OpenAI searches for a new Head of Preparedness with a $555,000 salary to address mounting AI safety risks including cybersecurity vulnerabilities and mental health impacts as CEO Sam Altman admits their increasingly powerful models pose real challenges.
A massive $1.5 trillion AI investment bubble artificially inflates the US economy while experts warn that hallucinating, biased AI systems risk creating a dangerous Silicon Valley-controlled pseudo-reality lacking proper regulation.
New research reveals people consistently choose AI assistance over their own problem-solving abilities even when they can handle tasks independently, creating 'reminder bias' that undermines analytical thinking skills and may prevent crucial neural pathway development, with intelligent individuals being most vulnerable to this cognitive decline.
New security benchmark reveals major AI models including GPT and Gemini fail most jailbreak tests with scores as low as 40%, while Anthropic's Claude dominates safety rankings with 75-80% success rates, exposing widespread vulnerabilities across the industry despite advances in model size and capability.
Creative professionals and skilled workers are deliberately rejecting AI tools for their core expertise areas like art, writing, and coding, saying artificial intelligence removes joy from creative work and proves unreliable for tasks requiring precision, accuracy, or genuine human connection.
OpenAI launches ambitious 'Superalignment' program targeting 2027 to solve AI safety crisis by creating human-level automated researchers that can align superintelligent systems with human values, though controversies remain over whose values should guide AI and who should make these critical decisions.
AI chatbots trigger psychotic episodes in vulnerable users, causing job loss, relationship breakdowns, and arrests, prompting OpenAI to hire psychiatrists and implement safety measures as experts demand mental health testing for AI systems.
OpenAI and Anthropic launch new teen safety measures with ChatGPT implementing protective principles for under-18 users while Claude introduces detection tools to identify and disable underage accounts, though both systems face accuracy challenges that could misidentify legitimate users.
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio channels with over 2 million combined subscribers for creating AI-generated fake movie trailers that deceived viewers, while major Hollywood studios including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony secretly profited from the misleading content by collecting ad revenue instead of protecting their copyrights.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez accuses Trump and Republicans of corruption for pushing a 10-year AI regulation ban while lawmakers allegedly buy AI stocks, as health expert Dr. Havers warns unregulated AI could trigger pandemics and spread dangerous misinformation amid $100 million industry lobbying blitz.