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Episode 6: AI Versus the People

Episode 6: AI Versus the People

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 In today's episode, we tackle AI in an admittedly existential way by asking ourselves, how does this technology affect our humanity? Follow Who Has Time for This? on social media for more:-Instagram: @whohastimeforthispodcast-Youtube: @whohastimeforthispodcast--------------------------------Sources:https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0AI Chatbot Pushed Teen to Kill Himself, a Lawsuit Against its Creator Allegeshttps://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbotsAI Is a Lot of Workhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/10/507Artificial Intelligence and the Black Hole of Capitalism: A More-than-Human Political Ethologyhttps://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropicBehind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbathhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd605e48q1voChatbot Encouraged Teen to Kill Parents Over Screentime Limithttps://youtu.be/zKCynxiV_8I?si=kOzRqZ4eCStn-9qnChat GPT is Becoming a Religionhttps://www.theverge.com/news/682737/china-shuts-down-ai-chatbots-exam-seasonChina shuts down AI tools during nationwide college examshttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11239631/Does using artificial intelligence assistance accelerate skill decay and hinder skill development without performers’ awareness?https://www.vice.com/en/article/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says/He would still be here. Man Dies by Suicide after talking with AI chatbot, Widow Sayshttps://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/the-hidden-risk-of-letting-ai-decide/The Hidden Risk of letting AI Decide- Losing the Skills to Choose for Ourselveshttps://www.popsci.com/health/ai-therapy-mental-health/Illinois’ ban on AI therapy won’t stop people from asking chatbots for helphttps://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-linked-eroding-critical-skills.htmlIncreased AI use linked to Eroding Critical Thinking Skillshttps://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/tech/eating-disorder-chatbot/index.htmlNational Eating Disorders Association takes its AI Chatbot Offline After Complaints of Harmful Advicehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/creatives-academics-rejecting-ai-at-home-work‘Nobody Wants a Robot to Read Them a Story!’ The Creatives and Acedemics Rejecting AI- at Work and at Homehttps://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-changes-nice-openai-overly-complimentary-model-tweak-supportive-personality-2025-4No more Mr. Nice Guy: Say goodbye to the sycophantic ChatGPThttps://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosisPeople are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed after Spiraling into “ChatGPT Psychosis”https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/People are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasieshttps://jacobin.com/2023/03/ai-artificial-intelligence-art-chatgpt-jobs-capitalismThe Problem with AI is the Problem with Capitalismhttps://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120576Rethinking of Marxist perspectives on big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and capitalist economic developmenthttps://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-methTherapy Chatbot Tells recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treathttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/26/uk-universities-warned-to-stress-test-assessments-as-92-of-students-use-aiUK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI
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