In 2024, a professor at a public university gave students a surprise quiz. The task? Identify which of five short passages were written...

In 2024, a clerk at the Department of Veterans Affairs logged into a new tool to process disability claims. What once took hours now...

In 2019, a woman in the UK received a clean mammogram result from her doctor. But when researchers later ran the same image through an AI...

In 1994, Forrest Gump showed a fictional version of history—Forrest shaking hands with JFK—using computer-generated imagery (CGI). No one...

In 2020, researchers in South Korea tested an autonomous drone that could track and strike targets without human input. The test shocked...

A Real Case: The Allegheny Family Screening Tool In Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a mother named Tamika was reported to child...

In 2021, IBM added an AI tool to help manage contracts. Instead of cutting jobs, the company hired more people. They needed workers to...

A small retail business owner named Laura in Texas recently adopted AI to streamline her inventory system. At first, she was hopeful that...

A Real-World Example In 2018, Cambridge Analytica accessed data from over 87 million Facebook users without their consent. The company...

Fake IT Worker Exposed In 2022, a U.S. company unknowingly hired a North Korean IT worker. The employee, using a stolen identity, worked...

In 2018, an American manufacturer of industrial robots saw its costs rise overnight. The Trump administration had imposed a 25% tariff on...

In 2020, the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) faced shortages of ventilators at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis. The government used an...

In 2020, a 60-year-old woman in Pennsylvania saw a flood of political ads on Facebook. Some painted one candidate as corrupt; others...

In 2023, a U.S. court ruled that AI-generated artwork could not receive copyright protection. The case involved Stephen Thaler, who...

A Real-World Example In 2024, an investigation revealed that AI-generated videos featuring fake news anchors were spreading pro-China...

Days before Slovakia’s 2023 election, a voter listens to a news clip. The voice sounds familiar—a leading candidate. The speaker makes...

In 2021, a U.S. senator asked a tech executive if his company could stop an algorithm from spreading misinformation by "turning it off."...

A Real-World Problem In 2020, a healthcare algorithm used in U.S. hospitals showed racial bias. The program helped decide which patients...

In 2023, an AI-generated intelligence report warned of an impending military strike in the South China Sea. The report, based on...

A Real Case: The AI Art Dispute In 2023, an artist named Kris Kashtanova used AI to create a comic book¹. The U.S. Copyright Office...