1. AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
Many families have been deeply disturbed by hyper-realistic AI-generated videos from OpenAI’s new Sora 2 tool that “resurrect” public figures without consent, exposing the legal and moral vacuum around post-mortem image rights and the collision of technological possibility with human dignity.
“Despite OpenAI’s policy to limit real-person likenesses to those who opt in, historical figures fall into a gray area—leaving legacies vulnerable to grotesque parodies.” (washingtonpost.com)
2. Orchestrating Human-AI Teams: The Manager Agent as a Unifying Research Challenge
This arXiv paper outlines a visionary roadmap for autonomous “manager” agents that decompose complex goals, allocate tasks across human and AI collaborators, and adapt dynamically—formalizing workflow orchestration as a Partially Observable Stochastic Game and releasing MA-Gym to benchmark progress.
“Current Manager Agents struggle to jointly optimize for goal completion, constraint adherence, and runtime—underscoring orchestration as AI’s next frontier.” (arxiv.org)
3. At every turn, the design of our environments either creates barriers or opens doors. Let’s design a more humane world
Anna Leahy’s 4,100-word Aeon essay reclaims universal design as a tool for true inclusion, tracing how accessibility evolved from ad-hoc adaptations to the ADA and advocating sensory-rich, bias-aware spaces that honor human diversity.
“‘There is no design-free world,’ writes Iris Bohnet—so every specification, from elevator buttons to digital interfaces, shapes who can participate.” (aeon.co)
4. Jony Ive says he’s juggling up to 20 ideas for OpenAI gadgets
In a Business Insider interview, the former Apple design luminary reveals his mission to craft AI-powered devices that feel emotionally intuitive rather than merely functional, critiquing the “anxiety-inducing” nature of current smartphones and hinting at screenless, sensor-driven experiences.
“I’m striving for products that ‘make us happy,’ not just more productive,” he explains of his LoveFrom-OpenAI venture. (businessinsider.com)
5. Can AI design a typeface?
Transform magazine’s October feature dissects Monotype’s 2025 Type Trends report, where senior creative director Charles Nix and editor Jack Cousins debate how machine learning both challenges and expands the typographer’s craft—from semantic font generation to preserving human nuance in letterforms.
“AI can suggest novel serifs and weight contrasts, but the soul of a typeface still emerges from a designer’s intentional restraint.” (transformmagazine.net)