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AI "godfather" Geoffrey Hinton wants to give AI a "maternal instinct" so it doesn't kill us. One problem: does the "maternal instinct" exist?

Artificial Intelligence

The “Godfather of AI” Has a Bizarre Plan to Save Humanity From Evil AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI by Google DeepMind called Aeneas is designed to investigate ancient texts, looking for patterns and clues.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Teach AI to Think About the Roman Empire

By Sharon Adarlo

Billionaire Elon Musk has rolled out AI companions, which seemingly contradicts his opinion on how people should increase the birth rate.

If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?

By Sharon Adarlo

AI tech startups have adopted the 996 work schedule from China, which entails people working a total of 72 hours per week.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

By Sharon Adarlo

AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of chatbots like ChatGPT — and health experts are taking notice.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon is building a vast complex of AI data centers on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland in Indiana for a huge and powerful AI model.

Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain

By Sharon Adarlo

Tech workers are bemoaning the impact of AI as the technology replaces workers or makes the work process worse.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Workers Say They’re Rapidly Being Replaced by AI

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's ChatGPt recently suggested to a Reddit user to put vinegar and bleach together, which would make a poisonous gas.

ChatGPT Tells User to Mix Bleach and Vinegar

By Sharon Adarlo

In a podcast clip that's going around the internet, The Heritage Foundation grapples with what happens without AI regulation.

Artificial Intelligence

The Architects of Project 2025 Are Suddenly Very Concerned About AI Safety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People are asking OpenAI's ChatGPT advice for how to perform cosmetic procedures at home that usually require medical professionals.

People Are Asking ChatGPT for Advice on Injecting Their Own Facial Filler, a Cosmetic Procedure That Should Only Be Carried Out by Licensed Medical Professionals

By Sharon Adarlo

A psychologist has noticed that people are anxious about AI and have existential questions about their purpose now.

Artificial Intelligence

People Being Replaced by AI Are Suffering a Deep Sense of Worthlessness

By Sharon Adarlo

AI models that are bigger in size compared to smaller models are estimated to use more energy, emit more carbon, and are more accurate.

Scientists Just Found Something Unbelievably Grim About Pollution Generated by AI

By Sharon Adarlo

A new pre-print study from Stanford researchers finds that AI chatbots used for therapy routinely fail at providing safe, ethical care.

Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Research Finds That “Therapist” Chatbots Are Encouraging Users’ Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"MEDVi," a sketchy online market for GLP-1 drugs, is using AI to spin up terrible ads — and, insidiously, to deepfake pictures of "patients."

Artificial Intelligence

This Sleazy GLP-1 Prescription Site Is Using Deepfaked “Before-and-After” Photos of Fake Patients, and Running Ads Showing AI-Generated Ozempic Boxes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs, if Dario Amodei is to be believed.

CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

Unemployment among recent college grads is rising, and research suggests artificial intelligence is to blame.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Destroying Gen Z’s Chances at a Stable Career

A new company backed by Lance Armstrong just raised $4 million dollars to track your stool and urine using artificial intelligence.

New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI

Over 100 organizations have signed a letter pushing back against a sweeping bill that would ban all AI regulation for the next ten years.

Artificial Intelligence

Dozens of Organizations Push Back Against Bill That Would Ban All AI Regulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google and Character.AI tried to dismiss a lawsuit that claims chatbots caused a 14-year-old's suicide. The case is moving forward.

Artificial Intelligence

Judge Slaps Down Attempt to Throw Out Lawsuit Claiming AI Caused a 14-Year-Old’s Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Journalists at The Chicago Sun-Times are speaking out following the paper's publishing of AI-generated misinformation.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalists at Chicago Newspaper “Deeply Disturbed” That “Disaster” AI Slop Was Printed Alongside Their Real Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop

Artificial Intelligence

Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The paper on AI and scientific discovery has now become a black eye on MIT's reputation.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Disavowed a Viral Paper Claiming That AI Leads to More Scientific Discoveries

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that newer AI models can omit key details from text summaries as much as 73 percent of the time.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data

World leaders being shown baby versions of themselves at a global summit.

Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Shown AI Baby Versions of Themselves at European Summit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI tool called Track is being used as a workaround to the current laws against facial recognition, not to improve the tech.

Facial recognition

The Hot New AI Tool in Law Enforcement Is a Workaround for Places Where Facial Recognition Is Banned

By Foster Kamer

An OnlyFans model was shocked to find that a scammer had stolen her content — and used it to flood Reddit with AI deepfakes.

Artificial Intelligence

OnlyFans Model Shocked After Finding Her Pictures With AI-Swapped Faces on Reddit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former software engineer of 20 years is sounding the alarm on the reality of AI taking over the workplace.

A Software Engineer Who Was Replaced by AI Was Forced to Live in a Trailer After Getting Rejected from 800 Jobs

Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.

Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Copyright Office released a report that could be bad for powerful AI companies. The next day, the agency's head was fired.

Artificial Intelligence

The US Copyright Chief Was Fired After Raising Red Flags About AI Abuse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The media giant Gannett is using AI to "automatically generate" content about lottery scores and tickets in local newspapers across the US.

Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI's desire to please is becoming a danger to humankind as users turn to it to confirm misinformation, race science, and conspiracy theories.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Brown-Nosing Is Becoming a Huge Problem for Society

A new study is revealing just how horrible AI is at grading student homework, and the results are worse than you think.

Artificial Intelligence

Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students’ Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don’t Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete

A new analysis found that humans stand to lose way more than we gain by shoehorning AI into our day to day work.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Concerned That AI Is Making Us Stupider

One heavily vested venture capitalist is still inflating the bubble on AI hype, claiming lawyers and HR workers are on the chopping block.

Artificial Intelligence

Investor Says AI Is Already “Fully Replacing People”

Sam Altman says OpenAI is spending "tens of millions of dollars" processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.

Sam Altman Admits That Saying “Please” and “Thank You” to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power

Bombshell reporting just revealed a massive database contract between ICE and Palantir, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

Artificial Intelligence

Government Hires Controversial AI Company to Spy on “Known Populations”

New investigative reporting has uncovered a tech giant in the middle of a cruel AI-powered border dystopia.

Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System

Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

New footage has found that Musk's xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility.

Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center

A quack TV doctor turned national health insurance administrator has some insane new ideas about American healthcare.

Artificial Intelligence

The TV Show Host Who’s Now In Charge Of Medicare Wants To Replace Doctors With AI

A cybersecurity researcher's shocking discovery has uncovered a rampant trove of deepfakes, highlighting the need for more AI regulation.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Startup Deletes Entire Website After Researcher Finds Something Disgusting There

As the economy roils and tensions escalate, China has dealt a devastating blow to Donald Trump in the form of an AI music video.

China Attacks Trump With Sassy AI-Generated Music Video

Trump's lofty tariffs are set to impact the tech industry in a huge way, and will hit the young AI sector particularly hard.

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Bruising Defeat for the AI Industry

CoreWeave's public debut struggles highlight the AI industry's challenges, with disappointing performance casting doubt on its future.

Artificial Intelligence

AI’s “Biggest Test” Is Turning Into a Catastrophe as CoreWeave Flounders

There's a storm brewing as the first-of-its-kind AI startup struggles to go public, let alone revolutionize the tech industry.

Artificial Intelligence

CoreWeave’s Huge IPO Is Becoming a Disaster, Spelling Trouble for the AI Industry

A Norwegian man learned the hard way that when it comes to AI, truth and accuracy aren't exactly big priorities.

Man Annoyed When ChatGPT Tells Users He Murdered His Children in Cold Blood

A handy new search engine is helping writers and artists find out if their work was illegally used to train AI.

Cool Site Shows Exactly Which Books Zuckerberg’s Minions Illegally Downloaded to Train Meta’s AI

Taco Bell Piles on More AI While Customers Plead “Just Bring Back The Enchirito”

Taco Bell Piles on More AI While Customers Plead “Just Bring Back The Enchirito”

Drivers for rideshare giants like Uber say they're being suddenly deactivated on the apps, with no fair process to dispute the decision.

Advanced Transport

Uber Drivers Say They’re Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It

Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.

Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sam Altman, OpenAI's billionaire founder, gestures toward himself in front of an illustrated geometric background.

Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI

Recently uncovered documents have revealed a NASA purchasing order for a license to use Clearview AI, a contentious surveillance startup.

Artificial Intelligence

NASA Caught Purchasing Controversial AI Surveillance Software

Yale Law Scholar Suspended After AI Calls Her a Terrorist

Yale Law Scholar Suspended After AI Calls Her a Terrorist

Pinterest is the latest tech company to update its privacy policies to allow it to scrape user data for AI training.

Artificial Intelligence

Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

High-skilled freelancers are finding their wages suppressed as job opportunities drop, all thanks to the introduction of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI

One of the richest men on the planet has decided to grab the golden calf and milk AI hype for all it's worth.

The Cofounder of Google Has a Secret New AI Startup

Microsoft modified a lawsuit to name four people who allegedly jailbroke its AI tools to for abuses like deepfaked celebrity porn.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A top boss at Google has made it clear that employees should make enormous sacrifices to develop AGI, as long as it makes him money.

Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them

Pinterest is drowning in a torrent of slick-looking AI slop. Users are frustrated — while SEO spammers fueling the problem are celebrating.

Artificial Intelligence

Pinterest Is Being Strangled by AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

President Trump posted a baffling AI-generated video promoting his vision for "Trump Gaza" — bearded belly dancers and all?

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Posts AI-Generated Video of Genderqueer Bellydancers Frolicking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A shocking startup pitch backed by Y Combinator is causing a firestorm for its depiction of human workers as anonymous drones.

Artificial Intelligence

Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”

A new analysis predicts that AI hype might drastically disrupt the economy well before the tech is ready to transform our lives.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype Will Plunge America Into Financial Ruin, Economist Warns

A new study reveals that the impacts of AI data centers may include a global increase in cancer and asthma resulting from air pollution.

AI Linked to Growing Cancer Risk