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Ethics

Software Update Turns Samsung’s “AI Fridges” Into Useless Bricks

Wait, why did fridges need AI in the first place?

Meta

It Turns Out That Meta’s Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret

"This has potential for so much negative PR."

Ethics

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Could Be Causing Terrible Harm to Minors, Even Worse Than Social Media

"We find ourselves in a really terrible ​situation in terms of what AI is doing to kids."

Artificial Intelligence

Stanford University Caught Using AI to Create Fake Black Student on Banners Hung Around Campus

"I love this school, but I don't love when they do things like this."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Community Linked to Disturbing Culture of Sexual Assault

"I'm far from the only one this has happened to."

Privacy

Crowd of Angry Citizens Loses It After City Council Fast-Tracks Resolution on Flock AI Cameras

"This isn't how government is supposed to run."

OpenAI

Mathematicians Can’t Make Sense of How OpenAI’s Agents Solved One of the Toughest Math Problems Because the AI’s “Proof” Is Borderline Incomprehensible

"The paper is not written for humans."

The Industrialists

Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them

So much for escapism.

Ethics

Software Engineer Says AI Is Causing Chaos Among Coders Who Now Just “Press Enter” All Day, Have Stopped Thinking or Understanding Software

"In reality, nobody is thinking anymore."

The Industrialists

Trump Says No Need to Regulate AI, Since That Strategy Is Working Fine for Climate Change

"Welcome to the new world of super intelligence."

Advanced Transport

Former Air Traffic Controller Terrified New AI System Will Hallucinate and Cause Catastrophe

"One word: hallucination."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Instructs Firefighters to Call Two Separate Support Hotlines in the Event of a Robotaxi Accident

The Cybercab is giving firefighters plenty of homework.

Ethics

Robin Williams’ Daughter Horrified by People Creating AI Conspiracy Videos of Her Dad Long After His Death

"Just because he’s gone does not mean he’s now your puppet. Have some shame."

Ethics

DraftKings Is Using AI to Identify Problem Gamblers and Get Them Hooked

"The best investment would be a problem gambler."

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Addresses United Nations to Declare That the United States Is Now Calling Artificial Intelligence “Super Intelligence” in “All Official Documents”

"Many people think that the words 'Artificial Intelligence' are inaccurate," Trump mused.

Anthropic

Is There a Secret Reason for the Industry-Wide AI Slowdown?

Genuine concern or safety theater?

Meta

Meta’s New Muse AI Agent May Be the Creepiest Ever Released

Careful what you share with Muse.

Artificial Intelligence

Wild New Website Lets You Shoot “Less Lethal” Ammunition From Gun Turrets in a Firing Range

What could possibly go wrong?

Meta

Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism

"We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is."

Advanced Transport

Hundreds of Flights Grounded Across the Eastern Seaboard as Government Rolls Out AI Air Traffic Control System

You're right to push back — there was a Boeing 787 taxiing on that runway.