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Is AI pushing us closer to nuclear disaster?
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (380+ words) Mother Jones is powered by readers who care about the future of our democracy. If that's you, we need your help'this week especially. It's our spring membership drive, and our goal is 1, 000 new donations to fund the urgent investigations already…...
The actual economic Impact of data centers on a place? That's a secret.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (707+ words) Tax breaks for data centers in North Carolina keep as much as $57 million each year out of state and local government coffers, state figures show, an amount that could balloon to billions of dollars if all the proposed projects are…...
Zuckerberg didn't think he was robotic enough already, so now he's using AI
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (397+ words) Mother Jones is powered by readers who care about the future of our democracy. If that's you, we need your help'this week especially. It's our spring membership drive, and our goal is 1, 000 new donations to fund the urgent investigations already…...
After the attack on Sam Altman's home, will AI CEO's go on the offensive?
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (345+ words) Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, takes his seat before a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Sam Altman suggested…...
The chilling role of Chat GPT in mass shootings and other violence
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (1217+ words) Mother Jones illustration; Getty Mark Follman3 minutes ago "I've seen several cases where the chatbot component is pretty incredible," one top threat assessment source with psychiatric expertise told me, describing evidence from confidential investigations. "We're finding that more people may be…...
Sam Altman's really weird week just got even worse
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (527+ words) Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive officer, Open AI, listens to testimony during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington. Kevin Wolf/AP Sam Altman, who published "ambitious ideas" to add guardrails to AI…...
Sam Altman is having a really weird week
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (629+ words) Open AI's CEO Sam Altman speaks at the AI Summit in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. AP Sam Altman wants you to know that he's just fine. Sure, his company, Open AI, is reportedly building technology that it fears'and some…...
How your data is powering Trump's surveillance state
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (607+ words) If somebody'a police officer, a prosecutor, an FBI agent'were to get ahold of all this data, they'd be able to sketch out a pretty complete picture of my daily life. In most cases, I probably wouldn't even know that my…...
How chatbot ads distort reality
1+ week, 1+ day ago (88+ words) The sheer cognitive dissonance'hearing a song so deeply human, so personal and reflective, used to advertise a chatbot'was unsettling. What was it doing in a commercial for a technology that I fear is only good for alienating us from ourselves?...
In Indian Country, Data Centers Come With a Familiar Threat of Colonialism. These Organizers Are Fighting Back.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (269+ words) The data center boom feels like yet another example of developers treating Native lands as an unlimited commodity for exploitation. "We should always oppose colonization. We shouldn't back down." Seeing this fight play out on so many fronts could be…...