Of Logic and Lawyers: AI’s Fragile Competence
The case against near‑term legal automation—and the AI blind spots that still matter.First, we must remind ourselves that “data is not the plural of anecdote.”
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Are Young People Getting Tired of AI?
A new article suggests teens are not universally excited about the blossoming technologyJulie Jargon wrote an interesting piece for The Wall Street Journal about teen attitudes towards AI and found that their view of it isn’t so optimistic as many might assume.
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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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AI Data Centers Are Using Water, and Lots of It
Will studies like this spark a new kind of pushback in the coming year?The study has arrived on the heels of Time Magazine’s decision to elect a number of AI company CEOs as its annual “Person of the Year.”
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Why I Respectfully Disagree With Bill Dembski on AI in Education
Are GenAI chatbots really the bridge over the gulf of our education crisis?Dr. Dembski wants us to use technology with wisdom. I share his broader goal, but not the use of generative AI chatbots to get there.
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The Chatbots’ Most Dangerous Correlations
To give these machines blind trust really is the case of the blind leading the blind, and that is not likely to end wellWhen you prompt an LLM, the entire conversation acts as a prompt driving the reply. Thus your prompt can push the LLM in unforeseen, unintended directions.
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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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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 ›
Turing Test 2.0: A Better Way to Test Machine Intelligence?
On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks speaks with Dr. Georgios Mappouras about his proposal for a more rigorous test for measuring artificial intelligence. Mappouras argues that the original Turing Test is not enough to determine true intelligence in AI systems, as it focuses too much on simulating human-like conversation rather than demonstrating genuine understanding and problem-solving Read More ›
GPT 5.0 Doesn’t Understand But Is Eager to Please
Over a number of tries, it couldn’t get the labels on an illustration right because it does not understand what the words mean and how they relate to the imageThe test also shows GPT 5.0’s inclination to praise a user’s acuity, whether the user’s comment is correct or incorrect, intelligent of dumb.
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In Connecticut, the Horrors of AI Descend with Full Force
AI as “friends” and “confidants”? David Klinghoffer warns that this way of talking and thinking needs to be recognized as encouraging delusionAs John West writes, “essentially OpenAI is using its technology as a replacement for human counselors and advisors.”
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AI: Tool or Companion?
Personalized AI systems only make sense in a friendless society.One of the problems of AI-human “relationships” is that, by definition, we cannot relate to a computer, nor can a computer relate to us.
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Internal Meta Document Reveals Shockingly Permissive Standards
Advocates call for more safety as AI bots flood the sceneAccording to a report from Reuters, Meta, parent company of Facebook, has allowed its chatbot to flirt and have “sensual” conversations with children. Meta AI is now accessible on various Meta platforms, and age limits are essentially suggestions, not requirements. Anyone can lie about their age and create an account. Jeff Horwitz writes, These and other findings emerge from a Reuters review of the Meta document, which discusses the standards that guide its generative AI assistant, Meta AI, and chatbots available on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the company’s social-media platforms. Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage Read More ›
Can Chatbots Really Scheme Against Us? Some Researchers Say Yes
When an industry pro tested ChatGPT, it seemed like the system has faced this question a few times before and has been tweaked and edited wellSo CAN a chatbot really scheme? No, but the problem posed is a familiar one: We sometimes see what we need to believe.
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The State of Reading in an AI World
Are we heading to a post-literate society?Whatever one’s opinion, it’s still a fact that, unlike a human writer or artist, AI can’t think or feel.
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Did Orwell’s 1984 Predict the Rise of AI?
A simple act like writing a diary entry emblemizes the struggle to stay humanThree books stand at the top of the dystopian genre, even several decades after their publication: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley; Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury; and perhaps supremely, 1984, by George Orwell. Each novel features versions of a futuristic society in which freedom is restricted (through different means) and foresees a bleak existence governed by the basest impulses in the human race. While Orwell’s masterpiece is typically hailed as a warning of the surveillance state, where individuality is erased in favor of group identity, it is also about the rise of technologies that replace human thought. Novelist Walter Kirn points this out in a recent episode of America This Week: 1984 is the story of the extinguishing, the Read More ›
AI Still Can’t Think
It can only create the appearance of thoughtAI, as a tool, can have a lot of benefits and uses, but as we’ve witnessed time and time again, it often makes mistakes.
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AI Blackmail & Clickbait: Give Us Dirty Laundry
Despite all the hype about AI threatening blackmail, here’s what really happened…Chatbots have been trained on such stories. People forget it’s just a machine and panic because they think of it as a person who really thinks things.
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