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Ethics

Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever

"AI doesn't need a Chernobyl moment."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History

"The empirical evidence of fraud is overwhelming."

By Victor Tangermann

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Solar Power

Venture Capitalists Disgusted by Solar Power Because It’s Generating Too Much Clean Electricity to Be Grossly Profitable

How can they print more money if electricity prices are so affordable?

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly

He's back to name-calling his critics.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children

"I could go on and on."

By Victor Tangermann

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Future Society

You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae

You can't make this stuff up.

By Victor Tangermann

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Anthropic

Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable

Did the economist remember to ask what humans may think of that?

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."

By Victor Tangermann

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Future Society

Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI

Sorry, AI "artists."

By Frank Landymore

A view of wild fire as firefighting planes and helicopters drop water over flames in Mandeville Canyon during 'Palisades Fire' in Los Angeles, California, United States on January 10, 2025.

Finance

Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires

"You can't predict fire, but you can trade on it."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google

"Maybe we just have to accept that the A24 era is over."

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

"It's like being in an abusive marriage... I'm sitting here dealing with somebody that isn't living in reality."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A screenshot of Maye Musk's post on X featuring two images, one of Elon Musk blowing out candles on a cake, the other an image of the cake. Beneath them, a label indicates that they were made with AI.

Future Society

Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad

"You made your son's birthday picture with AI?"

By Victor Tangermann

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Astronomy

NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission

It's a race against time.

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them

Data centers "have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating."

By Joe Wilkins

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Developments

Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers

"Before the driver knows what's happened, the pedestrian's head is under the wheel."

By Frank Landymore

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Developments

We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound

Scientists are highly skeptical.

By Victor Tangermann

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Privacy

Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

"We didn’t receive anything in the mail. I double checked to make sure that there was no emails or anything about it."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims

"The universe may contain minds stranger than we can imagine."

By Victor Tangermann

A sinkhole with a diameter of 15 meters and a depth of 5 meters has formed in the village of Suduragi, Karaman, Turkiye, on August 25, 2025.

Climate Change

Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland

"Attacked by a cosmic hole punch."

By Victor Tangermann

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Read the latest articles from Futurism

Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever

Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History

Venture Capitalists Disgusted by Solar Power Because It’s Generating Too Much Clean Electricity to Be Grossly Profitable

Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly

Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children

You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae

Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable

Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI

Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires

A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad

NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission

AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them

Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers

We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound

Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims

Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland

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