President and CEO, Jessica Sublett, as well as McKelvey Packard, who organized Cleveland's second annual Tech Week, which is going on through tomorrow, October 3. 
For more information about Bounce Innovation Hub, go Bouncehub.org, and for Cleveland Tech Week schedule of events, visit Cletechweek.com/#events.

This week, high stakes political fallout, and concern about data centers in Ohio, an AI-based dispute between Meta and Amazon, and a major hack on the FBI, which exposed confidential information of thousands of applicants, agents, and even–reportedly–FBI Director, Kash Patel.

To find out more, I talked with two ABC Radio News national correspondents; Technology Reporter, Mike Dobuski, and Former FBI Agent and Profiler, Brad Garrett, who is now working with ABC News as a Crime & Terrorism Analyst.

Pharmacies make it pretty easy these days to pick up a prescription, with convenient options like drive-through pickup windows, and mail order delivery.

But, what if you’re too sick, injured, or disabled  to stop by the drugstore, or need your prescription more quickly than you can get it by mail?

Well, now you can get it by drone, if you live within five miles of the Cleveland Clinic’s Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center, in Northeast Ohio.

Listen now as we talk about their first in the nation drone home delivery pharmacy service, with the Manager of that program; Pharmacist Bri Robinson.

This week it is all about big tech, big money, and big consequences, as Meta agreed to a nearly $18 billion dollar settlement with Attorneys General from dozens of States and four US territories, who sued over claims that their social media platforms were hooking and harming children and teens.

$318 million dollars of that settlement, which will be paid in installments over the next ten years, is coming to the State of Ohio, where Attorney General Andy Wilson says it “marks a significant step toward fundamentally transforming how the entire social media industry designs products for kids and teens.”

Also this week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) settled a lawsuit with Tik-Tok and Byte Dance for $400 million dollars, to resolve children’s privacy issues, and the streaming platform Twitch and its parent company, Amazon, got hit with a class-action lawsuit related to non-consensual use of user data to train AI.

Elon Musk is making headlines again as well, with plans to build a build a massive $100 billion commercial spaceport called Starbase, in Louisiana.

But what really hit home for me this week, is Bill Gates coming out against allowing big tech companies to continue to “self regulate” AI.

He’s calling instead for national coordinating bodies, and new international organization to manage what he describes as the “turbulent” transition to the AI era.

But all is not doom and gloom.

We’ve also got news about what sounds like a very cool and interesting event coming up next month in Northeast Ohio.

“IngenuityFest: America Dreams” promises to transform Cleveland with art, music, technology and innovation, September 25-27.

Listen now.