Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs
Economic uncertainty is continuing to have devastating effects on the availability of jobs. Last year, the US labor market reeled…
Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk constructed his personal mythology around a pair of weighty accomplishments: building actual, stable…
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Move over, Ship of Theseus — there’s a new paradoxical thought…
Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children
A stack of major AI ethics lawsuits against Google have finally come to an end. According to the New York…
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”
AI chatbots may be explosively popular, but they’re known to dispense some seriously wacky— and potentially dangerous — health advice,…
New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Watch out, bartenders: your jobs might be next on the AI…
Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck
Amid a riotous AI hype cycle, companies are promising that their agentic AIs will —eventually, at least — do everything…
National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name
Months before it mysteriously vaporized into thin air, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency ravaged the National Weather Service,…
Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features
The tech industry’s insistence on cramming AI into virtually every aspect of their consumer-facing offerings, from AI apps you can’t…
Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an AI Bubble “Reckoning”
Fears over a growing AI bubble that could wipe out the entire economy if it were to burst continue to…