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Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh
The essay argues that widespread reliance on the same handful of large language models is producing intellectual homogenization inside companies…
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The End Of Upward Mobility
Economists Branko Milanovic and Nils Gilman argue that AI will destabilize the small class of Americans who earn high salaries…
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Rural health: Is AI use transformative or just a pricey false hope?
STAT’s ‘Unraveled’ investigative series examines Trump administration officials’ promotion of AI as a fix for struggling rural health systems, including…
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How ‘Effective Altruism’ went from fringe philosophy to Trump’s AI villain
The article traces how the Trump administration has launched coordinated political and culture-war attacks on the effective altruism (EA) movement,…
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Why AI Is Speeding Up Scientific Research but Not Lab Experiments
Reporting on a new Google, Google DeepMind and MIT FutureTech study of 637 scientists, the piece finds that AI is…
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Economist Alex Tabarrok Argues Anthropic’s AI Safety Push Is Not Regulatory Capture
Economist Alex Tabarrok argues that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls for AI safety regulation do not amount to regulatory capture,…
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Dambisa Moyo Questions Whether AI Spending Is Crowding Out Other Investment
Economist Dambisa Moyo examines whether the AI investment boom is crowding out capital available to other sectors of the economy.…
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AI Safety Donors Paid Religious NGOs $3.3M for Statements on AI
Effort’s investigation found that the Future of Life Institute and other AI-safety donors distributed $3.3 million since 2025 to religious…
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The Hidden Costs of Monitoring Employees with AI
Guido Friebel, a professor of human resources at Goethe University, argues that AI is making employee monitoring dramatically cheaper, more…
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Israel takes its war on Palestine into the AI age
Said Arikat reports that an Israeli-funded operation called the Hanover Institute produced more than 560,000 words across 124 fake academic-style…
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AI Is Already Killing People—And Governments Are to Blame
Matthew Petti argues that the real near-term danger from military AI is not a sentient machine going rogue but governments…
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A Labor Day Prescription for Preserving Fair Employment in the Digital Age
Charlotte A. Burrows, former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, argues that AI hiring tools can reject qualified…