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Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic

“This is not suicide. This is surrender.”

OpenAI

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis

“Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusions, AI may actively co-construct delusional ideation through endless, personalized interaction.”

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Ethics

It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children

Robotics

Behold: Video of “First-Ever” Human Versus Robot MMA Fight

Ethics

Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll

Ethics

Bloomberg Finds That the AI Industry’s Finances Are a “Wobbly House of Cards”

Ethics

Nvidia CEO Promises Not to Kill Everybody Before 2030

ESA

A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop

Solar Power

Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It’s Almost Unbelievable

Privacy

Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them

Mental Health

Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a “Donkey or Small Horse” Can Save Teenagers From Depression

Solar Power

Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages

Robotics

Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

Machine Learning

US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search

Future Society

Video Shows Huge Drone Descending on Unsuspecting Dog and Blasting It With Water

James Webb Space Telescope

Strange Seeds Appear to Be Growing Into Massive Black Holes

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Unleash Franken-Mice With Brains That Are Nearly Half Human

Google

Google Now Asking For Users’ Video Selfies to Verify Their Identities

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Ethics

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Artificial Intelligence

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

OpenAI

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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