#job-displacement

#job-displacement

From his inauguration to last month's glitzy White House dinner for the Saudis, Trump basks in the support, gifts and affirmation of the most famous AI leaders and companies in the world. The big picture: Trump has essentially fused Silicon Valley and government in a race to both beat China to all-powerful AI and rescue an economy that's treading water outside of the AI boom. He has rolled back regulations, awarded huge contracts, and downplayed concerns about AI safety or downside risk.

Because AI is garbage. It's an inherently antihuman technology that is doing active harm to the now hundreds of millions of people who consume it. A recent MIT study showed that using AI bots, like ChatGPT, can deaden your cognitive skills. Multiple parents have filed suit against ChatGPT's parent company, the former nonprofit outfit OpenAI, accusing the product of encouraging their children to (successfully) die by suicide.

Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) have introduced new legislation aimed at increasing transparency around how artificial intelligence is reshaping the U.S. workforce. The proposal, known as the AI-Related Jobs Impact Clarity Act, would compel large companies and federal agencies to report AI-related job changes to the Labor Department on a quarterly basis. The bipartisan push signals broad concern about AI's effect on employment trends.

"I think I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people," Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a "60 Minutes" episode that aired Sunday. "Like who elected you and Sam Altman?" asked Anderson. "No one. Honestly, no one," Amodei replied.

Apple has created its new Apple TV+ streaming service introduction using entirely practical effects and in-camera techniques, drawing a sharp contrast with Coca-Cola's decision to produce its 2025 Christmas advertisement using artificial intelligence, according to Unilad Tech. What's happening? The tech company released behind-the-scenes footage showing how its creative team built and filmed the Apple TV+ logo sequence by hand rather than generating it digitally.

What happened with AWS outage recently is only a brief foreshadow of what might eventually come to pass if this trend continues. Imagine a world where most programmers are primarily LLM prompters with a very shallow understanding of core programming skills or even operational skills pertaining to an app, framework or library. What will we do if a major outage or technical issue occurs then and no person around knows what's really going on?

"The agricultural revolution unfolded over thousands of years. The industrial revolution took more than a century," the report reads. "Artificial labor could reshape the economy in less than a decade."

I love being able to bounce ideas off the AI like I do my other writer colleagues.

The debut of Meta's Vibes and OpenAI's Sora 2 has seemingly put a new type of worker in AI's path of destruction: Professional online creators. The new AI video feeds are fun, bizarre, uncanny, and suddenly very popular. Above all, they are social. They are meant to spark conversation, shares, likes, and engagement. And instead of the painstaking content creation process behind today's human-created video, their content is generated effortlessly via prompts.

Artificial intelligence is transforming not only the jobs people hold, but also the skills they rely on to do them. New data from LinkedIn shows that 85 percent of U.S. professionals could see at least a quarter of their skills affected by AI. In other words, a significant portion of workers' expertise may need to evolve to keep pace. As a reflection of this shift, the most in-demand skill over the past year, unsurprisingly, has been AI literacy.