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Hsu, Tiffany, et. al. “OpenAI’s Sora makes disinformation extremely easy and extremely real.” NY Times, 3 Oct. 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/technology/sora-openai-video-disinformation.html. This New York Times article discusses OpenAI’s app Sora, which takes a text prompt or user-uploaded media to generate realistic audio and video clips. Video and audio recordings have come to be considered reliable evidence, maintaining…

Fauria, Krysta. “AI Apocalypse? Why Language Surrounding Tech is Sounding Increasingly Religious.” Associated Press, 29 Aug. 2025, apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-apocalypse-dfb0aa9e5e96c583461bdd56fb21568a. Fauria discusses the implications of common language and terminology used to identify AI’s capabilities. While many have noticed the humanization of AI, Fauria addresses the even more extreme divine sort of language that prominent tech figures use…

Yeyati, Eduardo Levy. “The HAL dilemma: why AI obedience may be more dangerous than AI rebellion.” The Brookings Institution, 13 Oct. 2025, www.brookings.edu/articles/the-hal-dilemma-why-ai-obedience-may-be-more-dangerous-than-ai-rebellion. Yeyeti’s article from The Brookings Institution offers a logical commentary stemming from the often illogical fears over AI sentience. He refers to the consciousness debate as a “false comfort”, misdirecting our anxieties…

Delistry, Cody. “A.I. Isn’t Magic. Lots of People are Acting Like it is.” The New York Times, 25 Sept. 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/opinion/artificial-intelligence-magical-thinking.html. Cody Delistry talks about the “magical thinking” that has developed around AI, comparing AI to past technological and scientific advancements that humans once attributed to the supernatural. He begins his article by referencing the…

Lepore, Jill. “How We the People Lost Control of Our Lives and How We Can Get It Back.” The New York Times, 17 Sept. 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/opinion/altman-ai-constiutional-convention.html. In her New York Times article, Jill Lepore discusses AI in relation to American governmental processes and the potential of the American people to have more of a say…

Tan, Eli. “How ‘Clankers’ Became an Anti-AI Rallying Cry.” The New York Times, 31 Aug. 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/technology/clanker-anti-ai.html. In his New York Times article from August of this year, Eli Tan discusses a term being used by people as a slur against AI and robots: “Clanker”. Coming from a reference to Star Wars and tracked by…

Hashimoto, Reeno. “An AI Simulation of a Mount Fuji eruption is being used to prepare Tokyo for the worst.” Associated Press, 28 Aug. 2025, https://apnews.com/article/mount-fuji-eruption-ai-video-japan-tokyo-f1729ae8915ec050240a24ea94637e7f. Hashimoto writes about the presentation and public reaction to an AI-simulated eruption of Mount Fuji, released by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for “Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day”. The videos were intended…

Wright, Webb. “Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries.” Wired, 2 Sept. 2025, www.wired.com/story/spiritual-influencers-say-sentient-ai-can-help-you-solve-lifes-mysteries. Webb Wright writes about the spiritualizing of AI and the increase in techno-theology via social media influencers. With a focus on Robert Edward Grant, a “guru” who created and introduced his online followers to a ChatGPT-based bot…