AI News Archive
Older news highlighting the growing movement of concern with Artificial Intelligence
Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.
Middle-Schoolers Are Seeking Out AI Friends Instead of Real Human Ones
Young adolescents who turn to chatbots for companionship feel more lonely, new study says
AI Arrived at the Worst Possible Moment
AI is not arriving in a world capable of receiving it. Instead, it is coming into a world that has spent the last two decades systematically dismantling the very foundations that would allow us to deploy such a powerful technology responsibly.
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers.
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
U.S. Almost Went to War With China Thanks to AI-Hallucinated Intel
Earlier this year, the U.S. came super close to adding China to the Iran War after an alarming new intelligence report indicated that a Chinese ship was transporting nuclear components in the Middle East
Top AI leaders unite to warn the technology is advancing too fast
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, long at odds with each other, found common ground in calling for a slowdown in AI amid mounting fears about its dangers.
Man who posed as SF 49er to scam women tricked AI, Google, court docs say
Artificial intelligence may have inadvertently given a hand to a man who prosecutors say posed as a wealthy San Francisco 49ers player in order to scam women on dating apps.
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