Black Box: The Chatbots | Spirals | Ep 1 – podcast

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:42:54 GMT

Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, or is leading them to a higher spiritual realm. The Guardian journalist Michael Safi begins investigating a phenomenon labelled ‘AI psychosis’, travelling to the US to meet two people who have been on weird journeys with their chatbots Continue reading...

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The same story across the political spectrum (15 sources)

Left: China’s demise was gleefully predicted by the west – meanwhile, it built an AI revolution | Larry Elliott — www.theguardian.com
Center: ‘Not perfectly aligned’ with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents — www.theguardian.com
Center: Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’ — www.theguardian.com
Center: AI’s Very Bad Morning: Claude, ChatGPT and Grok Had Outages at the Same Time — www.cnet.com
Center: Espionage, true crime and war: Baillie Gifford longlist revealed — www.theguardian.com

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