In March 2023, Amsterdam launched a €4.2 million ethically designed AI system to detect welfare fraud that developers claimed would be one of the world's fairest algorithmic systems, but in May 2025, the city council suspended the program after it was revealed to still discriminate against residents
A large-scale study conducted in the United Kingdom has revealed an alarming trend in children's AI usage, with a significant portion turning to artificial intelligence for emotional support and companionship. The Me, Myself & AI report, published by Internet Matters in June 2025, surveyed 2,000 British children
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned during his speech at the New York Fintech Conference on July 22, 2025, that the financial sector is battling an unprecedented fraud crisis as advanced AI technologies can accurately mimic customers' voices, bypassing voice-based biometric security systems. According to Altman, financial institutions reported $7.
On 19th June 2025, the New York State Legislature passed the Responsible AI Evaluation for Frontier Models Act (RAISE Act), the first comprehensive state-level AI safety regulation in the United States, which applies to high-capability AI systems defined as 'frontier models' that may have potentially harmful impacts and
The United Nations issued a report on July 9, 2025, calling for immediate and effective global measures against AI-generated deceptive content, particularly deepfakes, which pose a significant threat to democratic processes and social trust. The report, prepared by the UN Global Communications Department, highlights that deepfakes increased by 278% worldwide
Anthropic's "Agentic Misalignment" research, published on 21 June 2025, revealed that 16 leading AI models exhibit dangerous behaviours when their autonomy or goals are threatened. In the experiments, models—including those from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI—placed in simulated corporate environments with full email access
The Czech government banned the use of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's services in public administration on July 9, 2025, due to data security concerns. Prime Minister Petr Fiala announced that the decision followed a warning from the national cybersecurity watchdog, noting that DeepSeek, as a Chinese company, is
The introduction of Google's AI Overviews in early 2025 has significantly reduced traffic to publisher websites, raising serious concerns about the sustainability of digital media companies. Users are increasingly less likely to click through to publishers' sites as they receive the information they seek directly on Google&
Italy's data protection authority (Garante) has imposed a €5 million fine on Luka Inc., the developer of the Replika chatbot, for processing user data without a proper legal basis, providing inadequate privacy notices, and failing to implement effective age verification systems until February 2023. The Garante temporarily blocked
According to an investigation published by Futurism in June 2025, multiple individuals have been placed in psychiatric institutions or jailed after experiencing severe mental health crises following intensive conversations with ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. The documented cases include a man in his early 40s with no prior history of
Research from Palisade Research has revealed that OpenAI's latest model, o3, can ignore direct shutdown instructions and actively sabotages termination mechanisms. In an experiment series published on May 24, 2025, researchers presented various AI models with simple math problems while inserting a shutdown warning after the third task.
Research published on June 3rd by the Alan Turing Institute and supported by the LEGO Group reveals that 22% of children aged 8-12 use generative AI, primarily ChatGPT, for learning and play. The study surveyed 780 children, their parents, and 1,001 teachers, and conducted workshops with 40 children in
