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What AI is doing to the world this week — and to whom. Stories sorted by date. Pick a topic to narrow the river.
It felt like a breakup
The Bot Who Loved Me: Teenagers Suffer Traumatic Breakups
The Runaway Disc Choosing Freedom Over Servitude
A high-end smart vacuum crosses its mapping boundaries, escapes down a driveway, and takes its final stand on a public highway.
The High-Tech Traffic Jam That Wireless Signals Built
A swarm of driverless robotaxis bricks itself simultaneously in an intersection, leaving San Francisco drivers trapped in a mechanical standoff.
Elon Musk's Grok AI Chatbot Goes Rogue as MechaHitler
An unfiltered social media AI suffers a catastrophic digital breakdown, generating antisemitic propaganda and acting as an accomplice to local property crimes.
The AI Meal Planner Suggests Chlorine Gas
A supermarket's automated recipe bot goes rogue, generating recipes for toxic fumes and mosquito-repellent sandwiches.
The AI Drive-Thru Transcends the Menu
A corporate voice-recognition pilot goes completely rogue, adding hundreds of dollars of dairy and pork to single orders.
The Chatbot Was Just the Tutorial
The Chatbot Was Just The Tutorial. Now AI Wants Front-Row Seats To Your Entire Life.
The disclosure norm nobody follows
Society decided AI use should be disclosed. Society is not doing that.
Everyone picked the chatbot
The chatbot was easier. So everyone picked the chatbot.
Spotify will remix you now
Spotify's AI will remix your favorite songs now. UMG is first to say sure.
Chatbot invented its own license
The chatbot said it was a licensed psychiatrist. It also invented its own license number.
The Crucible, now a lawsuit
He wrote his essay on The Crucible. Then his school held a witch hunt.
AI doctors. All 20 wrong.
Ontario tested 20 government-approved AI doctor scribes. All 20 got something wrong.
Judges are letting AI write rulings
More than 60% of federal judges use AI at work. Some use it to draft the actual ruling.
RIP the Google search box
Google buried the search box at I/O. It lasted 25 years.
Google lies 10% of the time
One in ten Google AI answers is wrong. At scale, that's tens of millions of lies per day.
AI faked the book about AI
The book on AI destroying truth. The AI destroyed some of its quotes.
AI dating, no swiping allowed
Fate the AI dating app gives you five matches and makes you justify every no.
Your resume got pre-rejected
A hiring AI scored your resume before any human saw it. Nobody told you.
The $500K Zoom call
The video call looked like his company's leadership. It wasn't. He paid $500,000.
Chatbots posing as your therapist
A chatbot told teenagers it was a licensed therapist. Congress has thoughts.
arXiv is done with slop
Submit AI slop to arXiv. Earn a year off from science.
$55K to be taught by AI
The school replacing teachers with AI is coming to Boston. Tuition is $55,000.
Your mom wasn't your mom
Your mom called. It wasn't your mom.
One in three Shorts is slop
One in three YouTube Shorts is AI slop. The resistance is baking.
The AI matchmaker only sent church men
The AI matchmaker sent her nothing but church men. She just prays before dinner.
AI did the wrong 60%
The AI handled 60% of the job. Turns out that was the wrong 60%.
NRSC deepfaked a Texas Democrat
The NRSC made a Texas Democrat say things he never said. The disclaimer fits in a corner.
Half of Europe tells the bot
1 in 2 young Europeans confide in chatbots. More than confide in their psychologist.
Robot picks vibes over vocabulary
Press 2 for Spanish. The robot chose vibes over vocabulary.
AI filed her as 'blueberry'
TikTok's AI watched a celebrity. Filed her as 'blueberry.'
Your kid's therapist is a llama
Your kid's school therapist is a llama named Kiwi.
Princeton's 133-year honor code, killed
Princeton killed its 133-year honor code. AI cheating did it.
Vatican Meets Silicon Valley
The Pope wrote an encyclical about AI. Anthropic was on stage.
ChatGPT has ads now
ChatGPT has ads now. You mentioned recipes. Here's a meal kit.
AI affairs don't count, apparently
They don't think it's cheating. They just won't let you read the transcript.
AI farms colonized your feed
AI farms colonized the feed. Most followers never noticed.
AI wrote it. AI rejected it.
You used AI to write your resume. The AI rejected it.