Authors Can Defend Against AI Allegations With ‘Paper Trail’ Tools. Is It Enough?
WIRED — As the publishing industry wrestles with paranoia over the provenance of manuscripts, writers are caught in an impossible bind.
AI & Work
AI and work encompasses the ways artificial intelligence tools impact employment, job roles, productivity and workplaces across industries. Truncated covers workplace automation studies, labor market shifts, enterprise software adoption, and policy and legal developments regarding AI and employment.
Anti-AI populism is the future of American politics | Garrison Lovely
The Guardian — Democrats should drag Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk before the world and make them explain just what it is they’re trying to do and why
Clients Want Law Firms to Use AI. But That’s Not All They Want
news.bloomberglaw.com — Opinion: Your clients aren't paying you to provide legal advice from Claude, writes Bristol Myers Squibb's Patience Bin. Lawyers worth paying for give advice tailored to our company, our risk appetite, and the specific regulatory environment we operate in.
Book Review: The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results by Gleb Tsipursky
www.unite.ai — Even running a news website on AI, I ran into internal resistance from employees who were reluctant to adopt AI fully. While we used AI for market research, bullet-point summarization, and translations, there was hesitat...
AI pulls up the civil service ladder to Southeast Asia’s middle class
www.scmp.com — Mass lay-offs are off the table, but slower recruitment could freeze out university leavers, observers say.
Microsoft's CEO imagines 20 million AI agents doing the work, as the company offers 60,000 employees an exit
www.windowslatest.com — Satya Nadella imagines millions of AI agents working with Microsoft's employees, as Microsoft offers voluntary exits to about 60,000 workers.
Jackbox Games isn't interested in AI development: 'All that is done by people, and we have no intention of changing that'
Trevor Noah on AI
www.geekwire.com — Trevor Noah told an audience at Boston's Museum of Science on Oct. 19 that the real question about AI and jobs is the "following distance" between old jobs disappearing and new ones arriving. Oren Etzioni, who joined him onstage, recounts Noah's views on why AI struggles with comedy, why in-person community matters and why AI only seems to go deep.
The game reverse engineering community is the latest casualty of AI
www.engadget.com — With the rise of code-focused AI models, breaking down games and porting them has become a lot easier. Some decompilation communities have given up altogether.
Gig workers are using AI to fight deactivations on apps like Uber and Instacart
www.businessinsider.com — Companies like Uber and Instacart often deactivate gig workers' accounts with little notice. Some workers are turning to AI to fight back.
‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints
The Guardian — MPs’ offices, local authorities, lawyers, schools and more are receiving floods of grievances, requests and legal challenges, often complex to read and respond to
AI is speeding up recruitment — and putting agency fees under pressure
www.cnbc.com — Recruiters say AI is speeding up screening and reshaping agency work, raising questions about whether percentage-based placement fees can hold.
Camerimage Opens With Minute Of Silence For Kraków Mass Shooting; Darren Aronofsky Honored & Luca Guadagnino Introduces ‘Artificial’
Deadline — 'Black Swan' director Darren Aronofsky was also honored at the festival, which kicked off Luca Guadagnino's ‘Artificial’ starring Andrew Garfield.
Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They're Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake
Futurism — Now that executives are drowning in meaningless "workslop," they're starting to sing a very different tune about the use of AI at work.
AI is changing what it takes to get hired as a mathematician
Business Insider — Mathematicians are struggling as AI upends their field. A prominent math professor says a little charisma will help researchers set themselves apart.
America's newest small business owners with no employees are off to a hot start in AI era
CNBC — New small business formation is rising for owners who can grow with AI serving in finance, marketing and design roles, eliminating the need for hiring.
Apple @ Work: Mac admins are shipping AI-written code with mistakes, but fixing the problems is taking days
9to5Mac — Fleet surveyed 250+ Apple IT admins. Most now push AI written profiles and scripts to production, but 43% need more than a day to roll back.
The Jevons paradox has a second half
hrih.si — In 1865 Jevons argued that efficient engines would make Britain burn more coal, and that cheaper products would mean more work. He was right for about fifty years. What coal, light, farms, bank tellers and switchboards say about software jobs now that AI makes code cheap.
'Shock absorbers': Korn Ferry says managers are carrying AI change that executives aren’t ready to lead
Fortune — A Korn Ferry survey of more than 1,300 leaders finds managers absorbing AI uncertainty, while Gallup says just 25% of U.S. workers have heard a clear plan.
A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush
Rest of World — Labor disputes and unionization in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry highlight growing worker discontent over the unequal distribution of profits from the AI boom.
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