{
  "id": 4974,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03512v1",
  "title": "Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks",
  "summary": "The scope of AI safety and alignment work in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has so far mostly been limited to harms related to: (a) discrimination and hate speech, (b) harmful/inappropriate (violent, sexual, illegal) content, (c) information hazards, and (d) use cases related to malicious actors, such as cybersecurity, child abuse, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats. The public conversation around AI, on the other hand, has also been focusing on threats to ou",
  "authors": "Ilias Chalkidis, Anders Søgaard",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,safety-alignment,children-education,biotech",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-05T08:49:51.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:26.333Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4974",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03512v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}