AI News

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Scott Olson / Getty Images Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has weighed in with a scorching proposal to confront one of the most existential employment issues of our time: AI automation. A long-time advocate for labor rights, Sanders recently released a report about the impact AI could have on jobs over the next decade. The worst-case scenario outlined by the paper is startling: that “AI and automation

TikTok / Futurism Just over a week ago, OpenAI launched its latest text-to-video generating app, a TikTok-like experience dubbed Sora 2 that lets users churn out a tidal wave of AI slop. It didn’t take long for users to use the app to generate videos of copyrighted and widely-known characters, from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman barbecuing a Pikachu and full episodes of “South Park” to SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up blue meth crystals in the style of AMC’s iconic

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images To the surprise of not a single soul, the backlash that Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann gleefully begged for on his million-dollar subway AI ad campaign has started to wear on him. In a stunning display of what happens when someone gets stupid prizes after playing stupid games, the 22-year-old Schiffmann lamented that he is “tired of talking to New Yorkers.” Yes, you read that correctly. The ma

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A man who has been arrested on suspicion of starting the deadly Palisades Fire that destroyed thousands of homes and killed a dozen people in Los Angeles last year allegedly used ChatGPT to generate images of burning forests and cities, according to law enforcement officials. The suspect in custody, 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, was arrested near his home in Florida on Tuesday for de

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for MTV When it comes to quality content that the whole family can enjoy, nobody is doing it like Jimmy “MrBeast“ Donaldson. As YouTube’s first billionaire, his thought provoking oeuvre spans classics like “I Helped 2,000 People Walk Again” and “Would You Risk Dying For $500,000?” Arguments over the merits of his content — which often turn financially desperate people into liv

TikTok It’s never easy to say goodbye to a friend. But what if that friend was an AI robot toy? That’s a question one little girl’s father is grappling with, after she damaged her AI learning companion. The video, which reportedly went viral on Chinese TikTok before being re-uploaded by China Daily, shows the girl sobbing after her father broke the bad news — the toy is broken, likely for good. “Dad said you won’t turn on again,” she tells the device, its

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images To many young souls, AI chatbots aren’t just tools or glorified search engines — they’re companions. A new survey found that nearly one in five high schoolers in the US — 19 percent — say that they or a friend have used AI to have a romantic relationship, an alarming figure that will surely raise new concerns over how the tech’s adoption among kids and teenagers may be impacting their men

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The tech billionaires are still doomsday prepping. And as the BBC reports, it seems that AI is making some of them more paranoid than ever that society as we know it might soon crumble. For years now, reports of the wealthiest bracing for the end of the world have dominated headlines. In 2023, Wired reported that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was breaking ground on a roughly 5,000 square foot

Getty Images / Viktoriya Skorikova College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system. That’s according to new reporting from Australia’s ABC News which illustrates the nightmarish impact that AI’s inroads has had in education as it irreversibly erodes the trust between professors and pupils. A student named Madeleine told the o

Sora 2 (Screenshots via Instagram) To take president Donald Trump’s word for it, America’s cities are in ruins, forcing him to deploy federal troops to Portland, Washington DC, and Memphis. There’s just one wrinkle — no one seems to be able to find any real evidence of the mass riots and anarchist violence that Trump and his supporters insist is destroying the nation. Luckily for them, that problem is easily solved with a little help from AI. The phenomeno

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A union between human and machine? Not on this Ohio Republican’s watch. A bill introduced last month by Buckeye state representative Thaddeus Claggett, from Licking County, would block AI systems from having legal personhood by declaring them to be “nonsentient entities,” NBC4 News reports. It would also mean that AIs wouldn’t be able to marry a human or another AI. “As the computer syste

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Rowan Cheung via YouTube (Screenshot) / Getty Images You know it’s going to be good when an AI executive goes off on a tangent about “hey, what’s a job anyway!” while addressing — or failing to address — the topic of how their tech just might wipe out entire categories of human professions. Today’s offending party, you’ll be shocked to hear, is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who talks about job destruction an

ChatGPT via YouTube OpenAI’s biggest advertising push yet depicts users leveraging ChatGPT in highly produced, intended-to-be-relatable everyday moments. The only problem? Consumer research shows the effort doesn’t correlate to impact at all. An ad titled “Dish” shows a young man attempting to impress his date with a home cooked meal by way of a cutesy prompt — “I need a recipe that says ‘I like you, but want to play it cool.'” Another, dubbed “Pull Up,” s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Scientists are a skeptical bunch — it’s in the job description. But when it comes to AI, researchers are growing increasingly mistrustful of the tech’s capabilities. In a preview of its 2025 report on the impact of the tech on research, the academic publisher Wiley released preliminary findings on attitudes toward AI. One startling takeaway: the report found that scientists expressed less

Getty / Futurism Look, it’s a hard job market out there. Not only has new job creation slowed to a drip, but the positions that do exist are increasingly hidden behind labyrinthian AI screening software and bizarre HR scams. Not to worry, because a new startup is rising to help job seekers brute force their way into one of the worst job markets, consequences be damned. Called “Sorce” — in keeping with the startup economy’s notoriously dismal naming convent

Getty Images You might’ve heard about human-AI relationships, but what would you do if AI was trying to sabotage your dating life with fellow humans? That’s a question more and more romantic hopefuls are grappling with thanks to the troubling rise of AI-powered wingmen. It’s a phenomenon tied to the prevalence of text-based apps in dating. Recent surveys show that one in five adults under 30 met their partner on a dating app like Tinder or Hinge, and more

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Last month, AI company Anthropic agreed to a blockbuster $1.5 billion settlement after being caught red-handed training its models on an enormous cache of pirated versions of copyrighted books and other material. Now, a similar lawsuit aimed at ChatGPT maker OpenAI has taken a dramatic turn, raising the possibility of yet another major legal escalation regarding AI-facilitated copyright infringement — and a potentially much big

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Christophe Gateau / picture alliance via Getty Images ; Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images; Kimberly White / Getty Images for TechCrunch Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Believe it or not, this is kind of good news. Since the public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve

Getty / Futurism Researchers with the UK AI Security Institute, the Alan Turing Institute, and Anthropic have found in a joint study that posting as few as 250 “poisoned” documents online can introduce “backdoor” vulnerabilities in an AI model. It’s a devious attack, because it means hackers can spread adversarial material to the open web, where it will be swept up by companies training new AI systems — resulting in AI systems that can be manipulated by a