A hotel being sued for mass food poisonings was described as “spotless” and a resort where guests complained of sexual harassment by staff was praised for “friendly” service by an AI intended to summarise millions of Tripadvisor reviews.
The tech industry is about to flood the market with AI glasses with cameras for multimodal AI. But the public is already turning against the idea. Who will win?
Google was built on a Grand Bargain with content creators: traffic for content. Now it wants content without giving traffic. It’s time for a post-Google internet.
According to Vatican statements, the pope is scheduled to present Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, an encyclical focused on “the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.”
Emotion AI holds out the promise that leaders can bypass the need to inspire, motivate and educate employees so that their actions are aligned with company goals, and instead try to achieve this alignment through hyper-surveillance.
This vital resource 1) Finds nearby bars, 2) Optimizes the walking order, 3) Draws the route on the map, 4) Calculates total walking distance and time, and 5) Lists every stop in order.
The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely and totally flunked the assignment.
New research presented at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that the power of AI chatbots is fuelling AI addiction, and that chatbot design could be partly to blame.
Fake empathy, humor, chattiness, and other human-like qualities can delude chatbot users into believing AI has thoughts and feelings. It doesn’t, and there's an intriguing way to fix the problem.