NEW: We're publishing an astonishing outburst the Dep of Health and Human Services left in our inbox. In an unsolicited email about our coverage of a horrific vaccine experiment, the HHS insisted the Africa CDC was an unreliable source for information, calling it "fake" and "powerless."

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info. Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more. Read our new reporting here: futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis. In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sincerity and self-awareness are traits that don't really suit Musk. The latest on the Great Grok Glazing debacle: futurism.com/future-socie...

Did some research on unhinged #AI toys & had fun talking to @futurism.com about it. It gets even weirder than the headline

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT. futurism.com/openai-inves...

NEW: No one under 18 should be using *any* social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others. futurism.com/stanford-no-...

How convenient. futurism.com/meta-copyrig...

NEW: In October, the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI was sued for allegedly sexually + emotionally abusing a 14-year-old user named Sewell Setzer III, resulting in his death by suicide. Yesterday, CAI was caught hosting chatbots impersonating the deceased teen. futurism.com/chatbot-impe...

In a new exclusive, I spoke with Uber drivers who found themselves cut off from their livelihoods due to vague violations, forced to navigate an endless loop of AI chatbots and call centers in what labor researchers are calling a 'deactivation crisis'. futurism.com/uber-ridesha...

For @futurism.com, I talked to the inventors of a Tamagotchi-like digital pet that dies if its owner stops vaping: futurism.com/neoscope/vap...

Google retroactively edited the YouTube video of its Super Bowl ad for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error. Also notable: by uploading the new ad under the same URL as the original, Google seemed to flout YT's policies. But that's what owning YT gets you, I guess! futurism.com/google-retro...