Jason Mendez/Getty Images for NETFLIX Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is no fan of AI. In fact, for his latest film, a reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel “Frankenstein,” he says he was inspired by the hubris of the tech sector. “My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity,” he told NPR in… Continue reading Guillermo del Toro on Using AI: “I’d Rather Die”
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AI Is Even Putting Animal Actors Out of Work
Getty / Futurism Artificial intelligence isn’t just coming for human actors’ jobs — even our favorite furry celebrities are struggling to find work in Hollywood. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, studios are starting to push AI and CGI hard to create animal performances in post-production, instead of bringing real animals to the set. One… Continue reading AI Is Even Putting Animal Actors Out of Work
Scientists Discover Remnants of Cataclysmically Destroyed Planet That Became Earth
Getty / Futurism Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all across its barren surface, and bubbling with potential. This molten phase didn’t last very long. When… Continue reading Scientists Discover Remnants of Cataclysmically Destroyed Planet That Became Earth
Meta Tells Employees Their Jobs Are Being Automated
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Gilbert Flores / Variety via Getty Images Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is well known for running some pretty high-stakes experiments with his companies. His latest, it seems, is to gut the tech giant of its human workers and replace them with AI. In an internal memo viewed by… Continue reading Meta Tells Employees Their Jobs Are Being Automated
Startup Raises $60 Million to Artificially Cool the Planet
Getty / Futurism A geoengineering startup Stardust Solutions has raised $60 million to lay the groundwork for tech that could be used to dim the Sun, Heatmap News reports. The concept behind geoengineering is as simple as it is controversial among scientists. By spraying aerosol particles into the Earth’s atmosphere from a plane or weather… Continue reading Startup Raises $60 Million to Artificially Cool the Planet
Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Forget your phone spying on you — maybe it’s your vacuum you should really be worried about. In a post on his blog Small World, the computer programmer and electronics enthusiast Harishankar Narayanan detailed a startling find he made about his $300 smart vacuum: it was… Continue reading Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House
The WWE Says It’ll Use AI to Write Storylines, in the Latest Case of Forcing AI Into Everybody’s Lives
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Sabitus / Craig Ambrosio / WWE via Getty Images Whether you’re a longtime fan or you couldn’t care less, it’s hard to deny how much skill — and blood — goes into professional wrestling. Though plot lines are scripted ahead of time and the impacts are staged,… Continue reading The WWE Says It’ll Use AI to Write Storylines, in the Latest Case of Forcing AI Into Everybody’s Lives
The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Slamming on the Brakes, Scientist Says
Jewitt and Luu 2025 In case you missed it, there’s a fascinating object from another part of the universe visiting our neck of the woods. Dubbed 3I-ATLAS — “three” as in the third known interstellar object from outside of our solar system — the bizarre entity has had the astronomical community in a quiet fervor… Continue reading The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Slamming on the Brakes, Scientist Says
An AI Mistook a Doritos Bag for a Gun and Called the Cops on a Teenager
Getty / Futurism An AI-powered gun detection system hooked up to a Baltimore County high school’s cameras mistook a bag of Doritos chips as a weapon — and called the cops on a 16-year-old student. As local news station WBAL-TV 11 News reports, Taki Allen was enjoying the snack while sitting outside of Kenwood High… Continue reading An AI Mistook a Doritos Bag for a Gun and Called the Cops on a Teenager
Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones
Amazon is spending copious amounts of money looking for ways to automate labor currently done by human workers. The company is hoping to replace more than half a million jobs with robots by 2033, as the New York Times reported this week (the company is currently the United States’ second-largest employer after Walmart.) And in… Continue reading Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones