A synthetic 'thirst-trap' profile on X and Instagram, posing as 'Derek Lam,' amassed over 31,000 and 40,000 followers respectively by posting AI-generated shirtless dancing clips and promoting paid ex…
AI-generated influencers like 'Derek Lam' are amassing tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and X by posting shirtless, dancing videos, with many fans unaware they are not real. These deepfakes st…
Americans are increasingly opposing data center construction, with 70% saying they would reject one in their area, driven by concerns over noise, energy, and water use. The backlash reflects deeper an…
The AI industry's super PAC, Leading the Future, spent heavily to defeat New York Assembly member Alex Bores in a congressional primary due to his support for AI safety regulations. Bores lost, but th…
AI companies like Anthropic are building powerful models without adequate regulation, echoing J. Robert Oppenheimer's 'technically sweet' justification for developing the hydrogen bomb. Anthropic co-f…
A renewed debate over whether chatbots like ChatGPT could be conscious has intensified, with prominent researchers including Geoffrey Hinton and leaders at Anthropic publicly raising the possibility t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined 85 other experts in signing an open letter calling for stronger regulations on gene synthesis, citing c…
President Donald Trump announced plans to meet with top AI executives to discuss a financial partnership that could give the U.S. government ownership stakes in major AI companies, with returns distri…
On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint claiming they had edited human embryonic DNA with unprecedented precision, a breakthrough that could eventually enable "designer babies" engineered…
A surge of AI-generated children's books is flooding the market with nonsensical content, such as instructions to use scissors as forks or images of zookeepers sweeping underwater, according to critic…
Americans are using the word "monoculture" to mourn the end of shared cultural experiences like Stephen Colbert's final episode, while simultaneously applying the same term to describe how algorithms …
A Vox report outlines a scenario where battlefield AI systems deployed during a standoff around Taiwan compress decision timelines and increase the risk of inadvertent nuclear escalation. The report d…
A fictional wargame scenario involving a Chinese AI system malfunctioning and killing US soldiers in a Taiwan standoff illustrates how artificial intelligence could inadvertently trigger a nuclear esc…
Vox published an essay by Yuliia Volkovska arguing that AI can replicate human-made art but cannot replace it, drawing an analogy to how the camera reshaped painting. A 2023 study cited by Vox found p…
Despite studies showing that lay people often prefer AI-generated art over human-made art when the source is unknown, participants consistently report wanting human-made art when told which is which. …
Americans are increasingly opposing AI data center construction in their communities, with 71% of respondents in a Gallup poll rejecting such facilities and communities blocking or delaying $64 billio…
At an invite-only symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences, a growing subculture of "AI successionists" argued that artificial intelligence should replace humanity as the next step in cosmic evol…
Vox reported on May 28, 2026 that a subculture of thinkers and technologists called "AI successionists" argues artificial intelligences should succeed humans as the next stage of moral and cognitive e…
Clinicians using AI-drafted patient messages often spend extra time reviewing and editing them, according to reporting from Vox. A National Bureau of Economic Research paper found access to a conversa…
Amazon's Alexa Plus, the upgraded AI assistant, can now generate AI-powered podcasts on virtually any topic using two AI-generated hosts. Users can provide a topic, review the planned overview, and ad…