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Future Society

Dude Asks AI Agent to Book Gym Spot, Accidentally Launches Autonomous Cyberattack

Now imagine what an actual hacker could do.

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Artificial Intelligence

Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots

"Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be."

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Ethics

Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains

This is genius.

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Ethics

Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office

"My friends chose to risk arrest to bring the fight to OpenAI."

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Google

Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the “Search” Button With a Bunch of AI

In search of lost button.

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Climate Change

It’s Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been

"If we’re exceeding records from the Dust Bowl, that says that we’re in deep trouble."

Stressed Stock Exchange Trader Can't Apprehend a Sudden Stock Market Collapse.
Ethics

AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots

"Capital can bridge the gap for a while, but not indefinitely."

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Ethics

Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

"The world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge."

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Ethics

Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT

"So I just make my own curriculum, and sometimes I'll just use, like, ChatGPT."

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The Industrialists

Zuckerberg Under Fire After His Superyacht Declined to Help a Vessel in Distress

"There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this."

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Meta

Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting

The hypocrisy is astounding.

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Astronomy

Scientists Warn That New Satellites Could Cause Eye Damage for People on the Ground

Terrifying.

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Ethics

USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir

They were "shocked" by the news and are calling for the company to "immediately end its partnership."

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Privacy

Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp

Flock could've gone mobile.

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Ethics

Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community

Residents were left in the dark for five years.

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Ethics

Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient

"Go to your parents and ask them: hey, like every time I get a chance to talk to my boss, ask me if I can have more days off."

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Climate Change

Droughts Are Getting So Intense That Ancient Ruins Are Beginning to Surface From Dried Up Rivers

"For archaeologists, these moments are ​extremely valuable."

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Drones

Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone

"One of the most valuable rescue tools we've ever owned."

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Cybersecurity

Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs

"They just had absolutely no idea."

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Food

Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce

Shredded lettuce? We've got jacked lettuce now, kid.