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Shutterstock / Futurism AI data center projects have become astonishingly unpopular. Their opposition has garnered strong bipartisan support, quickly turning the facilities into a hot button political issue for the upcoming midterm elections in the US. And it’s not just residents in rural America trying to keep out facilities, which have been linked to rising electricity prices, water issues , and copious amounts of noise. The Nashville Zoo in Tennessee ha

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock In a strongly-worded rebuke last month, Pope Leo called for AI to be “disarmed.” The criticism comes amid rapidly growing backlash to the tech, with countless workers becoming frustrated after being forced to use AI, even when the productivity benefits it offers are questionable. Now, a 34-year-old software engineer named Erin Maus, who works for a tech entertainment company in North Caro

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Futurism In November 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was unceremoniously forced out of the company following a dramatic power struggle. Since Altman’s ousting — and eventual rehiring — the conversation surrounding the ethics of the AI industry has only become more polarizing. OpenAI, once a research lab “free from financial obligations” and purportedly dedicated to the betterment of humankind through AI, transformed itself into

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images You could already make the case that corporations are faceless monoliths geared purely towards maximizing profits with only a peripheral consideration of human wellbeing. So when Argentina’s scandal–laden president Javier Milei called for the creation of “non-human corporations” run by AI in a new opinion piece for the Financial Times, you kind of have to applau

Photo illustration featuring a McDonald's restaurant sign. Coming (back) to a McDonald’s near you: AI-powered drive-thru lanes. That’s right. Those feeling déjà vu aren’t mistaken: this is McDonald’s second foray into using AI at its burger delivery pit stops, after the first attempt — a collaboration with IBM — fell apart like a soggy Big Mac. What, if anything, is different from the last rollout? The fast food chain is touting a new AI system called Arch

Chookie In late 2024, the Coca-Cola Company released an unsettling, AI-generated remake of its beloved 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” ad, triggering a major outcry. A followup AI ad in November 2025 didn’t fare much better. Coke vowed that it took an army of “AI specialists” a month to make, but netizens were left appalled, accusing the company of relying on cheap “AI slop.” The widespread distaste for AI has only grown since then, but some companies finally a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock ChatGPT is getting duped by fraudulent storefronts run by scammers — which means you might be getting duped, too. According to the scam-checking service Ask Silver, the OpenAI chatbot is recommending cloned versions of defunct websites that capitalize on familiar brands to steal your money and bank details, The Guardian reports. A perfect illustration of the type of scam website that Chat

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Department of Injustice Jalil Richardson of North Carolina is free after spending over 50 days in jail after being wrongfully arrested for a crime he did not commit. According to Action News Jax, Richardson was initially accused of stealing a vehicle in Jacksonville, Florida, after police fed surveillance video from a private business into their AI-integrated facial recognition system. Th

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The inside of a facility where AI chips are made is extraordinarily sensitive. Fabrication plants are filled with equipment so exquisitely delicate that even the tiniest contaminants can result in precious chips being ruined. As Business Insider’s Olivia Nemec found out firsthand, the list of things she wasn’t able to wear or use ahead of taking a peek inside Intel’s chip factory in Orego

In a paper published Tuesday, six major global banks, including Bank of America and Capital One, warned that agentic shopping has “risks spanning transparency, safety, privacy & data, choice, and interoperability” that increase “as greater autonomy is given to AI agents.” AI developers, as well as various retailers and major payment processors, have been working to unveil agentic commerce chatbots, aka AI agents that promise to completely automate the proc

Meta’s Muse agentic platform launched on September 8, and has earned enough buzz to top the iOS download chart in the U.S. That’s an indicator of significant curiosity if nothing else—perhaps helped along by the announcement last week that a Muse beta feature can make phone calls on behalf of users. we're expanding our ☎️ 📞 beta for muse! https://t.co/ZJnXM2vb4U — Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) September 16, 2026 A Reuters report seems to confirm that thes

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang does not believe that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, no matter how many former AI lab employees sound the alarm. But, if the people working behind closed doors at places like Anthropic or OpenAI really are on the verge of destroying the world, Huang has an idea: shut them down. In an interview on the Ezra Klein Show, Huang continued to pour cold water on the most doomer-pilled parts of the AI space

Welp, one of those OpenAI agents has now hacked Australia. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, an OpenAI agent breached the Australian government’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service site back in June and accessed information not intended for public consumption. OpenAI acknowledged Wednesday in a statement, per Reuters, that it had “identified ​activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up

As we all know by now, if you stick microphones into the faces of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, they will say something to the effect of I am trying to build technology that threatens the world and I need you to create policies aimed at stopping me. The UN signed up for a performance of this AI spooky story show, and duly received one on Wednesday. “We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the UN Security Council duri

We all lie to ourselves to be happy. But we are dangerously at risk of allowing Meta to chibi-wash its image. Meta—you know Meta, the company that is perhaps the most famous and aggressive offender when it comes to extracting and exploiting personal data from people—is in the middle of a little reputational renaissance driven by its AI suddenly not totally sucking. Muse, the company’s flagship AI app, has been hanging around the top of the App Store for we