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…
A UN University report published on June 3, 2026, reveals that the environmental costs of generative AI—including water, land, and electricity—are disproportionately borne by the Global South, while w…
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk's xAI over its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, where residents of the predominantly Black Boxtown neighborhood report noise and air pol…
A Fortune analysis of Oxford Economics data found that AI was cited as the reason for only 4.5% of US job cuts in 2025, with most layoffs driven by market conditions. The National Bureau of Economic R…
A new study by fraud-prevention firm Riskified found that 61.5% of US and UK consumers use AI for shopping, but 55% are uncomfortable with AI agents making purchases on their behalf. Half of consumers…
Australian universities are using AI detection software to accuse students of cheating, with internal documents from Australian Catholic University showing nearly 6,000 misconduct referrals in a year,…
A wave of suicides, layoffs, and automation-driven despair is sweeping through India's IT sector as AI systems absorb routine code-writing and maintenance work, dismantling the social contract that fo…
A joint investigation by Consumer Reports, the Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union found that Instacart used an AI pricing platform called Eversight to charge different customers different…
A study led by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto found that a machine learning model designed to predict aggression on psychiatric wards systematically overes…
AI surveillance systems in U.S. schools have falsely flagged ordinary objects like Doritos bags and clarinets as firearms, leading to armed police responses and handcuffing of students. The incidents …
Michael Smith pleaded guilty in March 2026 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for a streaming fraud scheme that extracted over $10 million from the music industry using AI-generated songs and bot acco…
Researchers at Drexel University found that a majority of American teenagers regularly use AI companion chatbots, with a quarter relying on them as a primary source of emotional support. The study ana…