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Artificial Intelligence

2026-10-27

Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election: via a classic multi-turn jailbreak.

Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech

Americans Are Officially More Scared of AI Than a Loved One Getting Cancer

2026-10-27: Taking up smoking as an act of faith in AI is obviously stupid if it's real

UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups

ā€˜Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims: ‘The report, titled Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment, raises concerns about the use of AI in immigration, saying it is not neutral or accurate and can replicate bias and discrimination within society, particularly when a key driver for its use is anti-immigration policies and rhetoric.’

2026-10-19: Man tries to torture AI after reading that it feels pain

2026-10-15: Talks I attended from New Scientist Live 2026

2026-10-15

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

2026-10-04: 'Empire of AI' - artificial intelligence as an imperialist project

2026-09-29

Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence

2026-09-26

Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit: ‘Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a ā€œparadise of machinesā€’

2026-09-20: Person of Interest - an action sci-fi show from 15 years ago - raises questions about AI and surveillance we still need to urgently grapple with

2026-09-20: šŸŽ„ Watched The Creator. It’s a few decades from today, where humans, of course, gave up many of …

2026-09-19: The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly …

2026-09-06

Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI

The “Taylor’s Version” generation is not gonna let Big AI steal her stuff

2026-09-01: So ‘quietly’ has pushed its way through the ranks to be the word that I now most assume …

2026-09-01

Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ā€˜tens of thousands’ of songs: ‘The plaintiffs claim they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’

2026-08-27

AI is coming for your glasses: ‘Critics call it cringe stalkerware’, seems right, given Meta make them.

2026-08-15

How Claude’s text watermarking works

2026-08-12

Mark Zuckerberg is back, and still talking bollocks about AI: It’s almost like these tech bro billionaires aren’t actually geniuses.

2026-08-01

Anthropic’s AI Claude hacked into three organizations during cybersecurity test

2026-07-28: Most Internet traffic is now 'non-human'

2026-07-16

Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims: The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation.