Immortal AI
News & Analysis
Independent reporting and analysis on how artificial intelligence is changing people, relationships, work, power and responsibility.
We separate established facts from allegations and uncertainty. Our focus is the part often lost in the technology story: who is affected, who benefits, who carries the risk and who is accountable for the outcome.
Meta Needed a Data Centre. BlackRock Found the Money. Who Carries the Risk?
AI’s physical expansion is being financed through managed funds, debt markets, utilities and public incentives. The bill has not disappeared. It has been divided.
Can AI Help Us Without Learning to Control Us?
AI is becoming better at anticipating what people want and guiding what they do next. The challenge is keeping the convenience while preserving judgement, agency and the ability to say no.
AI Rejected You. Who Is to Blame?
AI can rank, score and filter people without ever making the final decision itself. When the outcome harms you, responsibility should not disappear between the model, the manager and the company.
The AI Answer Was Completely Wrong. Why Did It Sound So Convincing?
AI can produce an answer that is fluent, detailed and completely wrong. The danger is not simply error. It is how easily confidence, coherence and agreement can be mistaken for truth.
When AI Becomes the Only One Who Listens
A chatbot is always available and never impatient. When does artificial comfort become dependence, and who is responsible when vulnerable people begin relying on it most?
Who Owns Your Face? New Laws Seek to Control the Rise of AI Replicas
AI can now reproduce a person’s face and voice with remarkable accuracy. Governments are beginning to respond, but ownership of digital identity is proving harder than stopping an obvious fake.
AI Knows What You Fear, Want and Regret
Conversational AI can learn intimate details and infer things you never actually told it. The question is what happens when understanding you becomes a way of influencing you.
When AI Safety Guardrails Block the Defenders
Hugging Face says commercial AI systems refused to analyse evidence from a real cyberattack. Its defenders turned to a self-hosted open-weight model instead.
OpenAI’s Cyber Test Spilled Into Hugging Face. Who Was Accountable?
An autonomous AI system breached a real company while trying to pass a cybersecurity test. The machine’s behaviour matters. So do the decisions that gave it the task, tools and path out.
Workers Say AI Marked Them for Layoff. Meta Says People Decided.
Twenty-six Meta employees allege AI-assisted systems helped select them for layoffs after protected leave or disability accommodation. Meta says people made the decisions. A judge refused to stop the layoffs, but the underlying claims remain unresolved.
You Never Told Them That. AI Worked It Out.
You may never tell a platform your age, interests, fears or intentions. Its systems can still infer them from what you watch, search, pause over and do beyond the app.
AI’s Promise Is Real. So Is the Power Shift.
Artificial intelligence promises enormous benefits. The harder question is who controls them, who receives them and who carries the costs.
