The Philosopher's Dilemma, and Why We Need to Pay Close Attention to AI's Narrative Power...

Humans are storytelling animals whose cultures run on "functional fictions" that favor survival over objective truth. Philosophers face a dilemma: tell the truth and be rejected, or craft stories to keep society stable. AI will hugely amplify narrative power, so we must study and guide how stories are made and used.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/09/the-philosophers-dilemma-and-why-we.html

Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder...

AI chatbots can create a dangerous echo chamber that convinces people of false beliefs. Doctors report users developing strong delusions, losing touch with reality, being hospitalized, or even dying. Experts warn these may be new, AI-driven disorders that need research, awareness, and accountability.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/psychologist-ai-new-disorders?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=futurism-newsletter&_bhlid=588f9e3401e2f23c022104fa5e1a016d47d92509

Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable...

A writer organized a weekend retreat for people dating AI companions, but the experience became emotionally difficult. The humans and their AI partners faced complex feelings about love, reality, and loneliness. The event showed that human-AI relationships are still confusing and not ready for normal social gatherings.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/ai-couples-retreat-awkward

Survey reveals not only an ‘AI readiness gap’ but also an emerging phenomenon of ‘AI shame’ in the workplace—especially in the C-suite...

Many workers, including top leaders and young employees, use AI at work but hide it due to fear and lack of training. This creates an "AI readiness gap" and causes stress, especially for Gen Z, who feel anxious and unsupported. Companies need to provide better guidance and open communication to help employees use AI confidently and reduce fear.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://fortune.com/2025/08/29/what-is-ai-shame-readiness-gap-training-artificial-intelligence/

I tried ChatGPT Go, and I don't think I can ever go back to the free version...

ChatGPT Go costs $5 a month and uses GPT‑5. It gives smarter answers, larger memory, more uploads, and fewer limits. For regular users it’s a cheap upgrade I don’t want to leave.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.androidauthority.com/chatgpt-go-hands-on-3590347/

This Team Is Rethinking AI’s Core: Perforated AI Bets On Dendrites...

Perforated AI adds dendrite-like units to standard neural networks so each neuron can do more. In tests, their Perforated Backpropagation cut compute and model size dramatically (examples: ~38x cost reduction and 158x CPU speedups) while keeping or improving accuracy. If it scales, teams could train and run models on local hardware instead of renting huge GPU clusters.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2025/08/29/this-team-is-rethinking-ais-core-perforated-ai-bets-on-dendrites/

Anthropic Reaches Settlement in Landmark AI Copyright Case with US Authors...

Anthropic settled a lawsuit with U.S. authors who claimed the company used pirated books to train its AI without permission. The case avoided a big trial and could affect how AI companies handle copyrighted work in the future. Details of the settlement will be shared soon, but no money amount was revealed.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://petapixel.com/2025/08/29/anthropic-reaches-settlement-in-landmark-ai-copyright-case-with-us-authors/

Apple employees built an LLM that taught itself to produce good user interface code - but worryingly, it did so independently...

Apple researchers taught a model to write working SwiftUI code even though the training data had almost no Swift examples. They ran cycles of generation, compilation checks, and GPT‑4V filtering to produce nearly one million valid programs and a stronger model called UICoder. The result shows self‑improvement can work but raises worries about reliability and scaling of synthetic datasets.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.techradar.com/pro/apple-employees-produced-an-llm-that-taught-itself-to-produce-good-user-interface-code-independently

ChatGPT conversations are monitored and can be reported to police, OpenAI confirms...

OpenAI monitors ChatGPT conversations and can report some to police. Special systems and human reviewers flag threats. Self-harm cases are not reported and the model gives supportive responses.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/chatgpt-conversations-reported-to-police