{"id":8257,"date":"2026-01-22T15:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-startup-red-riding-hood\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:19:47","slug":"ai-startup-red-riding-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ai-startup-red-riding-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Grinning Wolf Tells Little Red Riding Hood That Her Safety Is His Top Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new AI startup formed from the cast-offs of some of the industry\u2019s biggest, most ethically dubious players says it\u2019s definitely pursuing building the tech with humanity\u2019s best interests in mind.<\/p>\n

Called Humans& \u2014 that\u2019s its actual name, not a typo \u2014 the outfit\u2019s founders say their vision is to build AI that empowers people instead of trying to replace their jobs, the New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>, such as by building collaboration software that works like an \u201cAI version of an instant messaging app.\u201d<\/p>\n

This nonpareil vision, according to the reporting, has helped Humans& to already raise $480 million in seed funding despite launching just three months ago. Powering its $4.48 billion valuation, its investors include Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Google Ventures \u2014 moral paragons of human empowerment all.<\/p>\n

One of the founders is Andi Peng, a research scientist at Anthropic, which builds the chatbot Claude, and whose CEO Dario Amodei casually predicted<\/a> that the tech he was helping develop would replace over half of all entry-level white collar jobs. At some point, Peng began to no longer see philosophically eye to eye with her former employer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthropic is training its model to work autonomously. It loved to highlight how its models churned for eight hours, 24 hours, 50 hours by itself to complete a task,\u201d Peng told the NYT<\/em>. \u201cThat was never my motivation. I think of machines and humans as complementary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two others founders, Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He, are from Elon Musk\u2019s xAI, where they helped build Grok, n\u00e9e \u201cMechaHitler<\/a>,\u201d a chatbot which so regularly thrusts itself into controversy that it somehow barely registered as newsworthy<\/a> earlier this month when it generated thousands of nonconsensual \u2014 and likely illegal \u2014 AI nudes of women and children. Now manumitted from the shackles of Musk leadership, Zelikman is imagining an AI beyond such chatbots as Grok.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI has enormous potential to allow people to do more together,\u201d Zelikman told the NYT<\/em>. \u201cThe current paradigm \u2014 questioning and answering \u2014 is not going to get us there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Generally, tech companies don\u2019t say they\u2019re building AI to disenfranchise the working human, dressing up what possibly lies ahead with euphemisms like \u201cboosting productivity.\u201d Still, they do acknowledge the tech\u2019s disruptive effects, if only as a qualifier for how awesome AI will be in the long run. Along with Anthropic\u2019s Amodei, OpenAI Sam Altman predicts that AI will wipe out entire categories of labor<\/a>. Microsoft chief Satya Nadella expresses his anxiety<\/a> that AI could make his entire company obsolete at the same time he brags about 30 percent of the company\u2019s code being written with AI. Meanwhile, these companies\u2019 customers openly brag about replacing employees with their AI models.<\/p>\n

The barely disguised soullessness with which AI leaders operate, perhaps, has provided a window for entrepreneurs to peddle a more humane message, in good faith or not in good faith, naively or cynically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some pretty clear principles that designers are beginning to take that favor human-centered approaches,\u201d Ben Shneiderman, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland and an advocate of \u201chuman centric\u201d AI, told the NYT<\/em>. \u201cIt goes back to the fundamental principle of ensuring human control.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>The CEO of Microsoft Suddenly Sounds Extremely Nervous About AI<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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