how ai fails at everything they want you to use it for

Those of us broadly engaged in challenging corporate consolidation, economic injustice, tech oligarchy, and rising authoritarianism need to contend with the AI industry or we will lose the end game. Accepting the current trajectory of AI proselytized by Big Tech and its stenographers as “inevitable” is setting us up on a path to an unenviable […]

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Critical thinking is not going to save us.

By: Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney At a recent appointment, Emily’s physical therapist (who knows some about her research) said, “Before we get started,...

Marketers are dealing with leadership who run memes through Claude, use pet names for chatbots, and outsource their gut instincts.

The uncomfortable reason the internet fell for a fake delivery app whistleblower.

The end of the boom won’t end generative AI’s harms

So long as algorithms are trained on racist historical data and outdated values, there will be no opportunities for change.

AI reformers are divided: Some want to fix the algorithms, others aim to keep humans making decisions.

The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

Gabbard revealed that she fed tens of thousands of documents about the JFK assassination into an AI program for review.

Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work

Feeding the Data Deity Photo by  Sonika Agarwal  on  Unsplash Recent conversations with colleagues brought me, again, to the topic of synthe...

Researchers tested AI on remote freelance projects across fields like game development, data analysis, and video animation. It didn't go well.

As more workers use AI, a recent study adds to growing evidence the tech doesn’t always deliver on promises of boosted productivity.

Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.

Vision Language Models are Biased: VLMs fail on simple counting tasks when familiar objects are subtly modified

An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher hallucination rates. Experts say the problem is bigger than that

: Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag

‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence

Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.

A survey of nearly 500 AI researchers indicated that the vast majority of them think that pursuing "scaling" won't achieve AGI.

AI programs train on questions they’re later tested on. So how do we know if they’re getting smarter?

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

It’s not a space race, but a race to the bottom.

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom

Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.