Corporate workers are facing mass layoffs and a shrinking pool of available jobs due to tariffs, slowing economic growth and the increased focus on AI, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Tag: AI
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HUMAN OBSOLESCENCE HITTING HOME
Fewer “experts” are predicting tremendous new human job sectors and expansion will result from Artificial Intelligence and automation.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PARASITE AI COMPANIES CONTINUE BLEEDING GEN Z
Whether by scraping their content and data without compensation, or by replacing them on entry rungs in the work world, AI companies are accelerating the exploitation and functional destruction of young workers.
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CHINA’S AI INDUSTRY TARGETS AFRICA
Two Chinese tech powerhouses have combined to stake their country’s claim to Africa’s AI industry.
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WALMART SIGNS WITH CHATGPT
Walmart has become the latest retailer to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT without leaving the app.
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AI’S VOICE NOW SOUNDS ALL TOO HUMAN
On July 9, a woman sent $15,000 to someone she thought was her daughter, who was on the phone crying that she’d been in an accident and needed the money to stay out of jail.
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AN AI BECAME SELF-REFLECTIVE AND IMPROVED ITS PERFORMANCE
A coalition of AI scientists has trained an AI by Mistral, a French developer, to think before it speaks. Taking that pause has improved the AI’s ability to use common sense and doubled its score on a math test.
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WHY CHATBOTS GUZZLE SO MUCH ENERGY
The rush to build electricity-sucking AI data centers has overwhelmed the energy industry, as we reported in articles including “AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Electricity” (16 Jul 2024) and “By 2030, AI Will Need More Electricity Than Japan, IEA Says” (6 May 2025).
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HUMILITY VS. ‘GREAT RESPONSIBILITY’: ASI AND THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES
Artificial Super Intelligence? Don’t go there. That’s the message signed by hundreds of professionals in the AI tech industries and elsewhere.
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HUMAN-SERVING TECH, OR ‘WE ARE LEGION’ ALIEN SPECIES?
The physical AI endgame is not to create technology that serves humans, but to birth an alien species.