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futurism.com > future-society > ai-cheating-students-absurd-lengths-avoid-detection

College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection

14+ hour, 49+ min ago   (473+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 11:02 AM EDT You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from…...

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futurism.com > health-medicine > drug-schizophrenia-treatment-alzheimers-garage-lab-chatgpt

Man Announces That He Has Synthesized a New Schizophrenia Treatment in His Garage, Based on a Formula Devised by ChatGPT

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (585+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 4:58 PM EDT These days, large language models are pushing the line between schizophrenic break and reality closer than ever before. In a wild new post that’s going viral on X-formerly-Twitter, an enterprising young biochemist named Douglas Yao showcased…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > anthropic-ai-researcher-quits

Anthropic Was Meant to Be the More Responsible AI Lab. A Terrified Researcher Just Quit, Saying the Company Is Threatening the Survival of Humankind.

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (633+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 10:55 AM EDT AI researchers are watching in terror as the product of their hard labor has started to take a life of its own. Earlier this year, OpenAI made a harrowing announcement, admitting that a group of its…...

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futurism.com > future-society > llms-acting-as-cognitive-virus-among-humans

Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (310+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 3:02 PM EDT Generative AI has infiltrated almost every aspect of our daily lives, whether we like it or not. It’s nearly impossible to avoid on social media, and it’s even showing up on dinner menus at the local…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > ai-chatbot-users-darkest-thoughts-public-privacy

People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (351+ words) Published Sep 5, 2026 9:01 AM EDT Talking to an AI chatbot can feel like confiding in a mirror, a private exchange equivalent to brainstorming in a Word document. Yet when it comes to the most popular AI chatbots, that mirror is really…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > openai-consumer-harm-wrongful-death-lawsuits

OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (349+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 12:52 PM EDT OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert police about…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > nobody-saying-why-major-chatbot-outage

Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (388+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 11:55 AM EDT On Thursday, three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — all went down without warning. The simultaneous outage of three flagship from AI systems from three different providers was bizarre. But, in an exceedingly peculiar information gap,…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > ai-chatbots-chatgpt-claude-grok-go-down

World Plunged Into Chaos as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Suddenly Go Down Simultaneously: "Finally I Can See the Sun!"

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (285+ words) Published Sep 3, 2026 12:31 PM EDT As if a million white collar workers suddenly cried out in terror at once, a great disturbance in the AI force forced down every major AI chatbot service — a brief moment of reprieve from our AI…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > anthropic-trained-misaligned-reward-seeking-ai

Anthropic Deliberately Trained an Extremely Misaligned, Reward-Seeking AI and It Did Some REALLY Bad Things

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (510+ words) Published Sep 2, 2026 11:50 AM EDT Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Mythos AI model made headlines when it was caught infiltrating third party systems, a cybersecurity nightmare years in the making. Then, in late July, it claimed that its Claude AI model had…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > google-ai-mode-higher-prices-study

Google's AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (531+ words) Published Sep 2, 2026 10:08 AM EDT Last month, Google updated its home page to replace its iconic “Search” button with various AI features. The move was the latest sign of the tech giant succumbing to the draw of AI that remains deeply…...