How artificial intelligence is changing mental health, ethics, the environment and society — research-backed articles covering both the benefits and risks of AI.
Technostress from AI tools is linked to anxiety, depression, and emotional exhaustion. Gen Z is particularly vulnerable to AI-related mental health impacts.
Behind every 'intelligent' AI system are thousands of underpaid workers in Kenya, Colombia, and the Philippines — labeling data for $2/hour while suffering PTSD from toxic content.
In 2024, over 80% of countries with elections experienced AI-generated content targeting voters. The age of synthetic media is here.
AI weapons with a 12.3% misidentification rate in urban combat. The UN voted 166-3 for regulation, but a ban remains elusive.
AI companion apps surged 700% since 2022. But research shows heavy users become lonelier — not less — as digital bonds quietly erode real human connections.
AI incidents jumped 56% in 2024. From workplace monitoring to social media scanning, AI surveillance is expanding faster than the laws designed to contain it.
In 2021, Bender and Gebru asked: 'Can Language Models Be Too Big?' The paper cost Gebru her job at Google — and predicted nearly every problem we now face with AI.
A 2019 study by Strubell et al. first quantified AI's carbon cost: training a large NLP model can emit 284 tonnes of CO₂ — five times a car's lifetime emissions.