Artificial Intelligence

Jan. 23, 2026 Articles

The previous week’s articles are featured below.


What the Numbers Show About AI’s Harms

By Harry Booth, TIME

With the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence around the world over the past year, the technology’s potential to cause harm has become clearer.

Reports of AI-related incidents rose 50% year-over-year from 2022 to 2024, and in the 10 months to October 2025, incidents had already surpassed the 2024 total, according to the AI Incident Database, a crowd-sourced repository of media reports on AI mishaps. Incidents arising from use of the technology, such as deepfake-enabled scams and chatbot-induced delusions have been rising steadily, according to the latest data..

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‘Show Me the Money’ Time for AI As Political Risks Loom

By Yasmin Khorram, Politico

It’s put up or shut up time for the artificial intelligence boom.

For investors, 2026 will test whether the industry’s massive bets on AI deliver real financial results, not just momentum. And the outcome also comes with political risk…

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Critical Moment: The AI Imperative for Credit Unions

PYMNTS.com

As AI enters banking’s mainstream, credit unions face a defining choice: Meet member demand with trusted, human-centered AI—or risk falling behind.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved quickly from novelty to necessity across financial services, and credit unions (CUs) are no exception. More than half of consumers already use AI for financial planning and budgeting, and four in 10 say they would feel comfortable using it to complete transactions—trends that are most pronounced among younger generations…

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