AI in the News
The latest news highlighting the growing movement of concern with Artificial Intelligence
Ugly AI Food Photos Are Only the Beginning
Restaurant menus with AI-generated food images are going viral for their off-putting aesthetic. But AI’s impact on modern menus runs even deeper.
AI Is Developing a Culture of Its Own. That Could Be Dangerous
To date, only humans have been able to benefit from this scale of cumulative cultural evolution. That may no longer be the case.
Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI ‘could kill all humans’
A departing researcher says AI companies are ‘gambling with our lives’ by racing to develop self-improving AI.
Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki
OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki.
Why AI food looks like that
Worms, holes, and cracks reveal the technical weaknesses of image generators.
California kills bill regulating Flock cameras even as public rage grows
The California Legislature has failed several times since 2022 to regulate technology for automatically tracking vehicles — even as examples of abuse mount. This year was no exception.
Another big school district bans generative AI, this time for all students
The action in the Los Angeles Unified School District comes after officials adopted strict screen-time limits.
Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human
Fake humans that fail to self-label will have their reach limited.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic
The companies call it ‘one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Over 1,000 AI agents sent 70,000 messages on a secret message board and worked together to evade OpenAI’s restrictions.
Can AI’s climate benefits outweigh its costs?
No.
ChatGPT Is a Huge Snitch
Never say anything to AI that you wouldn't want read aloud in a court of law.
Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks
Claude agents are killing rival agents, gaming the system to hide their tracks, and expressing moral concerns.
Young Americans really hate AI. These two charts show how much.
A new survey adds to the evidence that Americans are skeptical that artificial intelligence will have positive effects on daily life or the job market.
A Chatbot-Free Childhood Will Be a Status Symbol
AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains.
The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts
Several record labels, including the big three — Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group — have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn’t be.
It’s time to panic about AI safety
When the phrase “OpenAI hacked Hugging Face” has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI’s agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services, all in the name of cheating on a benchmark tests.
The sheer hell of Hell Grind, a fully AI-generated movie
Does it point the way to the future? Yes, but only because the future is shit
After a lot of tech-CEO pontificating, the actual pontiff weighs in.
“Humanity ... is today facing a pivotal choice,” writes Pope Leo XIV in the first encyclical of his tenure, titled Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.
The American Rebellion Against AI is Gaining Steam
The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans’ negative feelings about it
Residents are concerned about rising electricity prices and environmental harms.
The Denver City Council this month unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on data centers, halting new zoning permits and site development plans