AI for good, AI for bad: the log
Every AI news story we've sorted, newest first. 6 good, 21 bad so far.
- ‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws
The Guardian · 28 Oct 2026 · regulating AI for safety - ‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity
The Guardian · 28 Oct 2026 · AI has positive potential - Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither | Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks
The Guardian · 28 Oct 2026 · AI threatens humanity - ‘Elonville’: US residents say Musk’s xAI offered to buy homes if they don’t sue over datacenter noise
The Guardian · 28 Oct 2026 · buying homes to silence complaints - AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban
The Guardian · 27 Oct 2026 · AI bots generated fake responses - ‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims
The Guardian · 27 Oct 2026 · secret AI surveillance - Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll
The Guardian · 27 Oct 2026 · economic losses - AI-driven disinformation running rampant on social media before US midterms, experts warn
The Guardian · 27 Oct 2026 · AI-driven disinformation - Microsoft to reportedly offer buyouts to 60,000 employees in latest cuts
The Guardian · 26 Oct 2026 · job losses - ‘Autonomy, not flesh’: RAF chief outlines AI drone-powered future
The Guardian · 26 Oct 2026 · warfare - In a rush to lure AI companies, the Australian government risks undoing a creative ecosystem that has taken decades to build | Dan Guthrie
The Guardian · 26 Oct 2026 · IP theft - 'Dear ChatGPT': 12-year-old wins top youth prize at Australian Poetry Slam – video
The Guardian · 26 Oct 2026 · inspiring poetry - Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US
The Guardian · 26 Oct 2026 · unauthorised data access - Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns
The Guardian · 26 Oct 2026 · AI-enabled attackers - Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models
The Guardian · 25 Oct 2026 · infringed on rights - Recent labor market data show some signs of AI-related hiring headwinds - Yahoo Finance Australia
Google News · 25 Oct 2026 · hiring headwinds - Voters call for local AI safeguards as data centre concern rises - SMH.com.au
Google News · 25 Oct 2026 · data concern - the tools helping us stay ahead of AI deepfakes - Kids News
Google News · 25 Oct 2026 · staying ahead - Voters call for local AI safeguards as data centre concern rises - The Age
Google News · 25 Oct 2026 · data concern - NAB must come clean on the role of AI in its job losses - AFR
Google News · 25 Oct 2026 · job losses - Why AI could be costing students exam marks - The Educator
Google News · 25 Oct 2026 · costing exam marks - Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?
The Guardian · 23 Oct 2026 · mass AI unemployment - ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
The Guardian · 23 Oct 2026 · AI-enabled hacking - John Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s security
The Guardian · 24 Oct 2026 · bolsters Britain's security - Opposition deepfake video of Spanish PM’s wife sparks outrage before election
The Guardian · 24 Oct 2026 · deepfake sparks outrage - Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom
The Guardian · 24 Oct 2026 · proves authenticity - The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle
The Guardian · 24 Oct 2026 · AI harms residents
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