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Alarming Study Suggests That Using AI Is Turning Humans More Robotic
1+ week, 5+ day ago (368+ words) Published Aug 31, 2026 10:40 AM EDT But the more we use AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, those tables are starting to turn: chatbots appear to be influencing human behavior making us behave more like them — a terrifying thought as…...
Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist "Advice" About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People
3+ week, 2+ day ago (621+ words) By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian Published Aug 20, 2026 5:06 PM EDT There are a litany of reasons to distrust Google’s AI Overviews, which now appear at the top of its search results above links to actual websites. The algorithmically generated answers, which…...
College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (305+ words) Published Jun 3, 2026 3:01 PM EDT As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to reinstate college-entrance exams, The Wall Street Journal reports, claiming that incoming students barely have a middle-school level understanding…...
Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI Hallucinations in Their Research Papers
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (228+ words) Published May 23, 2026 6:45 AM EDT Even in 2026, there are still plenty of researchers who refuse to use AI to publish their research papers. Others do use the tech for tasks like sourcing journal articles for references, editing copy, or formatting citations…...
Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (335+ words) Published May 6, 2026 1:55 PM EDT On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and the fifth month of the year, you see.) If celebrating with a bunch of tech bros sounds like…...
Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (425+ words) Published May 5, 2026 9:00 AM EDT The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s becoming one. In a new essay for UnHerd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic’s Claude — or “Claudia,…...
Mathematicians Claim Significant Discovery Using ChatGPT
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (347+ words) Published May 2, 2026 7:30 AM EDT Did ChatGPT just solve an arcane math problem that’s foiled mathematicians for over sixty years? Some leading experts say yes, Scientific American reports. While many AI-generated Erdős solutions have turned out to be a bust, experts…...
Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users' Cognitive Abilities
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (322+ words) Published Apr 21, 2026 1:02 PM EDT Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the brains of students while they were writing short, deliberately open-ended essays. The researchers’ EEG findings were ominous: the…...
Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (286+ words) Published Apr 22, 2026 1:03 PM EDT A year ago today, AI giant Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer, Jason Clinton, made a bold pronouncement: within the next year, AI-powered employees will begin traipsing around the virtual innards of big companies around the world....
Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (871+ words) Published Apr 7, 2026 9:06 AM EDT Hallucinations have plagued OpenAI ever since it launched its blockbuster ChatGPT chatbot back in 2022. The propensity of large language models to sound both plausible and confident about outputs that are totally wrong continues to represent a…...