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Looking back on a year of AI blunders
Few industries have escaped our hapless misuse of this troubling technology.
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Albania's AI-generated minister "Diella" insisting its role is to help people, not replace them, in Parliament in September.
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People rightly spend a lot of time worrying about whether AI will ever be smart enough to destroy us
This thought occurred as I surveyed a list I have been keeping of notable AI blunders in 2025 or, to be more precise, the humans brought low by using what we are told is today’s relatively basic artificial intelligence.

