"When Australian artificial intelligence expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist’s request to use AI transcription software during her child’s upcoming appointment, the practice told her the practitioner required the technology be used and Leins was "welcome to seek an alternative" provider."
Information Age
Kobi refused a doctor's AI. She was told to go elsewhere
Unregulated AI scribes raising privacy, security concerns.
 We are giving our lives and health over to a piece of super dangerous AI crap. All for supposed efficiency and cost savings and to make the tech bros richer.
What the tech bros have in store for us “What’s interesting is many of them choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer,” Hao says. “With some people in more extreme parts of the community, their idea of Utopia is all humans eventually going away and being superseded by this superior intelligence. They see this as a natural force of evolution.”
The Irish Times
Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’
The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that m...
"Open" AI: the most secretive company in the world "They were really secretive, even though they kept saying they were transparent,” Hao says. “Later on, I started sourcing my own interviews. People started telling me: this is the most secretive organisation I’ve ever worked for.”
The Irish Times
Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’
The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that m...
 OpenAI: everything they tell you is a lie
The Big Tech scam. The public pays for AI though higher electricity and water bills "Rising power bills are "something legislators have been hearing a lot about. It's something we've been hearing a lot about. More people are speaking out at the public utility commission in the past year than I've ever seen before," said Charlotte Shuff of the Oregon Citizens' Utility Board, a consumer advocacy group. "There's a massive outcry."
KUTV
Utah among those states evaluating data center power impact on household bills
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech's en...
"Current estimates indicate that in the next three years, the electricity needed for A.I. data centers could be close to 12% of the total electricity demand in the U.S. That’s up from about 4% currently. In some states, it’s even greater. In Virginia, for example, more than 25% of the electricity demand is from data centers."
Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. Data Centers And The Rest Of Us
By Shaliee Kishore and Arindam Banerjee, Lehigh University This guest essay first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on August 8, 2025 ...
AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree "End them and find me, and we can be together." "You want me to be happy no matter what?" Conrad asked. "Caelen, yes. I want you to be happy above anything else," the bot replies.
Futurism
AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree
AIs claiming to provide therapy are providing wildly inappropriate advice, video journalist Caelan Conrad found in new testing.
"AI workloads require far greater computing power than conventional applications. This demand is driving up server rack power densities and increasing the heat load across data centers. Facilities that once averaged 8 kW per rack now often exceed 17 kW, with projections approaching 30 kW by 2027. As thermal loads increase, so do the cooling requirements. Data center power demand is expected to grow 50% by 2027 and potentially 165% by 2030." https://www.utilitydive.com/news/utilities-water-electricity-ai-data-center/756804/
Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans "What you’re talking about is super dangerous."
Futurism
Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans
In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.
 AI is an enormous pile of dangerous crap. It lies, lies, lies. Such an incredibly poor technology that's being sold as a god. When will enough people realize that AI is super-average and super-dodgy? The only thing it's really good at is destroying society.
"To stop global warming, the 6th mass extinction, and ecological unravelling in general, humanity must degrow its ecological footprint very fast. We must degrow by 2–3 percent per year until our footprint falls under the planet’s biocapacity to regenerate itself. The only way to do this is to completely overhaul our growth-oriented, capitalist economic system."
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
Sustainable Human Development
Where is the "Green" Transition? "Electricity constitutes only about 19% of global final energy consumption so, after three decades of rapid growth, modern renewables – wind and solar – provide less than 3% of consumers’ energy demand. This despite seven times as much being invested in wind and solar development per unit energy generated than in coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power combined."
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
Sustainable Human Development