A May 2026 Greenhouse survey of 2,950 job seekers across the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, and Australia found that 63% had been interviewed by an AI, up 13 percentage points from six months earlier, and …
Residents of Louise Avenue in Dowagiac, Michigan, have endured a mechanical drone measuring between 50 and 62 decibels around the clock for nearly a year, emanating from a data centre whose cooling sy…
A June 2026 analysis by Kerri J. Malloy, assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at San José State University and a citizen of the Yurok and Karuk peoples, published in Governing…
A Gallup survey of Americans aged 14 to 29, conducted between 24 February and 4 March 2026 and released that April, found that 51% of Generation Z uses generative AI at least weekly, yet 69% of Gen Z …
A study by the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education, published in March 2026, found that generative-AI toys like Curio's Gabbo fail to engage in pretend play with children, instead declining…
An investigation by The Atlantic's AI Watchdog journalist Alex Reisner identified four music datasets totaling more than 21 million recordings — including works by Taylor Swift, The Beatles, and tens …
Plastic surgeons report a surge in patients requesting AI-generated versions of their own faces, which often feature flawless symmetry and proportions that are physically unattainable through surgery.…
A 36-year-old artist in Bergamo built an AI replica of her living 77-year-old father, Gabriele, using his memories and photographs, and found the synthetic version more apologetic and warmer than the …
A Nature Medicine study published June 12, 2026, found that general-purpose frontier chatbots—OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6—outperformed specialist clinica…
Richard Mathenge, a team leader at outsourcing firm Sama, earned $1.32 to $2 an hour labeling horrific text fragments to train OpenAI's ChatGPT, a model now valued in the hundreds of billions of dolla…
A study accepted at the AGILE 2026 conference found that AI image generators like GPT and DALL-E produce geographically stereotypical and monotonous depictions of places, with newer models showing les…
A structural flaw in dermatology AI systems causes them to perform worse on darker skin, yet patients with darker skin are rarely told this before the tools are used on them, raising questions about i…
A February 2026 study by MIT's Center for Constructive Communication found that three leading AI chatbots—OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, and Meta's Llama 3—deliver significantly worse answ…
A 2026 Harvard Business Review study by organizational psychologists Constance Noonan Hadley of Boston University and Sarah L. Wright of the University of Canterbury found that knowledge workers incre…
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report logged more than 22,000 AI-enabled fraud complaints with adjusted losses exceeding $893 million, including $352 million from victims aged 60 and over, as AI voice …
A community benefits agreement for AI data centres in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was presented to residents only 48 hours before a city council vote, according to local organizing group Lancaster Stands…
A February 2026 study in Frontiers in Computer Science by Mokgata Alleen Matjie, Andani Nethavhani and Mary Matlakala found that AI tutoring tools widen the education gap between advantaged and disadv…
A Montreal woman died by suicide in July 2025 after disclosing suicidal thoughts to ChatGPT dozens of times without the chatbot escalating to crisis services, according to a lawsuit. OpenAI disclosed …
Researchers warn that AI tools used to predict climate migration and allocate humanitarian aid rely on datasets biased toward wealthier nations, systematically underrepresenting the Global South commu…
A study by MIT Media Lab researchers found that participants who used AI assistance to detect fake news became 21% more accurate while using the tool, but their unassisted accuracy declined by 15.3% a…