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AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid,…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the…
If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?
These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on…
Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him
Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his…
Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand…
Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad
AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which…
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and…
Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers
The data center scramble feeding off the AI boom is no longer just raising utility…
Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing,…
Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the…
