#ethical-concerns

#ethical-concerns

Palmer Luckey's gaming company just dropped the M64, and honestly, I'm torn about the whole thing. The guy's built actual VR headsets that changed gaming, sure, but he's also neck-deep in military contracting through Anduril, which makes autonomous drones and surveillance tech for the Department of Defense. So when he teases a translucent purple Nintendo 64 clone on X with a note saying "no peeking until Christmas," I'm simultaneously hyped about the hardware and deeply uncomfortable about where my $200 might end up.

As I uploaded a 1940s photo of my grandpa Max and hit a few buttons in Google's Veo 3 video generator, I saw a familiar family photo transform from black and white to color. Then, my grandpa stepped out of the photo and walked confidently toward the camera, his army uniform perfectly pressed as his arms swung at the sides of his lanky frame. This is the kind of thing AI lets you do now-virtually bring back the dead.

King worked with engineers at PwC and OpenAI to customize teams of autonomous AI systems, called agents, for Fortune 500 companies. Normally, multinational companies contract thousands of people to modernize their backend software. Home Depot, for example, might enlist an army of consultants to update inventory or its SAP accounts-payable processes. Recently, though, AI agents have gotten pretty good at that kind of work.

No one - except maybe Sam Altman - loved Sora 2 as much as I did when it first launched. I spent so much time using it during the first few days that I was easily burning through my phone battery by 5 p.m. ( Tim Cook: Let's talk about that later.) And I was wasting huge chunks of my workday (To my editor: Let's not talk about that later) making silly videos of myself and my friends.

Three hostages kneel in front of a camera, their hands tied behind their backs and their heads covered with black plastic bags that obscure their faces. Looming behind them is a group of bearded, glowering militants, dressed in tunics and turbans, some holding assault rifles. "We have one message for America," the man standing in the middle says, with one hand resting on the shoulder of the kneeling figure in front of him, the other hand jabbing the air to emphasize his speech.

Earlier this week, Zelda Williams - daughter of Robin Williams - took to Instagram to ask fans of her father to stop sending her AI-generated videos of him. "[P}lease, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop," she wrote, according to the BBC. "It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want."

In many ways, OpenAI's bot said the right words to Sophia during her time of crisis, according to logs obtained by her mother.

The vulnerability that exists in human relationships allows for transformative therapy experiences.

The Trump Organization’s recent expansions in the Middle East highlight potential conflicts of interest during Trump's diplomatic visit to the region.