Archive for August 2025

What exactly are Schumer, Jeffries, et al. afraid of? If they won’t get behind Mamdani, progressives should make them pay a future price.

Experiences like this might not be uncommon. A growing number of reports in the media have emerged of individuals spiraling into AI-fueled episodes of “psychotic thinking.” Researchers at King’s College London and their colleagues recently examined 17 of these reported cases to understand what it is about large language model (LLM) designs that drives this behavior.

Carol Branget, executive director at the Sexual Assault Crisis Centre (left), and Sylvie Guenther, executive director of Hiatus House, launch Hub Without Walls, a new response to gender-based violence

Over five years, we sought out and got to know people on the cusp of becoming conspiracy theorists. And the results of our new study show that a sense of community activism is attracting people to these ideas…. When conspiracy theories claim to explain painful personal circumstances or wider fears over COVID-19, or climate change, people can experience “awakenings”. These are moments of insight during which people come to believe that the causes of their problems lie with secretive groups which control society.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents voted Thursday to disband the system’s long-standing faculty senates in compliance with Senate Bill 37, the sweeping Texas higher education law that gives university boards and presidents control over faculty governing bodies.