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Book Publishers Face Mounting Questions Over Authors’ Use of AI
The Christian Science Monitor reports that book publishing is facing a reckoning over undisclosed AI use, citing the withdrawal of…
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AI Is Now America’s Second-Favorite Financial Advisor. Should You Trust It?
Northeast Times reports that two out of three Americans who have used generative AI say they have asked it for…
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Study of 17 Million ChatGPT Messages Shows How Companies Actually Use AI
A working paper posted to arXiv on August 12 by researchers including Aaron Chatterji, David Holtz, and Prasanna Tambe analyzes…
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Math’s AI Crisis Has a Lesson for the Rest of Us
Artificial intelligence is beginning to solve longstanding mathematical problems, prompting concerns among mathematicians that the field may shift from a…
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No Widespread AI Job Losses, But the Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study finds that while AI has not caused widespread job displacement across the economy, young…
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AI Needs Public Feedback at Scale Before It’s Too Late
Nathan Gardels argues that AI companies possess the infrastructure to conduct massive global public consultations on AI governance, with billions…
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How Much Longer Can China Afford Cheap AI?
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke argues that ultra-cheap Chinese artificial intelligence, while squeezing the economics of Silicon Valley rivals, is…
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London’s DeepMind Loss Leaves a Very Bitter Taste
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Chris Hughes argues that the shift of Google DeepMind’s power base toward California underscores a broader pattern…
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EFF: The Youth AI Privacy Act Creates a Privacy Paradox for Minors
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that the Youth AI Privacy Act’s age-verification and “safe design” mandates would require platforms to…
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Christian Science Monitor: Schools’ AI “Gold Rush” Is Outpacing the Evidence
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the K-12 education technology market built around generative AI has grown to roughly $730…
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New Book Argues AI Adoption Is Accelerating Journalism’s Broken Business Model
A new book, “Journalism in the Age of AI” by researchers Rodrigo Zamith, Tomás Dodds, and Seth C. Lewis, examines…
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UC Berkeley Researchers: Bigger Data Centers Aren’t the Answer for Better AI
UC Berkeley researchers argue in a Nature commentary that the industry’s push to build ever-larger AI data centers is unnecessary,…