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 Says AI Did Not Choose the Workers. The Accountability Question Moves One Step Back.
Meta has now given a sworn account of how it selected workers for its May 2026 layoffs. The company says AI played no part. That answer matters. It also shows why accountability cannot stop with the final person who applies a rule.
Your Employer Introduced AI. Did Anyone Tell You What It Would Do to You?
Across workplaces in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia, artificial intelligence is moving beyond assistance. It is helping assign work, monitor performance, evaluate workers and shape decisions about employment. The systems differ. The central question does not: what does their introduction do to the people expected to work with them?
The School Shared a Memory. AI Shared Something Else.
A school photo may begin as a record of belonging. Once it is public, the school may no longer control who copies it, what is learned from it or what it is made to depict.
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.
