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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jamie McCarthy / WireImage Feeling grateful for all the wonderful ways AI has changed your life yet? Jeff Bezos thinks you should be. On Wednesday, the Amazon founder brushed aside fears that AI would replace people’s jobs, arguing instead that it will instead be a magical tool that will supercharge productivity and make everyone’s work easier. The luddite masses just haven’t realized it yet. “If you’

Darren Cullen An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT’s close ties to a series of youth suicides. The artist Darren Cullen, a Banksy-like figure who has conducted many similar “subvertising” campaigns before, posted photos of the faux advertisements on X-formerly-Twitter. The fake ads reflect OpenAI’s minimal black-and-white style, and are affixed with OpenAI’s logo next to text reading “ChatGPT.”

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The long awaited Democratic Party “autopsy” of the 2024 election failure has finally been released, and it’s riddled with errors. Facing mounting pressure to release the report, Democratic National Convention chairman Ken Martin finally relented, sharing an “unfinished’ draft with CNN. Though Martin caveated to CNN that the report wasn’t ready for public consumption — despite having two y

Getty / Futurism It’s not looking good for finance bros as another major banker has sung the praises of AI automating their profession. On Monday, CEO of JPMorgan Jamie Dimon said that the multinational lender would likely hire less traditional bankers in the future, and instead favor bringing in more AI specialists. Out with the pencil pushers, and in with the prompters. “I think it will reduce our jobs down the road,” Dimon said in a Bloomberg Television

Higgsfield via YouTube This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story claiming that a fully AI-generated movie called “Hell Grind” was being screened at the iconic Cannes Film Festival, dropping a nuclear bomb in the middle of the already-heated debate on the tech’s intrusion into the art and business of cinema. “Four street thieves are on the road to hell, literally, in an action-adventure movie debuting at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday,”

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Craig T Fruchtman / WireImage via Getty Images There’s plenty of hype to go around about AI. It’s going to revolutionize this and automate that. But how, exactly? It’s a question that’s become increasingly pressing as governments and investors bet increasingly massive gobs of cash on its power to change the world. Unfortunately, even AI’s move devoted acolytes are struggling to articulate how AI is ac

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Hold onto your pumpkin spice lattes, because Starbucks is canning its AI tool after it turned out to be a total disaster, Reuters reports, less than year after it debuted. The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortag

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’ve been running headfirst into verification prompts seemingly everywhere you go online, you aren’t alone. Whether you’re jumping through hoops to satisfy a CAPTCHA or checking boxes to verify your identity, these brief interruptions are becoming hard to ignore. The reason behind it? Look no further than AI. As Swinburne University of Technology computer science professor Yang Xiang

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock 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 — but they face pressure to verify every claim, since AI has a baked-in risk of contaminating their work with hallucinations. A vocal minority of academics, however,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI is reportedly making inroads in a famously tech-cautious community: the Amish. According to a fascinating story by New York Magazine, the men of Holmes County, Ohio’s Amish community — the area with the largest concentration of Amish people in the country — have embraced generative AI as a new tool to do things like write emails, draft contracts, create spreadsheets, and otherwise mana

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Data shows that more and more people are self-filing lawsuits with the help of AI chatbots. Experts warn that the influx of sometimes-dubious cases could have real consequences on the court system. Back in March, a pair of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of South California published a study showing that according to millions of administrative r

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images The rise of AI is many things: technological, sociological, political, even teleological. But perhaps above all, it’s financial. When OpenAI released ChatGPT back in late 2022, it quick picked up enormous user traction — and moneymen across the tech industry immediately started scheming about how to cash in from the rush of interest. The model they coalesced around

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Catherine Robotis / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Barnes & Noble has been making a comeback over the past few years — which is impressive, since it once looked like the dominance of Amazon, the shift to digital books, and the decline of reading at large all pointed to the chain going the same way Borders did. Now it’s turning back into a popular spot to hang out in and even buy physica

Getty / Futurism Imagine this scenario: your algorithm has pulled up a background YouTube video, or maybe a podcast. Unbeknownst to you, hackers have embedded inaudible sounds in it, designed to hijack your smart speaker or phone’s AI assistant — meaning the cybercriminals can now access your private photos, bank accounts, or any other personal information you’ve hooked up to your AI system. It sounds like an also-ran episode of “Black Mirror,” but it’s ex

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images We all know that Google Search has been a dumpster fire ever since it got taken over by AI Overviews. But as the tech conglomerate prepares to transform its search engine with AI even further, it seems like its infrastructure is seriously crumbling. Starting this month, users began noticing that looking up certain words returned bizarre, AI-garbled answers instead of showing you the prope

Cultpix via X You’re playing with fire any time you combine AI and filmmaking. But a new collection of AI short films that premiered in Cannes this week — but crucially, not at the actual Cannes Film Festival — is really testing the public’s patience with the tech. Made by the Norwegian company Multiformat and distributed by the streamer Cultpix, the films were created by using generative AI to turn photos from a 1976 erotic magazine into moving images, co

Shutterstock / Futurism 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 conducted between February and March of this year, aimed at determining just how likely frontier AI models could go rogue. If you’re given to anxiety about the future of AI, the results are unlikely to make you feel

Dana Jacobs/Getty Images Steve Wozniak did what overpaid commencement speakers across the country have been failing to do: read the room. While giving a speech at Grand Valley State University’s graduation ceremony earlier this month, the beloved Apple cofounder offered some uplifting remarks to the youngsters entering the job market, amid heaps of anxiety over how AI will upend the economy. “We got AI today? You all have AI — actual intelligence,” Wozniak

Via Facebook An “independent label” in South Carolina is churning out mountains of AI slop featuring AI-generated “viking rappers” — alongside suave Christian rockers, for some reason — and blasting it across social media sites and music streamers, where it’s doing some serious numbers. We first came across the AI-generated vikings by way of short, 30-second clips posted to Facebook. The AI-generated videos feature a line-up of ripped, heavily-tattooed men

Getty / Futurism Typos used to be glaring eyesores. In the age of AI, they’ve become a sight for sore eyes. In fact, Michael Waters argues in The Atlantic that small, forgivable typos are now serving as signs that something was actually written by a human, and hence is worth reading. In a world where everyone expects a ChatGPT’d response, typos have mutated into a mark of authenticity. A misspelled word or two is indicative of the human element. “On a base