QFM112: Irresponsible AI Reading List - April 2026
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Five reminders that AI's failures are arriving on schedule. The NYT's What teens are doing with those role-playing chatbots reports on apps marketed to 13+ that now rival TikTok for engagement; a California jury just hit Meta and YouTube for $6M over addiction-by-design. iTunes takeover by fake AI singer Eddie Dalton tells the same story at lower stakes — eleven chart positions for an artist who isn't a person. How We Hacked BCG's Data Warehouse — 3.17 trillion rows, zero authentication — closes out an unhappy month for AI-era security.
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us. supplies the philosophical counterpoint: maybe the machines aren't the problem; maybe we are. And AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It is the prediction nobody wants to be right: when displacement gets named, it will get personal.
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