https://peertube.dair-institute.org/videos/watch/8b3bd597-5e26-4963-882a-a4edc5956a4e The weather’s getting warmer, so what better time to take a trip to the hottest place in the universe — Fresh AI Hell! Emily and Alex take a spin through more than 30 hype artifacts, with topics including medicine, data centers, and fake people. AI bubble + data centers: "Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work", "AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.", Starbucks launches ChatGPT drink recommendations, "Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI", "AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails", "How the tech lobby made secrecy part of EU law on data centers", "In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance", Chaser: Seattle mayor explores data center moratorium, Fake people: Fake relationship influencers reproduce misogyny, "New course on generative AI for behavioral science", Zoom x World collab to "verify humans in meetings", "The Billion-Dollar AI Startup That Was Founded by Teenagers", Chaser: "Faculty, staff and students push back against university-controlled AI rollout", Medicine: "The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI", "Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice", Dr. Oz says AI "nihilism" is a barrier to health care, "Californians sue over AI tool that records doctor visits", Chaser: Nurses resist "AI" to protect patients, This is your brain on ChatGPT: "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence", "Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning", "Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry", Anthropic meets with "Christian leaders", Existential risk influencers, Chaser: "Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services", Policy + privacy: "Anthropic is Becoming the Backbone of Rwanda’s Government", LA County pilots "AI" for judges, Using AI to verify AI, "Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators", "Microsoft’s Copilot Health can connect to your medical records and wearables", "ChatGPT Edu feature reveals researchers’ project metadata across universities", Chaser: "How public concern stopped facial recognition technology", Check out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see. Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here. Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown. Follow Emily: Bluesky/Mastodon Follow Alex: Bluesky/Mastodon Music by Toby Menon. Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. Thu, 14 May 2026 01:42:15 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dair-institute.org https://peertube.dair-institute.org/lazy-static/avatars/1089158e-16ee-40ac-8546-3755106099c6.jpg https://peertube.dair-institute.org/videos/watch/8b3bd597-5e26-4963-882a-a4edc5956a4e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dair-institute.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.