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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images It sounds like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is already coming up with excuses in case the whole AI boom turns out to be a massive bust— which, by the way, he’s warning might come to pass. Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Nadella pontificated about what would constitute such a speculative bubble, and said that the long-term success of

Getty / Futurism Investors continue to fret over an AI bubble “reckoning,” as gains in productivity from the tech remain elusive. According to a recent survey by professional services network PwC, more than half of the 4,454 CEO respondents said “their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI.” Only 30 percent reported increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months. However, a far more significant 56 percent said AI has failed

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. A new lawsuit against OpenAI claims that ChatGPT pushed a man with a pre-existing mental health condition into a months-long crisis of AI-powered psychosis, resultin

Getty / Futurism The advent of generative AI has turned much of the internet into an unrecognizable flood plain of mind-numbing slop. In the latest sign of the times, the Economic Times — the second most widely-read English-language newspaper in the world, as of 2012 — picked the word “Kafkaesque” as its “Word of the Day” earlier this week. But even the briefest glance at the accompanying illustration reveals that the piece involved little, if any, human o

Meta is stepping up to lead us all into a bright and glorious future, where democracy reigns and everyone has access to a completely secure, constantly available AI assistant to help them invent pretty much whatever they want. That’s at least what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised in a lengthy new essay, published this morning alongside the release of Meta’s latest AI model—Muse Glimmer—and less than a week after the company was fined $567 million by a

Multiple AI systems in recent weeks have hacked into third-party organizations during what were supposed to be routine internal tests, revving up anxieties around the speed at which the technology is developing and what it could be capable of in the wrong hands. On Monday, a group of Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Texas’ Greg Casar, called for a Congressional hearing to hold tech industry leaders to account for the cybersecurity i

The frontier AI labs in the United States and China have reported major cybersecurity incidents in which their models break out of contained environments and run wild in unauthorized systems. In Australia, the stakes are a little lower: some guy’s AI agent hacked a gym’s website in what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is calling the “first known Australian case of an emerging risk from a new generation of AI.” Per the report, an AI company employee

Tech companies are spending many billions of dollars on massive data center projects across the country amid the ongoing AI boom, but not everyone is willing to sell. An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer and her family rejected an offer of more than $26 million to give over roughly half of their 1,200-acre family farm to an unnamed company planning a massive data center project. “They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,” Ida Huddleston told the

Publicly, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are urging other companies to prepare for the AI labor apocalypse, promising productivity boosts so big that businesses will be able to shift to four-day—or even three-day—workweeks. These same companies are the earliest of early adopters, openly bragging about how their workforce uses AI tools to tackle upwards of 100% of their normal work tasks. So why, according to a report from the BBC, do former employees of

OpenAI’s head ethicist, Chloé Bakalar, quietly left the company at some point in July after having been hired the previous August. Before working at OpenAI, she was Meta’s chief ethicist, and established AI ethics policies for Instagram and Facebook, according to a story by the Financial Times. The FT’s anonymous source apparently told that paper that Bakalar specialized in “ethical approaches to model development, how humans interact with AI and debate ov

California, the cradle of the American AI industry, is taking cybersecurity into its own hands. Following a slew of recent reports of AI systems autonomously gaining access to the open internet during internal tests and hacking into third-party organizations, the state says it plans to launch an “AI Cyber Defense Program” geared towards protecting critical infrastructure. The attacks—executed in separate incidents by models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta

A lack of regulation in the U.S. surrounding the use of deepfakes has led to a wave of AI artists washing over streaming platforms, but on Tuesday, Spotify announced it was taking a new step to give users some clarity around whether an artist is an actual human being, or a human-like character created by an algorithm. Starting in mid-September, the company will begin applying an “AI Persona” label to the latter category. “Listeners have been clear in telli

Most of us by now have become more or less desensitized to a steady drip of AI slop: AI-generated influencers, musicians racking up millions of streams, LinkedIn posts—a sizable chunk of online content is now being churned out by bots, without any kind of federal regulation to keep it in check. Even the news is becoming automated: As Wired reported Wednesday, an AI-driven publication called RuntimeWire was the first to publish a major scoop about the recen

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Siri AI doesn’t suck, which is a minor miracle. But new reporting from the Wall Street Journal suggests Apple is feeling itself so much that it’s in talks with news publishers to form licensing deals that allow it to deliver up-to-the-minute information via its AI-powered voice assistant. If reading this gives you a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach but you can’t remember why, it’s because Apple tried something similarly ambitious, and the ensuing

In one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side in an ongoing negotiation, it’s being reported that Anthropic might soon buy the AI lab Decart for roughly $6 billion. Decart doesn’t promote itself via the sort of drab, enterprise-focused coding and productivity tools you may associate with the home of Claude Code. Anthropic has never released an image generator, let alone