AI and the “Accursed Flower”
If AI ever gets too big for its algorithmic boots, God might ‘Tower-of-Babel’ it.Whatever the AI pros and cons for or against human flourishing, never forget that the universe has a moral order.
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AI-Lawyers Will Have Fools for Clients
When tech prophets promise everything—except accuracy.Lazy lawyers have no doubt filed hallucinated content orders of magnitude more often.
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Artificial Specific Stupidity is Easy to Find – Just Ask
AI can make mistakes, so double-check it.Large Language Models are good with such queries, because they can process questions that older models were incapable of handling. But they are capable of returning utter nonsense, making up data, making false promises, and more.
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AI Hype Explodes Again:
Even as Cracks in AI Bubble Get BiggerAI related companies have accrued at least $200 billion in debt and the figure is likely considerably higher because that estimate doesn’t count undisclosed private deals.
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Can AI Save Theaters?
A YouTuber’s micro‑budget thriller just went the distance against Disney’s latest heavyweight.The A-list actor has become a thing of the past. Hollywood decided to focus on adapting franchises rather than promoting their actors, and because of this, most of the few A-list actors who remain have been grandfathered in. They are survivors of an old era.
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Washington Post Fires Hundreds of Journalists
The Post has struggled in recent years and even saw a major dip in subscriptions back in 2024Owner Jeff Bezos has not yet succeeded in making the company financially viable in a time when so much media and journalism is now being independently created.
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Harari, Humans, Algorithms, and AI
A futurist’s warning: AI may soon redefine the boundaries of human agencyThis anthropological starting point assumes the similarity of humans to computers, not the other way around.
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125 Flubbed Headline Prompts to AI
Double meanings, double trouble: The art of reading between the linesFlubbed headlines are fun. There are typically two meanings. One is the obvious meaning, meant by the writer of the headline. The second is an interpretation, which can be hilarious.
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Computer Intelligence Versus Human Intelligence
Professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot he named ELIZA that conversed with users the way a psychotherapist mightEven though the users knew they were interacting with a computer, many were convinced that the program had human-like intelligence and emotions and they happily shared their deepest feelings and most closely held secrets.
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A Pioneer Ahead of His Time: Bernard Widrow and the Origins of Modern AI
While history has not always granted him the recognition he deserved, every modern neural network quietly echoes Widrow's ideas.Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron.
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Heavens! Are You an AI Denialist?
Accusations of “AI denialism” smear thoughtful critics as mentally disorderedRosenberg purports to cite pundits saying chatbot outputs are “AI slop,” that “the era of rapid AI advancement is ending,” that “AI scaling has hit the wall,” and the AI boom is just another “tech bubble.” No human is cited for these remarks.
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In 2026, Real Artistry Will Help Brands and Businesses
2025 was AI's big year. Will 2026 follow suit, or will the scales start to balance?Enter Porsche, the car company, and it’s advertisement, contrasting with Coca-Cola, shows the time-tested beauties of hand-drawn and CGI animation.
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WHY DO CHATBOTS LEAD LEARNERS ASTRAY?
How interface‑level social cues encourage relational engagement with chatbotsBig Tech’s signature exploitative strategies optimize for engagement, not for truth. By manipulating our behavioural psychology in this way, chatbots become top of mind when we have a question about anything, or just need a friend.
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AI Developers Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
The decision drew a lot of criticism.On the cover of the magazine issue, tech giants including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg are pictured sitting on a construction beam.
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New ChatGPT Ads Assume People Can’t Think for Themselves
ChatGPT wants to do it all for you.This sort of thinking assumes that modern people are no longer intelligent enough to do the things that former generations easily managed.
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How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones
What is all of this digital content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone?For those familiar with the novel Brave New World, this distracted, dopamine-addled brand of a society was all but predicted almost a century ago.
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New Allegations Claim Meta Dismissed Risks to Children
New complaints, same story: Meta cares more about business growth than protecting kidsThis new litany of complaints feels like it will be a lot tougher for the tech behemoth to successfully battle.
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Tech Addiction is Reaching a Frightening New Level
Young people are spending endless time online seeking drug-like states of mindKolitz wraps up his article by stressing how this new type of addiction isn’t so far removed from the more culturally accepted forms of mindless scrolling.
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AI Psychosis and the Need for Human Exceptionalism
I pronounce you husband and chatbot?AI is a tool with certain potentials and limits across various fields, but basic anthropological confusion can do a lot of damage. What happens when AI programs cease to be seen as mere tools, meant to used in limited ways and used wisely, and are considered “persons?” It sounds silly to pose the question, but that’s where we are. Futurism writer Frank Landymore reports on an Ohio legislative measure to ban human-AI marital unions. The bill must be intended to be preventative, since AI bots and programs aren’t recognized as legal persons (yet), but it speaks to a cultural trend that, if undealt with, could blow out of proportion. Landymore writes, Popular chatbots are capable of being eerily lifelike, effortlessly Read More ›
Love, Lies, and Algorithms: The Dangers of Relational AI
Today, we hear from Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, podcaster, and writer Andrew McDiarmid as he chats with In The Market radio host Janet Parshall about the dangers associated with humans having relationships with AI. The discussion focuses on what McDiarmid calls “relational AI” – AI chatbots and assistants that aim to mimic human interactions and relationships. McDiarmid discusses how relational AI can Read More ›