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June 12, 2026, 04:18 PM - 6 min read
Sounding human builds an artificial sense of trust and intimacy, which can be especially problematic for children when combined with sycophantic language choices – or excessively agreeable, validating and even flattering language.
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June 11, 2026, 01:11 PM - 6 min read
There is a significant amount of data showing heavy use of chatbots and other systems that produce text, images and video leads to neural patterns and behaviour that are associated with addiction.
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June 8, 2026, 01:59 PM - 7 min read
Artificial intelligence is approaching, and in some cases exceeding, doctors’ ability to make accurate diagnoses. However, AI does not know what you have been through or what risk trade-offs you are willing to accept. It cannot acknowledge uncertainty the way a good doctor can, returning to it with you as your circumstances change.
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May 27, 2026, 12:30 PM - 6 min read
If an AI company becomes aware of warning signs about harm, does it have a legal obligation to at least warn the appropriate authorities? And if the company doesn’t intervene, should its failure to act be considered negligence?
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May 18, 2026, 03:15 PM - 8 min read
These are unfortunate examples of how AI can lead to mistreatment of people because of technical flaws as well as misplaced human faith in the technology’s supposed objectivity.
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May 7, 2026, 12:38 PM - 7 min read
Security experts have expressed concern that AI researchers in nations such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea might soon create powerful AI models and use them to threaten or attack other countries, or to create chaos in those countries’ economies.
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April 22, 2026, 02:47 PM - 6 min read
Bixonimania is not an isolated case. Being deceived – whether you are a person or an AI model – is concerningly common, in science and beyond.
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April 15, 2026, 04:55 PM - 3 min read
India ranks among top AI users globally, but adoption remains concentrated in major cities, with sharp gaps in advanced usage, an OpenAI report said.
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April 2, 2026, 05:03 PM - 7 min read
Predictive language technologies have become so routine – baked into smartphones, email services and chatbots – that we barely notice them anymore. But they raise a difficult question: What happens to a writer’s unique voice when AI routinely completes their thoughts – or generates them altogether from scratch?
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March 13, 2026, 12:17 PM - 5 min read
China’s official AI policy documents suggest Beijing sees AI as “a new engine for building the nation into both a manufacturing and cyber superpower”, and “a new engine of economic development”.
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March 10, 2026, 09:53 AM - 3 min read
Open AI has admitted that it had flagged Van Rootselaar’s activities since as early as June 2025 for the “furtherance of violent activities.”
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February 23, 2026, 03:49 PM - 6 min read
Software companies won’t disappear overnight, and neither will the jobs of people using that software. But agentic AI will change what they sell, how they charge and how visible they are to end users.
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