The next ‘AI winter’ is coming

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/next-ai-winter-coming-093009617.html?guccounter=1

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/humans-hired-to-fix-ai-slop-rcna225969

Tired of AI? You Don't Have to Use It

https://www.howtogeek.com/everyone-expects-me-to-use-ai-heres-why-i-dont/

AI sycophancy isn't just a quirk, experts consider it a 'dark pattern' to turn users into profit

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/ai-sycophancy-isnt-just-a-quirk-experts-consider-it-a-dark-pattern-to-turn-users-into-profit/

Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video - and Is This Just the Beginning?

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/30/215236/did-will-smith-upload-an-ai-enhanced-video---and-is-this-just-the-beginning

With dawn of AI, talk of tech and religion merge for some

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-apocalypse-dfb0aa9e5e96c583461bdd56fb21568a

I Am An AI Hater

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/i-am-an-ai-hater/

How to stop AI agents going rogue

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq87e0dwj25o

One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/breaking_llms_for_fun/

A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-used-ai-automate-unprecedented-cybercrime-spree-anthropic-says-rcna227309

'AI slop' videos are taking over the internet

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5493485/ai-slop-videos-youtube-tiktok

How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-i-learned-to-stop-teaching-and-love-ai

The Sarin shortcut: How AI lowers the bar for chemical weapons

https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/the-sarin-shortcut-how-ai-lowers-the-bar-for-chemical-weapons/

Google Wants You to Know the Environmental Cost of Quizzing Its AI

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-wants-you-to-know-the-environmental-cost-of-quizzing-its-ai-143cfe19

I think this is misdirection: a query may only take 1/9^th of a unit, but the initial and ongoing training of the LLM that serves the query is humongous. From the article: “A data center that fuels AI can consume as much electricity as 100,000 households, but the largest ones that haven’t been completed yet could consume 20 times as much. It’s a particular problem in the U.S., with data centers making up nearly half of its electricity demand growth over the next five years, according to the IEA.”

AI, 'Grey Filters', and the Collapsing Unconscious

https://www.dailygrail.com/2025/08/ai-grey-filters-and-the-collapsing-unconscious/

Zuckerberg’s boring, bleak AI bet

https://www.vox.com/technology/438384/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-hiring-vision-personal-superintelligence

Threat Actors Are Increasingly Abusing Generative AI Tools for Phishing

https://blog.knowbe4.com/threat-actors-are-increasingly-abusing-generative-ai-tools-for-phishing

AI Is Talking to Your Children And It Isn’t Always Safe

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/08/ai-is-talking-to-your-children-and-it-isnt-always-safe.html

Is AI Taking Over Your Kid's Brain?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-matters/202506/is-ai-taking-over-your-kids-brain

After a Breakup, Man Says ChatGPT Tried to Convince Him He Could Secretly Fly — by Jumping from 19-Story Building

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/breakup-man-says-chatgpt-tried-142927035.html

AI slop, explained

https://www.snopes.com/articles/470975/ai-slop-media-literacy/

Bank Fires Workers in Favor of AI Chatbot, Rehires Them After Chatbot Is Terrible at the Job

https://gizmodo.com/bank-fires-workers-in-favor-of-ai-chatbot-rehires-them-after-chatbot-is-terrible-at-the-job-2000646573

AI-generated responses are undermining crowdsourced research studies

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492984-ai-generated-responses-are-undermining-crowdsourced-research-studies/

The Era of 'AI Psychosis' is Here.

https://gizmodo.com/ai-psychosis-mental-health-2000645293

Doctors who use AI may ‘forget’ some skills

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506292/doctors-ai-artificial-intelligence-dependent-colonoscopy

‘Quiet cracking’ is spreading in offices: Half of workers are at breaking point, and it’s costing companies $438 billion in productivity loss

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/quiet-cracking-spreading-offices-half-153018751.html?guccounter=1

AI’s cognitive implications: the decline of our thinking skills?

https://www.ie.edu/center-for-health-and-well-being/blog/ais-cognitive-implications-the-decline-of-our-thinking-skills/

What is ‘AI veganism?' A technology researcher weighs in

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/ai-veganism

The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI

"In the future, Hinton warned, AI systems might be able to control humans just as easily as an adult can bribe 3-year-old with candy. This year has already seen examples of AI systems willing to deceive, cheat and steal to achieve their goals. For example, to avoid being replaced, one AI model tried to blackmail an engineer about an affair it learned about in an email."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton

Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It

https://hbr.org/2025/07/why-understanding-ai-doesnt-necessarily-lead-people-to-embrace-it

AI browsers are coming for your clicks — and your privacy

https://proton.me/blog/ai-browsers-perplexity-chrome-privacy

The head of ChatGPT won’t rule out adding ads

https://www.theverge.com/news/759140/openai-chatgpt-ads-nick-turley-decoder

An internal Meta AI document said chatbots could have 'sensual' conversations with children

https://www.engadget.com/ai/an-internal-meta-ai-document-said-chatbots-could-have-sensual-conversations-with-children-191101296.html

Coders using AI tools more, trusting less: StackOverflow

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/coders_are_using_ai_tools/

Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds

https://gizmodo.com/doctors-were-worse-at-spotting-cancer-after-leaning-on-ai-study-finds-2000642527

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/

The Psychology of AI's Impact on Human Cognition

“AI is actively reshaping our mental landscape. “

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harnessing-hybrid-intelligence/202506/the-psychology-of-ais-impact-on-human-cognition

Students Have Been Called to the Office - Or Arrested - for False Alarms from AI-Powered Surveillance Systems

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/09/0624254/students-have-been-called-to-the-office---or-arrested---for-false-alarms-from-ai-powered-surveillance-systems

The Rise of AI for Talking to God

https://gizmodo.com/jesus-christ-the-rise-of-ai-for-talking-to-god-2000641940

Sorry, the optional AI is mandatory.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/sorry-the-optional-ai-is-mandatory/

Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery - Neowin

https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-under-fire-for-firefox-ai-bloat-that-blows-up-cpu-and-drains-battery/

The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

https://gizmodo.com/the-world-will-enter-a-15-year-ai-dystopia-in-2027-former-google-exec-says-2000641195

What's up with the negative reaction to ChatGPT-5? : r/OutOfTheLoop

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1mkvc8r/whats_up_with_the_negative_reaction_to_chatgpt5/

"Guests Fined $500 for Misusing Hotel Hairdryer": AI Scans Could Soon Monitor Every Move You Make In Your Room

https://viewfromthewing.com/guests-fined-500-for-misusing-hotel-hairdryer-ai-scans-could-soon-monitor-every-move-you-make-in-your-room/

Nearly half of all code generated by AI found to contain security flaws - even big LLMs affected

https://www.techradar.com/pro/nearly-half-of-all-code-generated-by-ai-found-to-contain-security-flaws-even-big-llms-affected

Electricity Prices are Going Up, and AI Is to Blame

https://gizmodo.com/electricity-prices-are-going-up-and-ai-is-to-blame-2000638567

Politico’s Rushed Adoption Of Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Continues To Go Terribly

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/politicos-rushed-adoption-of-half-cooked-ai-continues-to-go-terribly/