How AI is changing our lives — for better and worse. Articles, research, videos and reflections in one place.
Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, along with leading AI researchers, published a joint call in Science for urgent action on catastrophic AI risks.
A comprehensive survey cataloging the types, causes, and mitigation strategies for hallucinations in large language models — a fundamental challenge that impacts trust and safety.
Research on AI companion apps reveals users develop genuine emotional attachments, experience distress when the AI changes, and may substitute AI relationships for human ones.
A growing body of 2024 research suggests that students who regularly use ChatGPT for academic work show measurable declines in critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 50+ studies confirming a consistent association between screen-based technology use and disrupted sleep among adolescents.
MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle's influential work documenting how digital communication substitutes — now including AI companions — are eroding our capacity for empathy, vulnerability, and deep human connection.
Research shows that humans systematically over-rely on automated systems, failing to notice errors and ignoring contradictory evidence — a pattern that intensifies with AI.
Landmark audit revealing that commercial facial recognition systems misclassified darker-skinned women up to 34.7% of the time, while achieving near-perfect accuracy for lighter-skinned men.
First study to quantify AI water consumption: training GPT-3 consumed 700,000 liters of fresh water, and a 20-50 question ChatGPT conversation uses approximately 500ml.