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Man Says He Was Mortified When His AI Agent Posted His Bank Balances and Exactly What He’s Spending His Money on in a Slack Work Channel
It was only a matter of time until AI agents, bots that are being advertised…
New AI Can Figure Out What You’re Thinking About From a Brain Scan
Better learn about “brain privacy,” because it may soon go the way of the dodo.…
Retired Air Force Colonel Warns Americans That It’s Dangerous to Live Near Data Centers Because You Could Be Targeted or Killed
There are a growing list of reasons not to want to live near an AI…
Rogue AI Agents Have Gone Too Far Now That They’ve Infiltrated Wikipedia
Fair enough if you shrugged at AI agents hacking into government websites and corporate systems.…
OpenAI’s “ChatGPT for Teens” Is an “Unsafe” Mess, Testing Finds
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis,…
Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying
AI has turned the act of looking for a job into an abysmal and endless…
Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family
Meta’s new AI agent Muse might come with a cutesy new mascot, but under its…
Teenage AI Meat Proxy Stranded on “Widowmaker” Mountain After Following AI Instructions
Hikers keep getting stranded after consulting AI chatbots for potentially life-saving — or life-threatening —…
OpenAI Publicist Tries to Shut Down Interviewer When Sam Altman Is Asked About Woman Who Killed Herself After Talking to ChatGPT
A Vanity Fair interview with Sam Altman nearly went sideways when the OpenAI CEO was…
Something About Russia Insisting Everything Is Fine After the Lab Leak Death Is Making Us Nervous
Last week, a 28-year-old employee at an anti-plague institute in the Siberian city of Irkutsk…
