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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/Futurism Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn’t a pretty sight. New reporting by Fortune revealed the disastrous results of Shopify’s all-out scramble to embrace AI nearly a year ago. After telling workers that using AI tools is a “baseline expectation” in the workplace, Lütke is now changing his tune as workers spew out AI-generated emails, memos, and code without doubl

Louis-Philippe Breton via Facebook With anxiety over an AI doomsday reaching a fever pitch, some citizens of the world are no longer asking for regulations. Earlier this week, the offices of two Canadian AI labs were ransacked by what police officers describe as an organized group of vandals. According to the CBC, an office building belonging to Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute (MILA) in Montreal was defaced. Its windows were smashed out and its

PiersUncensored via X It won’t bag “her” any awards, but the AI “actor” Till Norwood just put in the performance of a lifetime. In an interview — also deserving of scare quotes, but we’re trying to show some restraint here — with British political commentator Piers Morgan, the smiling AI persona, with her uncanny gaze permanently fixed at some indeterminate point that’s somewhere not quite the center of the camera, appeared to severely glitch out before su

Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images Are unchecked AI companies destroying the news and the broader media ecosystem? We could harp on about why this is the case, but why not let the AI executives do the talking? As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, top Microsoft figures, including CEO Satya Nadella, admitted that their AI models are basically stealing content from media companies while providing virtually nothing in return, creating a “doom

Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images In a new survey of over 2,000 US adults conducted days ago, Politico found that the vast majority of respondents would pull the plug on the whole AI buildout if they could. The magazine presented participants with an intriguing hypothetical: if you were working on developing AI and started seeing signs that the tech could destroy humanity, would you keep going? The answers were telling: only 38 percent said they would con

Shutterstock / Futurism Smile, peruser of the internet! Your facial features are being codified by algorithms. Starting this week, Google has begun asking users to take a video selfie to sign into their accounts, Search Engine Watch found. The feature remains optional, but it represents an eerie step towards making facial recognition a standard way to navigate the web, which the search engine giant is now heavily promoting. Google first announced the featu

Shutterstock / Futurism Inexpenive AI models developed by Chinese companies are taking the United States by storm, as cost-conscious business leaders turn away from far more costly domestic AI. From a business perspective, the incentive to do is clear — it’s all about the bottom-line at the end of the day. China’s open source models are much cheaper to run compared to the ones being developed by frontier labs based in the US, so it follows that businesses

ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images Earlier this month, disillusioned Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon publicly announced he was quitting his job, accusing both his employer and OpenAI of acting irresponsibly. His departure and harrowing warning that there’s a more than ten percent chance of AI “killing all humans” was met with breathless media coverage. While he’s far from the first AI insider to warn that humanity is in grave danger, the timing was particularl

Shutterstock / Futurism While the majority of AI leaders seem to agree that we need to take the foot off the AI development pedal or else risk disaster, Wall Street isn’t exactly enthralled by the idea. For years now, analysts have warned that the United States economy is massively overindexed on AI and resting on a staggering amount of debt, with enormous data center projects and eye-bulging capital expenditures fueling fears over a growing bubble. And no

Shutterstock / Futurism As backlash against its surveillance network refuses to die down, Flock Safety is kicking off an employee buyout program that’ll let workers leave the company with a “generous” severance package, Wired reports. It’s seemingly an admission that the company is in turmoil. Protestors have targeted Flock’s AI-powered license plate scanning cameras so fiercely that many cities and police departments are cancelling or declining to extend

IRGC via Getty Images Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has been instrumental to the American campaign. On the home front, AI and its infrastructure is quietly shaping the ideological battlefield: President Donald Trump is spewing out wartime propaganda slopped together by generative AI, as US-owned data centers and tech company offices become widely accepted as military targets. AI is also pro

Futurism For years, human rights monitors have been outraged at the selective policing of content on Meta’s social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The company’s latest enforcement action is hardly shocking at this point, but it provides a crystal clear example of the kinds of things Meta will — and won’t — allow on its apps. In a bizarre case of digital censorship, Meta’s content moderation system stepped in to stop a local theatre in Barcelon

Shov I’ve never shot a gun before — and it’s not an activity I’d actively seek out, given the grim implications of trivializing an act of violence by transforming it into recreation. Yet it’s never been easier to fire a weapon. Now, in fact, it doesn’t even require you to get off your couch. A just-launched website called Shov allows users to “shoot guns on the internet” by remotely-controlling a weapon right inside their web browser. The pneumatic weapons

Meta / Futurism Must an AI be useful? Isn’t being creepy sufficient testament to its utility? “Creepy” is the word being used to describe Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse. Chances are you’ve seen it pop up on Instagram or Facebook, where Meta is heavily promoting its tool as an AI agent for casual users who are blissfully unaware of what an “OpenClaw” or “Instinct” is. To use it, you install it on your device and link it to stuff like your email and bank acco

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Futurism Plenty of eyebrows went up this summer when one by one, the leaders of frontier AI labs announced that they were each calling for a slowdown in AI development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Grok creator Elon Musk were among those arguing that the tech was simply moving too fast to ensure it doesn’t fly off the rails. Several autonomous hacking sprees had already raised hackles earlier this year,

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump has waded into the AI debate with a lexical proclamation: AI shouldn’t be called AI. “Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence,” he began in a post on his social media site Truth Social on Saturday, seemingly apropos of nothing. “A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Supe

Shutterstock / Futurism The gambling hub DraftKings could be using the mountains of user data it collects, and the analyst expertise it boasts, to stop problem gamblers from ruining their lives. Instead, it’s using this power to do the opposite, according to the New York Times: scout for potential addicts and keep them hooked. To do that, DraftKings, which is best known for its sports betting app, built an AI model to determine which customers were likely

Jason Kempin/FilmMagic Almost a decade after his tragic passing, iconic comedian Robin Williams is being remembered in the worst way possible: by mind-numbing AI slop video tributes that gullible netizens are sharing with abandon on social media. His surviving daughter and film director Zelda Williams has been watching with dismay. “That supposedly ‘private video’ of dad that I’ve been shown talking about conspiracies is clearly AI, and not even particular

Shutterstock / Futurism The advent of powerful AI coding tools has quickly made programmers heavily reliant on the tech, with experts warning that they’re slowly but surely losing the ability to write code by hand. It’s a growing existential crisis that’s significantly raising the chance of errors or security issues in AI code that hasn’t been properly vetted. Experts are warning of a “class divide” between those, who are over relying on AI tools and more

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for one of the biggest unsolved problems in math, the Navier-Stokes equations, by directing 10,000 of its powerful AI agents to work on the enigma for 88 hours straight. It was an occasion fraught with controversy, however, as mathematicians accused the company of essentially stealing their work. That controversy is still rippling through the math world. But what has