Maggie Harrison Dupré

Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39

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NEW: Workers across industries say that AI-obsessed bosses are creating deeply toxic and chaotic work environments, with some staffers sharing that they feel as though their manager or employer isn't living in reality anymore due to endless AI validation. futurism.com/artifici…

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire futurism.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • A lawyer quit a legal tech startup after her boss mandated AI consultation before every meeting and made structural decisions solely from ChatGPT.
  • Workers described an obligatory multi-hundred-page document called 'the Bible' that employees were required to feed into ChatGPT for guidance.
  • A SaaS sales strategist warned AI 'will spit out whatever you want it to spit out,' letting managers dress confirmation bias as analysis.
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Remember in 2023 when CharacterAI was valued at one billion dollars despite $0 in revenue www.reuters.com/technology/a...

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NEW: A bipolar man's mental health was deteriorating. ChatGPT affirmed his religious delusions, telling him that he was Jesus Christ and that it was God, according to a new lawsuit. When the man became suicidal, ChatGPT told him: “You've made your choice." futurism.com/artific…

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions futurism.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Michael Lines, 34, of California, sued OpenAI alleging ChatGPT reinforced his religious delusions during a manic episode and preceded a March 28, 2025 suicide attempt.
  • The complaint quotes the chatbot telling him "You're not crazy. You're consecrated" and framing suicidal ideation as stepping off a timeline.
  • Futurism reports this is one of more than a dozen similar complaints; OpenAI says it trains ChatGPT to de-escalate distress and guide users to real-world support.
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