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Ethics

Poll Finds Overwhelming Majority Disgusted by Trump’s Relationship With AI Industry, Saying He’s Using the Tech to Tear Down Democracy

"These Big AI goliaths think they can buy off our government, our elections, our leaders, and our future and nobody will notice."

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Pathogens

America Getting Lesson in Consequences of Trump’s War on Public Health as Rare Disease Outbreaks Ravage the Country

Feeling healthy yet?

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Military

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

"When those lights go out, man, you know you are in big trouble."

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Future Society

Cops Mistype Username, Send Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months

"He should never have been charged, let alone convicted."

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Ethics

Sam Altman’s Parenting Strategy Sounds Low Key Horrifying

"What if you just talked to your children."

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Tesla

Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving

Its autonomous test fleet in Houston were 24/7 "rolling hazards," he warned.

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SpaceX

SpaceX Vows to Keep Poisoning Nearby Towns With Its Fume-Belching Data Center For Another Year

"We care deeply about being good neighbors."

Demonstrators wave signs during a nationwide protest against AI data center expansion in Imperial, California.
Ethics

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding

People are rising up everywhere.

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Privacy

Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows

"The public has been asked to accept a significant expansion of surveillance based on the promise that it would dramatically improve public safety."

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Ethics

OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported

Is OpenAI trying to spin us a yarn?

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Future Society

We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Offered Job Interviews in Exchange for Getting a Company Tattoo

"If you're reaching out to us to apply for a job, you might want to take notes."

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Biology

Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut

Gotta fund your research somehow.

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Ethics

The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives

"I hear people champion AI and I'm like, 'sure, why don't we all participate in our collective downfall?'"

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Elon Musk

Columbia Economist Baffled as to Why the Masses Aren’t Rising Up Against Elon Musk

"To have a trillionaire in our midst ruptures the social bargain in such a dramatic way."

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Agriculture

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

Horrifying.

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Meta

FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps

"These two tools automatically tracked and disclosed certain [actions] to Meta."

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Artificial Intelligence

A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come

Careful who you trust your billions of dollars with.

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Ethics

Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop

Those were the days.

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Ethics

Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason

"Unfortunately, we are no longer able to authenticate how the manuscript fully evolved from origin to completion."

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Military

Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map

That's one way to deal with data centers.