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Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced
3+ hour, 49+ min ago (360+ words) Published May 24, 2026 12: 00 PM EDT We've already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this to become the norm. The AI research nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) recently released a study…...
Academics in Meltdown Now That They're Responsible for AI Hallucinations in Their Research Papers
1+ day, 4+ hour 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
2+ week, 4+ day ago (335+ words) Published May 6, 2026 1: 55 PM EDT On Tuesday, Open AI 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…...
Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
2+ week, 5+ day 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 Un Herd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic's Claude " or…...
Mathematicians Claim Significant Discovery Using Chat GPT
3+ week, 1+ day ago (347+ words) Published May 2, 2026 7: 30 AM EDT Did Chat GPT 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 Erd's solutions have turned out to be a bust,…...
Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users' Cognitive Abilities
1+ mon, 2+ day 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…...
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4+ week, 1+ day ago (486+ words) Scientists Say They've Tested a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years'Futurism The nearest star system to our own, Alpha Centauri, is well over four light-years away " tens of trillions of lonely miles that could take hundreds, if…...
Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World
1+ mon, 2+ day 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....
There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (388+ words) Published Apr 14, 2026 2: 33 PM EDT Once you familiarize yourself with the characteristics of Chat GPT's writing, it becomes impossible to miss. The internet has been flooded with AI-generated text that often features distinctive language patterns, from liberal use of em dashes…...
Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (871+ words) Published Apr 7, 2026 9: 06 AM EDT Hallucinations have plagued Open AI ever since it launched its blockbuster Chat GPT chatbot back in 2022. The propensity of large language models to sound both plausible and confident about outputs that are totally wrong continues to…...