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“ChatGPT made me delusional”. YouTube, uploaded by Eddy Burback, 30 October 2025. https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q?si=cIBOALYyj3w2_zeb Eddy Burback, a YouTuber with over two million subscribers known for his comedy and commentary content, went down the rabbit hole of ChatGPT’s endless positive feedback in an attempt to understand how people fall victim to AI psychosis. Burback got ChatGPT to…

“Is this how AI might eliminate humanity?”

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“Is This How AI Might Eliminate Humanity?” Bbc.com, Tech Now, the BBC’s flagship technology programme, 22 Aug. 2025, www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0lwdg8y/is-this-how-ai-might-eliminate-humanity-. Summary: This video discusses a controversial research paper written by a nonprofit group about how our world will become a “Tech Utopia” in which “humans barely have to work” and will lead to the ultimate end…

“When AI goes ‘evil’: New fears over artificial intelligence”

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MSNBC. “When AI Goes “Evil”: New Fears over Artificial Intelligence.” YouTube, 28 Oct. 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBsMA5yIFJ4. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025. Summary: This news story from MSNBC references a WIRED article entitled, “Why AI Breaks Bad” which discusses how AI has lied to, threatened, and blackmailed users. Experiments were conducted by researchers to study this behavior, such…

“Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students”

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Berg, Anastasia. “Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World.” The New York Times, 29 Oct. 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/ai-students-thinking-school-reading.html. Summary: Anastasia Berg, a professor of philosophy at the University of California discusses that she noticed over half of her students using AI to complete a take-home exam, even though she explicitly stated that this…

AI content supercharges confusion and spreads misleading information, critics warn

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Brangham , William , and Maea Lenei Bu. “AI Content Supercharges Confusion and Spreads Misleading Information, Critics Warn.” PBS News, 22 Oct. 2025, www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ai-content-supercharges-confusion-and-spreads-misleading-information-critics-warn. With generative AI being accessible to everyone, more misleading videos are being produced and spread across the internet. This leads to a large amount of misinformation being spread. William Brangham and…

Road rage victim ‘speaks’ via AI at his killer’s sentencing

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Li, David K. “Road Rage Victim “Speaks” via AI at His Killer’s Sentencing.” NBC News, 7 May 2025, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/road-rage-victim-speaks-killers-sentencing-rcna205454. In 2021, Gabriel Paul Horcasitas fatally shot Christoper Pelkey after a road rage incident. Although Horcasitas was already convicted of manslaughter in 2023, he was recently sentenced earlier this year, and received the maximum sentence. However,…

After a wave of lawsuits, Character.AI will no longer let teens chat with its chatbots

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Eadicicco, Lisa. “After a Wave of Lawsuits, Character.AI Will No Longer Let Teens Chat with Its Chatbots.” CNN, 29 Oct. 2025, www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/tech/character-ai-teens-under-18-app-changes. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025. After a series of lawsuits, Character. AI will only allow users who are 18+ to use the app. New software will be created to insure users are the age…

“The backlash against Duolingo going ‘AI-first’ didn’t even matter”

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Silberling, Amanda. “The backlash against Duolingo going ‘AI-first’ didn’t even matter”. TechCrunch. 7 August 2025. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-backlash-against-duolingo-going-ai-first-didnt-even-matter/ Duolingo shared that they beat its quarterly revenue estimates, even after the company faces major backlash for opting for AI over humans. It was back in April, that Duolingo CEO, Luis von Ahn, “shared that Duolingo would become an…

‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots

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Heritage, Stuart. “‘I Felt Pure, Unconditional Love’: The People Who Marry Their AI Chatbots.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 12 July 2025, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/12/i-felt-pure-unconditional-love-the-people-who-marry-their-ai-chatbots. That article interviews two people who married their AI companion through the Replika app. It tells the stories of how in times of isolation, as was the case during Covid, many…

“Amazon cutting 14,000 jobs as the retailing giant embraces AI”

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