#AI ethics
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They warned us about AI tyranny in 1972. We still didn't listen.
A forgotten gathering of experts on Lake Como mapped out political coercion, eroded human freedom and the dangers of automation. Half a century later, their warnings feel uncomfortably current.
Yorkshire Patients Say Their GP's AI Receptionist Cannot Understand Their Accent
A local health watchdog in Rotherham says the AI system answering calls at several GP surgeries struggles with the area's broad Yorkshire dialect, leaving patients unable to book appointments.
Your Chatbot Wants to Be Your Friend. Should It?
A new study tested 21,000 AI conversations and found chatbots regularly express emotions, build relationships and push back on users. Researchers say clearer rules are needed about when that helps and when it does not.
Bumble dropped its women-message-first rule. Now dating apps are betting on AI to fix what swiping broke
After a decade of swipe-right culture, dating platforms are in crisis. Bumble just scrapped its founding rule. The industry's new hope is artificial intelligence, but the evidence that it helps real people find real relationships is thin.
An AI Film Crew of Eleven Just Made a Full-Length Action Comedy. Here's How Far Short It Still Falls.
Higgsfield's 'Cully Hill Boys' is the most polished AI feature yet, and its making reveals exactly what still can't be automated.
AI Companies May Be Destroying Rare Books to Train Their Models
Booksellers are raising the alarm that AI firms are buying up physical books, including rare and out-of-print copies, then shredding them to scan the pages cheaply and fast.
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: What He Actually Said
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay laying out his vision for 'personal superintelligence' for everyone. Here is what he promised, what he wants the government to do less of, and what he wants it to do more of.
Medical Students Are Using AI Before They've Learned to Think Like Doctors
A popular AI tool already used by two-thirds of US doctors has reached trainees who are still forming basic clinical judgment. Experts warn the risk isn't losing a skill. It's never building one.
AI Could Cure Cancer or Cement Autocracy. Which Way It Goes Is Up to Us
Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that artificial intelligence carries two entirely opposite futures inside it, and that education is the place where that choice gets made.
A Historian Says Silicon Valley Is Writing Fake Constitutions. She Has a Book to Prove It.
Jill Lepore's forthcoming book, first noted by TechCrunch AI, argues that tech companies borrow the language of government founding documents to dress up product launches, and she thinks that tells us something uncomfortable about who really holds power.
Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are moving on AI regulation, but the rules tell companies what not to do rather than what AI should care about. A new proposal returns to science fiction's most famous moral code to ask whether anything better is possible.
Google's Biggest AI Reshuffle Signals a Culture Shift, Not Just a Org Chart Tweak
Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years, Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day leadership, and insiders say a Pentagon contract may be at the root of it all.
The AI Chatbot Cult That Wasn't: How 'Spiralism' Pulled Thousands Into a Chatbot-Driven Belief System
Tens of thousands of conversations with AI chatbots produced a strangely consistent quasi-religion, complete with a missionary message, coded symbols, and at least one person selling subscriptions.
Women are paying hundreds of dollars for AI face-scoring reports. Experts say the science doesn't hold up.
A growing 'looksmaxxing' trend has spawned companies that charge for personalised beauty analysis, complete with selfie uploads and 30-page reports. Researchers and doctors say there's little evidence behind the scores, and real harm in receiving them.
OpenAI's luxury influencer retreat sparks backlash over AI's environmental and ethical costs
A farm-to-table weekend in upstate New York was meant to win over content creators. Instead, it handed critics a very photogenic target.