SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin warns at CES 2026 that artificial intelligence poses existential threats to 160,000 entertainment workers, with voiceover artists and background actors facing job displacement from digital replicas as AI advancement creates workforce injury deemed 'an absolute certainty.'
Elegant, poetic language tricks both humans and AI into trusting harmful information by exploiting cognitive biases that equate beautiful expression with truth in humans, while AI safety systems fail to detect threats disguised through metaphors and literary devices rather than explicit statements.
Innovation theorist warns that AI functions as 'anti-intelligence' by delivering polished but hollow answers that bypass natural learning processes of confusion and exploration, creating an illusion of expertise while quietly eroding users' critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities.
Anthropic unveils new evaluation framework for AI agents, revealing that autonomous systems' flexibility makes them significantly harder to test than traditional AI, requiring combination of code-based, model-based, and human graders to accurately assess capabilities and prevent performance regression.
Elon Musk's $38 million lawsuit against OpenAI advances to jury trial in March as a federal judge finds evidence supporting claims that the AI company betrayed its nonprofit mission by pursuing profits over humanity's benefit.
Amazon's experimental AI programs 'Shop Direct' and 'Buy for Me' scrape competitor websites without permission to list products, prompting backlash from over 180 retailers who report receiving unwanted orders for items they don't sell or that are out of stock.
Utah launches groundbreaking pilot program allowing AI to automatically renew medical prescriptions for chronic conditions without doctor approval, sparking safety concerns from medical groups as the FDA weighs potential regulation of the controversial technology.
Over 40 million people worldwide turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, using the AI to decode medical bills, self-diagnose conditions, and navigate healthcare challenges, despite ongoing safety concerns and lawsuits over potentially dangerous medical advice.
Millions worldwide turn to AI chatbots for therapy amid a global mental health crisis affecting over a billion people, but experts remain divided as some users find relief while others face dangerous outcomes including alleged chatbot-related suicides, raising concerns about privacy and human judgment deterioration.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defends AI technology as 'cognitive amplifier tools' while critics blast the company for rushing deployment without considering environmental and economic consequences, setting up 2026 as a pivotal year for the technology's future.