Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-study-leading-ai-models-show-up-to-96-blackmail-rate-against-executives/

Your Brain Instantly Sees What You Can Do, AI Still Can’t

Summary: New research shows that the human brain automatically recognizes what actions an environment affords, like walking, climbing, or swimming, even without conscious thought.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://neurosciencenews.com/human-ai-visual-encoding-29279/

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development

The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors' generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it's already kneecapping the development of future AI models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development

Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/companies-replaced-workers-ai

AI runs on dirty power — and the public pays the price

The data center boom is driving utilities to torpedo renewable energy goals and rely on fossil fuels, pushing data centers' expected air-pollution-related public health costs to between $5.7 billion and $9.2 billion annually, a Business Insider investigation found.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-runs-dirty-power-and-the-public-pays-the-price-2025-6

Engineer: With AI, "Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over... It’s Just a Matter of Time"

You hear two wildly diverging narratives about AI lately. One, emanating mainly from the tech sector, is that AI is not only poised to supersede human intelligence, but is already radically changing the world and workforce.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/engineer-ai-job-automation

I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT

For most of my career, I taught writing, literature, and language, primarily to university students. I quit, in large part, because of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7026050/chatgpt-quit-teaching-ai-essay/

https://openai.com/index/affective-use-study/

ORIGINAL LINK: https://openai.com/index/affective-use-study/

Joint studies from OpenAI and MIT found links between loneliness and ChatGPT use

Studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found connections between the amount a user talks to ChatGPT and how lonely they feel.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.engadget.com/ai/joint-studies-from-openai-and-mit-found-links-between-loneliness-and-chatgpt-use-193537421.html

https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.apa.org/topics/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/health-advisory-ai-adolescent-well-being

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

Gemini can turn text into audio overviews — here's how to do it

You may already be familiar with NotebookLM, Google's Gemini-powered research companion. If you're new to it, it's worth exploring its standout feature called Audio Overview, which takes uploaded information and turns it into a podcast hosted by two AI presenters.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/gemini-can-turn-text-into-audio-overviews-heres-how-to-do-it

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development

The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors' generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it's already kneecapping the development of future AI models.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development

A Knockout Blow for LLMs?

Ha ha ha. But What’s the fuss about? Apple has a new paper; it’s pretty devastating to LLMs, a powerful followup to one from many of the same authors last year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/a-knockout-blow-for-llms/

The Godfather of AI reveals which jobs are safest — and where 'everybody' will get replaced

Now is a great time to become a plumber, at least according to the so-called Godfather of AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-safe-jobs-2025-6

With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to ChatGPT Pro and Team users, replacing o1-pro in the model picker.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/with-the-launch-of-o3-pro-lets-talk-about-what-ai-reasoning-actually-does/