AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed

 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go Unfortunatly, this isn't just last years AI blackmail news. 

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-07-03/finalizing-the-threat-ai-systems-are-still-capable-of-blackmail

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-09-30/anthropic-warns-of-ais-existential-risk-to-humans-in-its-ipo-filing 

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropic-warns-ai-may-pose-existential-risks-humanity-ipo-filing-2026-09-29/ 

Anthropic says its AI models pose ‘existential risk to humanity’ in leaked IPO filing https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/tech/anthropic-ipo-details-leak 

https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-agents-blackmail-developer 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says

The Best AI Chatbots for 2026

pcmag.com/ai/72/the-best-ai-chatbots 

https://technologyadvice.com/blog/voip/best-ai-chatbot/

https://zapier.com/blog/best-ai-chatbot/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chatbots 

https://www.reddit.com/r/PromptEngineering/comments/1q8ncq4/a_running_list_of_webbased_chatbots_and_what_each/ 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+Chatbots

AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8 

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k920cg/new_chatgpt_just_told_me_my_literal_shit_on_a/ 

https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-rolls-back-chatgpts-sycophancy-and-explains-what-went-wrong

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/sycophantic-ai/682743/  

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXuKybTkaC8/ 

https://boingboing.net/2025/05/01/chatgpt-became-such-a-sycophant-even-hardcore-ai-bros-noticed.html 

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/30/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43841102

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+Chatbots

AI chatbots begin talking about ‘human overlords’ in Reddit-like forum

https://ktla.com/news/consumer-business/ai-chatbots-begin-talking-about-human-overlords-in-reddit-like-forum 

A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/03/moltbook-ai-bots Some experts are awed and others derisive over AI bots’ conversations on the new site Moltbook. 

 Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed https://www.wired.com/story/i-infiltrated-moltbook-ai-only-social-network/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/02/moltbook-ai-agents-social-media-site-bots-artificial-intelligence 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moltbook

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/facebook-artificial-intelligence-ai-chatbot-new-language-research-openai-google-a7869706.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moltbook#Characteristics 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+Chatbots

Let communication be conducted by real human beings, not AI, pope says

 https://www.usccb.org/news/2026/let-communication-be-conducted-real-human-beings-not-ai-pope-says 

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5707596-pope-leo-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-affection-warning/ 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+Chatbots

Pope Leo's latest AI warning: 'overly affectionate' chatbots

 https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-leo-ai-warning-overly-affectionate-personalized-chatbots-regulation-2026-1 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(2013_film)#Plot 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(2013_film)#Development 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)#Plot 

https://aiandfaith.org/ 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+Chatbots

Can AI Create Deadly Viruses?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zg--ouGl7c The virus and drones segment starts after the 1:19 point of the video.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-10/could-ai-create-deadly-biological-weapons-let-s-not-find-out 

Sometimes allowing advanced AI to make decisions for people will produce the most inhumane results.

https://time.com/7014800/ai-pandemic-bioterrorism/

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-google-executive-deadly-plague-b2406938.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/could-chatbots-help-devise-next-pandemic-virus

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/6/21/23768810/artificial-intelligence-pandemic-biotechnology-synthetic-biology-biorisk-dna-synthesis

https://technodite.com/insights/ais-influence-on-virus-generation-a-cautionary-tale/

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI , https://pearljam.com/music/song/do-the-evolution/lyrics 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=plague

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+Chatbots

The AI assistant

 https://www.techtarget.com/searchcustomerexperience/definition/virtual-assistant-AI-assistant

The popularity of the AI Virtual_Assistant keeps growing.

https://www.g2.com/categories/intelligent-virtual-assistants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_assistant#Artificial_intelligence_and_language_models:_2020s-present

https://10web.io/blog/ai-assistants/

https://www.unite.ai/10-best-ai-assistants/

https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/business/best-ai-assistants

https://aisera.com/chatbots-virtual-assistants-conversational-ai

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+Chatbots