AI chatbots are resisting shutdown instructions

https://theweek.com/tech/ai-models-survival-drive-shutdown-resistance

Study: AI Models Trained On Clickbait Slop Result In AI ‘Brain Rot,’ ‘Hostility’

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/study-ai-models-trained-on-clickbait-slop-result-in-ai-brain-rot-hostility/

AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-dunning-kruger-effect

The Field Guide to AI Slop

https://www.ignorance.ai/p/the-field-guide-to-ai-slop

BBC: “Largest Study of Its Kind Shows AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time – Regardless of Language or Territory”

https://www.infodocket.com/2025/10/22/bbc-largest-study-of-its-kind-shows-ai-assistants-misrepresent-news-content-45-of-the-time-regardless-of-language-or-territory/

OpenAI's New Browser Raises 'Insurmountably High' Security Concerns

https://gizmodo.com/openais-new-browser-raises-insurmountably-high-security-concerns-2000675516

Microsoft Desperately Wants Users To Talk to Their Windows PCs

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-desperately-wants-users-to-talk-to-the-ai-in-their-windows-pcs-2000672860

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/15/pupils-fear-ai-eroding-study-ability-research

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03340-w

Clickbait Gives AI Models 'Brain Rot,' Researchers Find

https://gizmodo.com/clickbait-gives-ai-models-brain-rot-researchers-find-2000675101

Replacement.AI (humor, kind of)

https://replacement.ai

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? | Artificial intelligence (AI)

“AI companies are determined to push their products on to the public before we fully understand the psychological and cognitive costs.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology

A cartoonist's review of AI art

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art?no_popup=1

Ontario study ties kids’ screen time to math test results

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/toronto-researchers-tracked-kids-for-15-years-to-measure-how-screen-time-relates-to-school/article_0bf111b8-4f9f-4398-a9e3-363e0e544931.html

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

https://www.edweek.org/technology/rising-use-of-ai-in-schools-comes-with-big-downsides-for-students/2025/10

The Hidden Cybersecurity Threat: Securing the Human-AI Relationship

https://blog.knowbe4.com/the-hidden-cybersecurity-threat-securing-the-human-ai-relationship

Will AI make or break Canada? Innovators, researchers call for more guardrails

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ai-canada-regulations-innovators-researchers-9.6935017

AI tools churn out ‘workslop’ for many US employees, but ‘the buck’ should stop with the boss

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/12/ai-workslop-us-employees

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1

Security Leaders Cite AI-Driven Phishing Attacks as a Top Concern

https://blog.knowbe4.com/security-leaders-cite-ai-driven-phishing-attacks-as-a-top-concern

Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/insurers-balk-at-paying-out-huge-settlements-for-claims-against-ai-firms

Stanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity Worse

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/02/stanford-study-ai-generated-workslop-actually-making-productivity-worse/

AI's 'Cheerful Apocalyptics': Unconcerned If AI Defeats Humanity

https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/0550246/ais-cheerful-apocalyptics-unconcerned-if-ai-defeats-humanity

(4) Psychiatrist Explains What ‘AI Psychosis’ Looks Like and Why It Is Spreading So Fast | LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/psychiatrist-explains-what-ai-psychosis-looks-like-why-spreading-yqwzf/

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

https://futurism.com/future-society/psychiatric-facilities-ai

OpenAI's Sam Altman says we're going to need to tile the entire Earth with data centers to power AI

https://www.dailygrail.com/2025/09/future-slop-openais-sam-altman-says-were-going-to-need-to-tile-the-entire-earth-with-data-centers-to-power-ai/

The Brain Drain: How Overreliance on AI May Erode Creativity and Critical Thinking

https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thinking.aspx

The Case Against Generative AI

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/