The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

Original publisher: MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com)

Canonical URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/09/1146250/the-download-ai-refusal-problem-weight-loss-drug-side-effects/

Summary excerpt

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…