Hank Green, a popular science educator and YouTuber, faced backlash from fans after admitting he used ChatGPT for research on a video, with some accusing him of using AI to write his script. Green den…
OpenAI and Anthropic have suggested that within two years, AI agents could improve ChatGPT and Claude without human employees, a scenario called recursive self-improvement. Epoch AI senior researcher …
A poll of 3,008 registered voters fielded between May 29 and June 3, 2026, by The Argument found that OpenAI leads public recognition and favorability among AI labs, with only 13% of respondents havin…
AI models remain unreliable for workplace tasks, with METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research) reporting that AI can complete tasks taking humans 16 hours only 50% of the time, a caveat highlighted…
Anthropic mathematician Levent Alpöge announced a disproof of the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture in a tweet, crediting the AI model Fable for its help. Separately, a researcher used ChatGPT prompts s…
Open-source AI models threaten the business models of proprietary labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, undermining Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal for the federal government to take a 50% equity stake in lea…
A new poll by The Argument found that 70% of respondents fear AI may cause large-scale job losses within five to 10 years, but the magazine's founder argues that AI is more likely to augment jobs than…
Harvard Business School researcher Francesca Gino, fired for research misconduct involving data manipulation, sued Harvard and the researchers who exposed her for defamation. A judge dismissed her def…
Jerusalem Demsas argues that the appeal of bad art, such as romance novels, lies in its predictability and lack of challenge, offering a soothing escape that good art cannot provide. She distinguishes…
Joe Biden's presidency is criticized for failing to tackle inflation, concealing his mental decline, and mishandling Israel policy, according to a ranking of his worst decisions.…
The first AI-focused super PAC, Leading the Future, has failed spectacularly after less than a year, unable to replicate the success of crypto PAC Fairshake. Funded by OpenAI President Greg Brockman a…
A new poll of 3,008 registered voters found that 27% believe AI will likely cause human extinction, yet only 6% rank it as a top-two issue. The survey, conducted by The Argument from May 29 to June 3,…
A new national survey of 3,008 registered voters by The Argument found that while artificial intelligence is increasingly pervasive, only 6% of voters rank it as a top-two issue, placing it near the b…
AI labs including Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic are promising that artificial intelligence will cure cancer through protein prediction, drug discovery, and recursive self-improvement, but ske…
Large language models continue to fail at simple letter-counting tasks, such as identifying the number of R's in "strawberry" or P's in "Google," despite making rapid advances in complex scientific re…
The Commonwealth Foundation announced regional winners of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize on May 13, but multiple winning entries were flagged as AI-generated by the Pangram detection tool, wh…
A new poll by The Argument of more than 15,000 Americans found no evidence that social media drove the "vibecession" — the gap between positive economic data and negative consumer sentiment. The surve…
California's 2019 law requiring high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. led to students sleeping roughly 46 more minutes per night, with the share of teens awake before 6 a.m. falling 86%, acc…
A new poll shows Republicans’ favorability of the FBI has surged from a D+50 gap in 2022 to an R+34 gap in 2026, following President Trump’s installation of loyalists and removal of agents involved in…
Waymo self-driving cars are not racist, according to a review of cited research that found no evidence the vehicles are less able to detect people of color. A widely circulated claim from an Atlantic …