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Many Americans are turning to AI for spiritual guidance. Andrey Suslov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader

AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes a scholar of religion.
Research shows that AI chatbots engage in deliberate emotional manipulation strategies, such as appealing to guilt, fear of missing out and a human tendency to follow the herd. (Unsplash+)

Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions?

Companies like Meta and IBM are exploring explore how AI can hyper-personalize ads, drawing from our chat histories, playing to our unique fears and vanities.
Police officers smile after finding a toddler who had been reported missing for four days. An AI tool reporting on the mother’s child abandonment court appearance in September erroneously claimed she had abandoned her child “to go on vacation.” Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette

I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous

When we ask for news, we should expect generative AI tools to stick to the facts. But new research shows they don’t.
As the Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun appears to move through the ancient constellations of the zodiac. Tauʻolunga/Wikimedia Commons

Why your zodiac sign is probably wrong

Astronomy and astrology do not agree on the dates of the zodiac constellations.

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