March 30, 2026
(Nature) – Even people who were sceptical of chatbots’ utility fell under the sway of the AI tools’ flattery. The website Reddit has a popular forum called “Am I the Asshole?” on which users can receive unvarnished feedback on their … Read More
March 30, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Cryonic preservation is pricey and might never work. Some people think it’s worth it anyway. Over the past few years, I’ve spoken to people who run cryonics facilities, study cryopreservation, or just want to be cryogenically … Read More
March 30, 2026
(Science) – The PCAST roster contains few academics and women U.S. President Donald Trump today unveiled a set of scientific advisers heavily skewed toward artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, topics his administration has emphasized. The roster, unlike previous iterations … Read More
March 25, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – New research can’t yet say whether AI causes delusions or amplifies them, a distinction that will shape everything from high-profile court cases to safety rules for chatbots. A group at Stanford that focuses on the psychological … Read More
March 25, 2026
(WSJ) – Jurors found the companies negligent and said their app designs caused harm to children A jury found Instagram’s owner Meta and YouTube negligent for operating a product that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those … Read More
March 24, 2026
(CNET) – The New Mexico ruling comes as a Los Angeles jury is still debating whether Meta’s social media platforms are addictive to children. A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that Meta violated the state’s consumer protection laws by misleading … Read More
March 24, 2026
(The Atlantic) – Even as they claim the right to train their models on work belonging to other people, the AI companies have rejected similar reasoning when it comes to their own products. Consider OpenAI’s terms of service for ChatGPT, … Read More
March 20, 2026
(The Atlantic) – When I set out to report on the sports-betting industry—its explosive growth, its sudden cultural ubiquity, and what it’s doing to America—my editors thought I should experience the phenomenon firsthand. Mindful of my religious constraints, they proposed … Read More
March 20, 2026
(Wired) – After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable. Amaurie’s case is part of a growing number of lawsuits brought by parents who say their children died … Read More
March 19, 2026
(The Atlantic) – OpenAI’s own data show that use of ChatGPT was pretty evenly split between work and personal cases in 2024, but by 2025, 73 percent of conversations with ChatGPT were personal, not for work. (The Atlantic entered a … Read More
March 18, 2026
(BBC) – Organisations worldwide are racing to develop a universally recognised label for “human-made” products and services as part of the growing backlash against AI use. Declarations like “Proudly Human”, “Human-made”, ‘”No A.I” and “AI-free” are appearing across films, marketing, … Read More
March 17, 2026
(NYTs) – For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and degrade our character. Legally and politically, platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube have been protected by … Read More
March 16, 2026
(Gizmodo) – While speaking with Adebayo Ogunlesi (who happens to be a member of OpenAI’s board of directors), Altman said, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on … Read More
March 13, 2026
(The Guardian) – Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media “How did they become such behemoths?” Mark Lanier, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said during closing arguments in … Read More
March 13, 2026
(Aeon) – Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time These publications and technologies existed alongside serious thought. The penny dreadfuls didn’t prevent Charles Dickens, John Stuart … Read More
March 13, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Artificial intelligence is supercharging surveillance, and the law has not caught up with it. The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: … Read More
March 12, 2026
(New York Times) – The journal Nature in January published an unusual paper: A team of artificial intelligence researchers had discovered a relatively simple way of turning large language models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, from friendly assistants into vehicles of cartoonish … Read More
March 12, 2026
(404 Media) – Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows. As their conversation turned from broken … Read More
March 11, 2026
(TechCrunch) – Amazon announced on Tuesday that it’s expanding access to its healthcare AI assistant to its website and app. The assistant, called Health AI, was previously only available on the app for One Medical, the healthcare company Amazon acquired … Read More
March 10, 2026
(Quartz) – Novo Nordisk and Hims had clashed on and off for months as the telehealth firm marketed compounded versions of Novo’s blockbuster GLP-1 drug Wegovy Hims & Hers and the Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk have ended a bitter … Read More
March 9, 2026
(Nature) – Scientists are studying forms of ‘social’ interactions between artificial-intelligence agents. Will they find a fresh form of sociology, or merely a sophisticated mime act? Joon Sung Park, one of Simile’s co-founders, and his team have been studying social … Read More
March 9, 2026
(Vox) – AI is teaching teenagers about love now. It’s not necessarily the guys you might expect, Apollo Knapp told me. These are 6-foot-tall high-school athletes, guys who are social and popular. “They’re the type of people that are friends … Read More
March 5, 2026
(WSJ) – A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. Jonathan Gavalas embarked on several real-world missions … Read More
March 4, 2026
(Forbes) – Major artificial intelligence companies may have age policies in place to restrict the use of their models by children, but that isn’t stopping a growing number of developers from using generative AI chatbots in toys sold globally that … Read More
March 4, 2026
(Ars Technica) – Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said. The finding, from … Read More
