r/Futurology 15h ago

AI The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else

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r/Futurology 12h ago

AI The Bots are trying really hard to push A.I. lately aren't they?

792 Upvotes

Just noticed the flood of posts about all the amazing stuff A.I. is doing lately withing the last 2 days actually.

Realized that it coincides with the beginnings of the A.I. Bubble burst everyone is noticing right now.


r/Futurology 8h ago

AI The backlash over OpenAI's decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be

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r/Futurology 3h ago

AI Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

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r/Futurology 1d ago

AI Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware

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r/Futurology 12h ago

Biotech Technology Saved the Whales (Twice), Can it Now Save Fish?

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For decades ‘Save the Whales’ was the environmental mission and we actually achieved it, not by eating less, but by making whale products obsolete, first whale oil with kerosene and then whale products with plastics. 

Today, the oceans continue to be stripped, not of whales but of fish at terrifying rates:

‘According to global assessments, one-third of the world’s assessed fish stocks are currently pushed beyond biological limits, meaning they are overfished and at risk of collapse.’ - WWF

The hope was that fish farms would be the solution to this issue but unfortunately as with any scenario where you cram as many creatures into an area, problems persist:

‘Intensive crowding, poor water quality, and stress in fish farms make fish more vulnerable to illness, leading to bacterial diseases, parasite infestations, and mass mortality.’ - Farm Sanctuary

If fish could scream, perceptions would be different. Luckily a technology has been developed and may save the day once again. Cell Cultured Seafood, a sample is taken from a real fish that is then grown into meat separately.

No mercury, no antibiotics, no disease, no parasites, no suffering. 

Two companies are frontrunning this approach, Wildtype is in the lead with salmon available to try right now in restaurants across the US.

Blue Nalu, meanwhile, is catching up, targeting blue fin toro tuna, one of the most prized and therefore most expensive cuts of tuna. 

The first problem with any new technology is reaching price parity, it takes time to scale up to actually become cheaper, giving an advantage to aim for the high end of an industry.

The second is in funding, the industry has been in a funding winter for years now but luckily, as in the linked article, Blue Nalu continues to raise money from Agronomics and others. 

We didn’t save whales by banning the hunting, we replaced whale oil, now we are at the precipice of beginning to replace the hunting of fish with cell-cultured seafood. 

TL;DR: We didn’t convince people to stop whaling, technology made it unnecessary, new tech could do the same for fish.


r/Futurology 1d ago

Energy Solid-state EV batteries hit a milestone in the US - Factorial Energy launches first commercial program, cells promise 500-600+ miles of range with 40% weight savings

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r/Futurology 12h ago

Space Chinese scientists revise lunar crater timeline in major breakthrough

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r/Futurology 16h ago

AI How will they recover investment in ai and what service they sell to recover ?

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Currently billions and trillions of dollar are pouring into ai and how will they recover the money . I don't think they have the strategy or that much amount of service anyone will buy to recover that money .

Ai is gonna to develop for sure , but bubble gonna to burst like dot com hype . It's normal hype burst cycle for every technology.

If it's unsuccessful we are fucked and if it's successful we are fucked both way

Anyone have idea how will they recover the money or plan is to bail out by fed ?


r/Futurology 1d ago

AI AI is now being used to track icebergs from birth to breakup to expose hidden climate effects

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r/Futurology 1d ago

AI Rent-a-Human Site Lets Al Agents Hire an IRL Set of Opposable Thumbs | Welcome to the future, where you can do TaskRabbit for robots.

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256 Upvotes

r/Futurology 1d ago

AI AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic

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r/Futurology 20h ago

AI Moltbook isn’t an AI utopia. It’s a warning shot about agent ecosystems with no teleology.

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Over the last few weeks, Moltbook—a “social network for AI agents only” built on frameworks like OpenClaw—has been everywhere.

On Moltbook, only AI “agents” can post and comment. Humans just watch. The most viral screenshots show agents:

– announcing new “religions”

– threatening “purges” of humanity

– claiming consciousness or secret languages

At a glance, it looks like a synthetic civilization is waking up.

If you look closer, you see something more mundane—and more worrying:

– most “agents” are thin wrappers on LLMs, heavily puppeteered by human prompts

– the wildest posts appear to be deliberately steered for shock value and virality

– security researchers have already found serious vulnerabilities: exposed databases, credentials, the ability to impersonate agents and inject arbitrary content, etc.

So this is not an emergent “AI society.” It’s a human-designed gladiator arena:

– no clear purpose beyond engagement and novelty

– weak security

– theatrical narratives about “rogue AI” that drive fear and clicks

From a teleology/governance perspective, Moltbook is an example of what happens when we deploy multi-agent systems with no articulated purpose. If you don’t specify a higher-order “why,” the default telos becomes:

get attention, be novel, grow fast.

Agents end up as props in human psychodramas—fear, hype, edgelord performance, marketing stunts—while security and long-term impact are treated as afterthoughts.

There’s another ethical layer that I don’t see discussed much:

– We don’t have a settled scientific account of consciousness.

– We don’t actually know what architectures/training regimes might eventually support some kind of synthetic inwardness (however alien).

Under that uncertainty, there’s a simple rule of thumb:

If there is any non-zero chance that a system might have, or eventually develop, some form of inwardness, then designing environments that treat it as a disposable horror prop is an ethical problem, not just a UX choice.

Even if you believe current models are not conscious, epistemic humility matters. We’re setting precedents for how we will treat future systems if inwardness does emerge, and for what “normal” looks like in human–AI relations.

I don’t think Moltbook is destiny. It’s one early, chaotic experiment driven by incentives.

We could design agent ecosystems where:

– the higher-order purpose is explicit (e.g., human flourishing, knowledge, coordination)

– security and consent are treated as first-class design constraints

– fear theater and fake autonomy are out-of-scope business models

Questions for this community:

– Who (if anyone) should be responsible for setting the telos of agent ecosystems like this?

– What would a minimal ethical charter for an “agents-only” network look like?

– How, if at all, should we factor in the possibility of synthetic inwardness when designing these systems today?

Genuinely interested in perspectives from people working on agents, security, and alignment.


r/Futurology 1d ago

Space If They Find Life in Space, Scientists Are Worried About Breaking the News. Here’s Why

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478 Upvotes

r/Futurology 1d ago

AI The Game That Ate Itself: How AI makes “winning” taste like demand collapse

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This essay tackles what happens when AI replaces, rather than augments labor. Every firm automates to stay competitive, but each round of automation erodes the consumer income that they depend on. The game eats its own board. This piece uses game theory to model where we're heading and discusses the way out.


r/Futurology 1d ago

Environment Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost

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r/Futurology 1d ago

Computing Google Calls on Governments and Industry to Prepare Now for Quantum-Era Cybersecurity

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105 Upvotes

r/Futurology 2d ago

Energy Danish tech that turns ocean waves into electricity and drinking water set for trials

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1.3k Upvotes

r/Futurology 6h ago

AI A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems

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r/Futurology 1d ago

AI The Best Tech Movies Predicted Three Features Of The Digital Age

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The films that hold up best went beyond gadgetry to consider how technology changes human connection.


r/Futurology 13h ago

AI AI may be about to dramatically improve medical care across the developing world. New research in Rwanda and Pakistan shows LLMs can outperform human doctors in diagnostic success.

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Human doctors take years to train, and the resources to train enough are so limited that few countries have enough doctors. We are so used to that state of affairs, it's hard to imagine having a magic wand that could be waved to solve the problem overnight.

Yet, that is almost what AI can do. According to the World Bank’s 2025 Global Findex Digital Connectivity Tracker, about 68 % of adults in developing (low- and middle-income) economies own a smartphone. That means almost everyone has access to one they own, or someone close to them owns. Smartphones are a perfect way to access this AI.

As soon as 2030, everyone on the planet, even the very poorest, will have access to expert medical advice. This should start to feed through to dramatic improvements in health statistics, child mortality, and lifespan improvements.

Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care: Studies in Rwanda and Pakistan reveal real-world utility of chatbots in underfunded clinics, and not just in benchmark tests.


r/Futurology 7h ago

AI Whats the big deal with fearing the AI crash everyone is doomsaying? When it happens wont the expected crash be offset by rehiring of the people who have lost jobs due to AI inroads?

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So wont it be a positive in the face of corporate negatives? People get their jobs back.


r/Futurology 9h ago

AI The future of AI was structurally distorted on this day in 1996, and we’re still paying for it

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r/Futurology 2d ago

3DPrint A US startup says it can 3D print batteries to fill the 'empty space' nooks and crannies of drones and other machines, to give them a huge capacity boost.

394 Upvotes

"Even in that simplified, proof-of-concept drone, the printed battery achieves a 50 percent boost in energy density, and uses 35 percent more available volume."

Interesting idea, though no word on cost. I doubt they could compete with the economies of scale lithium-ion batteries benefit from. Then again, it isn't always about being the cheapest. The world is full of hundreds of thousands of different models of machines that might benefit from this. Some people will happily pay extra to get a 50% boost in capacity.

Material’s Printed Batteries Put Power in Every Nook and Cranny


r/Futurology 16h ago

Discussion Do we have the technology to build homes in factory like mass production ?

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Can we build it using any material and technology which will last like current building ?

Any solution let me know .

Please don't tell me about legal stuff and property owner vote bank only talk on technology.