#job-displacement

#job-displacement

"I think that one should work from the facts rather than just trying to cause an alarm," Marcus told Business Insider. "Hyped-up views have gotten us into a bad place, possibly one that's going to lead to a serious economic recession or something like that," Marcus told Business Insider. "And I guess I think that one should work from the facts rather than just trying to cause an alarm."

Recent developments suggest that the labor movement is starting to take a more active and adversarial approach toward AI in the workplace, This was hardly an isolated incident amid the breakneck integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the workplace. Ominous signs abound, from the news editor at a nonprofit news site who used AI to edit stories and then fired a reporter for raising objections, to Salesforce's cutting 4,000 customer support jobs and shifting to AI agents.

McDonald's has taken down a Christmas advert made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) following online backlash. The 45-second advert was produced with generative AI clips and released publicly on McDonald's Netherlands YouTube channel on 6 December. Viewers on social media denounced the use of AI in the film, with one commenter calling it "the most god-awful ad I've seen this year".

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?

It's becoming clearer that we are in a perilous financial situation globally. Fears over an "AI bubble" are being cited by the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon. If you want a sense of how insane the narrative is around AI investments, consider this: Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup, recently raised $2bn funding on a valuation of $10bn. The company has zero products, zero customers and zero revenues. The only thing it made public to its investors was the resume of its founder, Mira Murati, formerly chief technology officer at OpenAI. If that's not hubris meeting market exuberance, what is?