AI & Society
Power grids, price tags, laws and lives — how AI deployment is reshaping communities and who pays for it.
The AI Backlash Is Getting Worse
AI adoption keeps climbing while public trust keeps falling. Here's the layoffs, lawsuits and power bills driving the backlash — and where it goes next.
The AI Backlash Just Got Very Public
Graduates booed AI-hype speakers and cheered Steve Wozniak this season — but the real story is economic anxiety, not just AI fear.
Can Love Be Real If It’s Artificial?
AI companions trigger real emotional responses in users, but the love is unidirectional. Here's what that means for loneliness, addiction, and dating.
AI Lies Are Finally Getting Punished
Courts in Germany and the U.S. are ruling AI hallucinations are legally actionable, ending the free pass AI companies gave themselves on accuracy.
AI Isn’t the Future. It’s History Repeating Itself
A tech exec got booed for comparing AI to the industrial revolution. History says he was right — and that should terrify you.
This Country Just Made AI Layoffs Illegal. It’s Working.
Chinese courts have reportedly ruled that AI adoption alone can't justify firing workers. Here's how that clashes with US mass layoffs.
“It’s Like We Don’t Exist”: 49,000 Residents Lose Power for Data Centers
NV Energy is redirecting power from 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents to feed data centers, exposing who the grid actually serves now.
They Call It Dynamic Pricing. It’s Surveillance Pricing
Grocery chains are reportedly using cameras and AI to price basic goods based on your face, not supply and demand. Here's how the system works.
The Generation That Grew Up With Algorithms Just Called Bullshit on AI
Nearly half of Gen Z workers admit sabotaging workplace AI. Here's the data behind the revolt — and why executives started it.
If AI Ran the Economy, Would You Still Be Poor?
An AI optimizing for well-being would target billionaires as a bottleneck — but Scandinavia already proves you don't need one to fix poverty.
I Have a PhD in Computer Science. Here’s Why I Hate AI
A CS PhD explains why AI backlash isn't about the science — it's about coercive rollout, stagnant wages, and zero accountability.
What Happens When AI Runs the Country?
AI governance could end bribery and gridlock, but it can't feel empathy or accept blame. Here's the real tradeoff between efficient and human rule.
Why AI Would Delete Royal Families, and What It Would Build Instead
A thought experiment: how a pure optimizer would score hereditary monarchy as a bug, and the meritocratic council it would ship instead.