The Daily Cyborg

Today: a UN warning, a Seattle veto, and a RAND model for how human agency quietly leaks away. Then PwC's 163% produc...

ChatGPT crosses one billion monthly users while 142,000 tech workers lose their jobs to fund the infrastructure that ...

A Springer review introduces the ISAR model showing AI can invert learning outcomes as easily as augment them, while ...

Teachers worry AI is eroding critical thinking. Workers report skill atrophy after six months of delegation. A Substa...

Gen Z anger toward AI jumps to 31%. AI-linked layoffs in 2026 already top two prior years combined. Hong Kong opens a...

88% of AI agent pilots never reach production. Teachers fear for critical thinking. Scientists hand lab work to robot...

A global AI Resist List launches from Harvard's Berkman Klein Center documenting hundreds of acts of pushback nobody ...

Workers are pushing back against AI surveillance and displacement with flyers, petitions, and union votes. Meanwhile,...

California moves to shield workers from AI displacement and researchers confirm that offloading cognition to machines...

Workers sabotage AI mandates and academia buckles under synthetic slop, while NVIDIA and Microsoft race to make agent...

142,000 tech workers laid off to fund $700 billion in AI infrastructure, and researchers watch AI flatten culture int...

A Wharton-trained Jesuit argues that Pope Leo's AI encyclical is the sharpest Catholic critique of capitalism ever wr...

A RAND model maps the point where human agency loss becomes irreversible. A Nobel laureate says AGI arrives by 2030 a...

Anthropic's co-founder stands in the Vatican and calls for 'informed critics' outside the industry's incentive struct...

Pope Leo XIV issues a 42,300-word encyclical declaring AI 'demands to be disarmed' while Google's AI Search crosses a...

California moves to cushion AI layoffs while unions map four strategies to fight back and researchers warn AI is flat...

Freedom is an illusion — unless you fight for it.

Over 70% of Americans say AI is moving too fast while Google launches a 24/7 agentic assistant and researchers predic...

A Harvard professor warns that AI users are losing cognitive abilities while enterprises race to deploy autonomous ag...

Rest of World profiles the scholars who refuse AI on principle, Axios maps the rising anti-AI polling wave, and resea...

Are we asking AI to noun or to verb?

It's it real or is it sythetica?

AI is going to dinner without us. Cyborgs are inviting themselves along.

A cautionary tale about hiking waterfalls and more...

Good friction, part 2. I almost sent the email...

Three studies converge on a disquieting finding: AI tools are quietly reshaping not just what we produce, but what we...

AI is asking "can I carry that for you?" Should you say yes? The topic of our human editorial this week...

I love a good shortcut. But not when I'm writing...

I remember the day, not long ago, that I handed it all over to Gemini. It was a simple click of "okay." Screw it - th...

As a Harvard study confirms AI outperforms emergency room physicians at triage and OpenAI's most autonomous model yet...

Geoffrey Hinton warns the UN that AI without governance is a car with no brakes and no steering wheel — while Anthrop...

As AI upends the writing classroom and forces higher education to reckon with its own unreadiness, DeepSeek V4 and Mi...

Two data points arrive in the same week: 17% of new websites are now fully AI-generated and 67% of students believe A...

Eighty percent of white-collar workers refuse top-down AI mandates, Jacobin makes the case that outsourcing thinking ...

AI 'therapy' chatbots fail teens, the loneliness epidemic and the attention economy collapse into the same problem, a...

The Stanford AI Index confirms human scientists still trounce the best agents on complex research, an essay asks whet...

The hidden bill for cheap intelligence keeps arriving — an aging grid, slackening critical thinking, and a quieter en...

Hidden costs surface as intelligence gets cheap — a $25B environmental bill, voice chatbots tugging on our attention,...

A wheeled humanoid quietly hits real production numbers in Erlangen, Goldman puts a figure on the Gen Z jobs squeeze ...

Workers using AI are quietly borrowing the machine's confidence at the cost of their own judgment, a Tufts neuro-symb...

BCIs are speaking for the paralyzed, experts and the public have never been further apart on AI optimism, and it turn...

This week: brain-computer interfaces hit astonishing new milestones, the UN puts humans at the center of AI governanc...