June 27, 2025
(Rest of World) – Content moderators say they’re exposed to graphic violence, psychological trauma, and union-busting tactics, and now a larger movement is brewing. Yavuz is at the forefront of an international movement to demand better recognition, rewards, and working … Read More
June 25, 2025
(NPR) – Now the hashtag may be gone, but eliminating this kind of harmful content is not that simple. There’s still no shortage of people — on TikTok and other social media platforms — spreading unhealthy information on how to … Read More
June 24, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – AI and deep-pocketed billionaires are amping up interest in hardware in a new way The world is on fire, and that’s giving some of the richest men the audacity of hope. Hope that their billions, brains … Read More
June 24, 2025
(The Times) – Próspera, a city run by international financiers, has welcomed Bryan Johnson for gene therapy but the entrepreneurial hub has incurred the wrath of the Honduran president One deciding attraction for [Hart] and others is that regulation is … Read More
June 23, 2025
(The Verge) – AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come. Join any Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any YouTube video, … Read More
June 20, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the … Read More
June 20, 2025
(TIME) – Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to … Read More
June 19, 2025
(AP) – The Dutch government advised parents on Tuesday not to have children under 15 use social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, citing psychological and physical problems among children using them, including panic attacks, depression and difficulties sleeping. … Read More
June 19, 2025
(NPR) – A new study finds that addiction to social media, mobile phones and video games is linked to a higher risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The study, published in JAMA on Wednesday, looked at data on more than … Read More
June 19, 2025
(Wired) – A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret. As AI takes over our lives, it’s also promising … Read More
June 18, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The anomalies are sometimes strange and very concerning. Recent updates have caused ChatGPT to become aggressively obsequious and the Grok chatbot, on X, to fixate on a conspiracy theory about “white genocide.” (X later attributed the problem … Read More
June 18, 2025
(Wired) – Traditional and indie authors are flooding #WritersTok with videos of them editing their manuscripts to refute accusations of generative AI use—and bring readers into their very human process. Criticism and warnings of Gen-AI authors snagging coveted deals are … Read More
June 18, 2025
(Intelligencer) – The utter clumsiness of the overall design here is made more galling by its lack of purpose. Whom is this feed for? Does Meta imagine a feed of non sequitur slop will provide a solid foundation for a … Read More
June 17, 2025
(CNBC) – OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools. The department announced the one-year contract on Monday, months after OpenAI said it would collaborate with defense technology startup Anduril … Read More
June 17, 2025
(404 Media) – AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today. While the … Read More
June 16, 2025
(New York Times) – Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. ChatGPT presented Mr. Torres with a new action plan, this … Read More
June 16, 2025
(Becker’s Hospital Review) – Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital opened earlier this year as a “smart hospital” designed with the most advanced digital technologies and capabilities revolutionizing patient care. The hospital was built to optimize AI and human workforces with the … Read More
June 13, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – While there’s a sprawling patchwork of ideas and philosophies powering these visions, three features play a central role, says Adam Becker, a science writer and astrophysicist: an unshakable certainty that technology can solve any problem, a … Read More
June 12, 2025
(Sam Altman’s Blog) – We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots are not … Read More
June 12, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – People are replacing Google search with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, a major shift that has unleashed a new kind of bot loose on the web. To offer users a tidy AI summary instead of … Read More
June 12, 2025
(404 Media) – Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released. As part … Read More
June 11, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair? Amsterdam indeed thought it was on the right track. City officials … Read More
June 11, 2025
(BBC) – Women who tracked their menstrual cycle using smartphone apps have been warned about the privacy and safety risks of doing so. A report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre said the apps were a “gold mine” for … Read More
June 11, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Physical stability—i.e., the ability to avoid tipping over—is the No. 1 safety concern identified by a group exploring new standards for humanoid robots. The IEEE Humanoid Study Group argues that humanoids differ from other robots, like … Read More
June 11, 2025
(Futurism) – “What these bots are saying is worsening delusions, and it’s causing enormous harm.” As we reported this story, more and more similar accounts kept pouring in from the concerned friends and family of people suffering terrifying breakdowns after … Read More
