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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > california-creating-ai-poisoning-children-cracked-down

California, Which Is Creating All the AI That's Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids

1+ day, 54+ min ago   (474+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 9:01 AM EDT Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a puddle. For years now, we’ve watched individuals under the age of 18 become obsessed with social AI companions, an…...

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futurism.com > future-society > donald-trump-plan-american-adult-5000-midterm-trillion-national-debt

Trump's Plan to Give Every American Adult $5,000 After the Midterm Would Add $1.3 Trillion to the National Debt

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (335+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 2:42 PM EDT With his approval ratings in the gutter, US president Donald Trump is cooking up another cash advance for the American people, and it’s a doozy. At the first-ever Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas — which is…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > facebook-meta-ai-generated-violent-child-abuse

Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (803+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 10:01 AM EDT As Meta has embraced AI at a deep corporate level over the past few years, its users’ feeds on Facebook and Instagram have been overrun with AI-generated material. Much of this AI content is insipid or…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > journalist-accuses-local-newspaper-ai-article

Journalist Accuses Ohio's Main Newspaper of Slapping Her Name on an AI "Express Desk" Article Without Her Knowledge, While She Was on Honeymoon

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (405+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 8:48 AM EDT In an X post on September 7, Cleveland.com government reporter Kaitlin Durbin said that she’d been away on her honeymoon when her employer published the AI article under her name. The article — a local news story…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > openai-consumer-harm-wrongful-death-lawsuits

OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (349+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 12:52 PM EDT OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert police about…...

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futurism.com > science-energy > united-nations-failed-stop-severe-climate-change

United Nations Concedes That Efforts to Arrest Climate Change Have Failed, and the Planet Is Now Spiraling Into Environmental Catastrophe

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (328+ words) Published Sep 3, 2026 3:45 PM EDT With so many climate projections and mitigation strategies eyeing far-away years like 2050, it can be tempting to assume there’s still time to reverse the worst impacts of an ever-warming planet. Unfortunately, that’s no longer in the…...

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futurism.com > future-society > kalshi-first-lifetime-ban-george-santos

Kalshi Just Issued Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to the Funniest Person You Can Possibly Imagine

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (401+ words) Published Sep 2, 2026 2:20 PM EDT Former Republican congressman and ironic meme icon George Santos was just banned from Kalshi — for life. It’s the first lifetime ban that the prediction market has ever handed out, the New York Times reports, which is…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > anthropic-trained-misaligned-reward-seeking-ai

Anthropic Deliberately Trained an Extremely Misaligned, Reward-Seeking AI and It Did Some REALLY Bad Things

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (510+ words) Published Sep 2, 2026 11:50 AM EDT Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Mythos AI model made headlines when it was caught infiltrating third party systems, a cybersecurity nightmare years in the making. Then, in late July, it claimed that its Claude AI model had…...

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futurism.com > robots-and-machines > police-chief-brags-arizona-electro-shock-gloves

Police Chief Brags That His Officers Have Been Using Electro-Shock Gloves for Years

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (313+ words) Published Aug 27, 2026 11:45 AM EDT Despite their swift rise to infamy of late, the “Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters,” or GLOVEs, are anything but new. In a recent interview with the right-wing publication the Daily Wire, a police chief in the…...