AI displaces graduates, sparks reskilling
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College graduates in the US and Germany faced shrinking entry‑level job openings as AI automated routine tasks, boosting demand for AI specialists and pushing calls for reskilling.
Reposted by Anna O. Law
What if AI neither saves nor destroys humanity but takes the enshittification of the internet so far that I finally log off forever... and thereby AI saves me?
September 15, 2026 at 11:27 PM
What if AI neither saves nor destroys humanity but takes the enshittification of the internet so far that I finally log off forever... and thereby AI saves me?
Why a swift AI pause is unlikely: No one trusts AI companies www.axios.com/2026/09/15/a...
Why a swift AI pause is unlikely: No one trusts AI companies
Few really trust the industry, or the safety advocates who come from deep inside it.
www.axios.com
September 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Why a swift AI pause is unlikely: No one trusts AI companies www.axios.com/2026/09/15/a...
What an AI slowdown would mean www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
What an AI slowdown would mean
Would restraining the growth of artificial intelligence's dangers require a U.S.-China pact? Or a change to antitrust law? Or just a willingness in Silicon Valley to choose humanity over profits?
www.politico.com
September 15, 2026 at 10:38 PM
What an AI slowdown would mean www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Reposted by James Goodwin
It's difficult to pick apart fears about AI & data centers that are intrinsic to the technologies vs. those that are connected to the fact that giant, fateful decisions about these things are being made by a small handful of insular brain-cooked oligarch narcissists.
September 15, 2026 at 10:12 PM
It's difficult to pick apart fears about AI & data centers that are intrinsic to the technologies vs. those that are connected to the fact that giant, fateful decisions about these things are being made by a small handful of insular brain-cooked oligarch narcissists.
The people who fear AI are wasting time fighting each other www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The people who fear AI are wasting time fighting each other
The AI risk debate has become pointlessly tribal. There’s a way out.
www.vox.com
September 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
The people who fear AI are wasting time fighting each other www.vox.com/future-perfe...
by John Holbein
I say all of this not because I believe AI has no costs for higher education. It certainly does!
But it also has some benefits.
But it also has some benefits.
September 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I say all of this not because I believe AI has no costs for higher education. It certainly does!
But it also has some benefits.
But it also has some benefits.
This is a good guide to where various figures in Silicon Valley and in politics stand on AI.
How A.I. Risks Are Splitting Silicon Valley and Washington (Gift Article)
What began as a philosophical question — how dangerous might artificial intelligence become? — has hardened into increasingly entrenched rival camps.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2026 at 9:47 PM
This is a good guide to where various figures in Silicon Valley and in politics stand on AI.
by John Holbein
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education.
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
September 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education.
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
Reposted by Fabián Muniesa
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app gives a history lesson on AI "existential risk" talk and explains how we don't have to accept Big Tech's utopia or apocalyptic visions for the future:
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
Watch Gebru: AI Security & Safety Is About Human Control - Bloomberg
Timnit Gebru DAIR Institute Founder & Executive Director, discusses her early warnings about artificial intelligence risks and her departure from Google’s ethical AI team in 2020. She discusses whethe...
www.bloomberg.com
September 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app gives a history lesson on AI "existential risk" talk and explains how we don't have to accept Big Tech's utopia or apocalyptic visions for the future:
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
by Paul Fisher
I’m pretty sure they are crazy too but not in the “future AI god will torture us way” but more the “my army of AI slaves will replace you punny humans way”. My view is they play up the risk stuff in a more insincere reason to motivate people funding them to give them more cash.
September 15, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I’m pretty sure they are crazy too but not in the “future AI god will torture us way” but more the “my army of AI slaves will replace you punny humans way”. My view is they play up the risk stuff in a more insincere reason to motivate people funding them to give them more cash.
AI co's to society: "Hi, I'm new to the neighborhood. I'm loud and disruptive, I'll take everything I can grab, build hideous buildings nearby, hog water and electricity, and drive up bills, so you pay for it. I'll take your job and possibly kill you. I hope you give me a warm welcome!"
September 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
AI co's to society: "Hi, I'm new to the neighborhood. I'm loud and disruptive, I'll take everything I can grab, build hideous buildings nearby, hog water and electricity, and drive up bills, so you pay for it. I'll take your job and possibly kill you. I hope you give me a warm welcome!"
Thought-provoking article about the emerging cyber security challenges cutting across digital, physical and operational environments ...
www.csoonline.com/article/4221...
www.csoonline.com/article/4221...
AI is exposing a security structure built for yesterday’s threats
AI-driven threats are blurring cyber and physical security, making integrated, cross-functional defense essential for resilience.
www.csoonline.com
September 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Thought-provoking article about the emerging cyber security challenges cutting across digital, physical and operational environments ...
www.csoonline.com/article/4221...
www.csoonline.com/article/4221...
by Alfie Kohn
In a rational society, something as problematic - and as potentially devastating - as AI would of course be strictly regulated by the government. But we're still in thrall to Reagan-era free-market ideology that leaves for-profit companies to police themselves. Laissez-faire dogma could kill us all.
Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."
September 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM
In a rational society, something as problematic - and as potentially devastating - as AI would of course be strictly regulated by the government. But we're still in thrall to Reagan-era free-market ideology that leaves for-profit companies to police themselves. Laissez-faire dogma could kill us all.
In which @himself.bsky.social repeats my favorite Tilly quote: "Our methodology should fit “like a sweatshirt and not like a straitjacket." Worth a read and glad he is working more on this.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/how-should...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/how-should...
How should social science think about AI?
Big structures and large processes are back, baby
www.programmablemutter.com
September 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
In which @himself.bsky.social repeats my favorite Tilly quote: "Our methodology should fit “like a sweatshirt and not like a straitjacket." Worth a read and glad he is working more on this.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/how-should...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/how-should...
In the very near future, universities will be measured by the degree to which they frankly acknowledge and address the damage to learning that AI inflicts on every student. In the meantime, administrators race to prostrate themselves before SV for crumbs. It's gross.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
September 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
In the very near future, universities will be measured by the degree to which they frankly acknowledge and address the damage to learning that AI inflicts on every student. In the meantime, administrators race to prostrate themselves before SV for crumbs. It's gross.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
and if you aren't using AI don't bother. But don't just throw it in. Basically switch your research to AI-driven
September 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
and if you aren't using AI don't bother. But don't just throw it in. Basically switch your research to AI-driven
AI is really going to kill us, it's inevitable now.
September 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
AI is really going to kill us, it's inevitable now.
AI is really going to kill us, it's inevitable now.
September 15, 2026 at 4:35 PM
AI is really going to kill us, it's inevitable now.
Reposted by Michael Larkin
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Confident predictions about what AI will achieve, what threat it poses, & when have circulated since at least the 1950s. But how well are these predictions made? This is what @floridi.bsky.social & @claudionovelli.bsky.social & I set out to examine here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Confident predictions about what AI will achieve, what threat it poses, & when have circulated since at least the 1950s. But how well are these predictions made? This is what @floridi.bsky.social & @claudionovelli.bsky.social & I set out to examine here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Not Even Wrong 2: An Audit of Public AGI Prediction, 1950-2026
Public predictions of the arrival of artificial general intelligence, the technological Singularity, and human extinction caused by AI shape investment, policy,
papers.ssrn.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Confident predictions about what AI will achieve, what threat it poses, & when have circulated since at least the 1950s. But how well are these predictions made? This is what @floridi.bsky.social & @claudionovelli.bsky.social & I set out to examine here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Confident predictions about what AI will achieve, what threat it poses, & when have circulated since at least the 1950s. But how well are these predictions made? This is what @floridi.bsky.social & @claudionovelli.bsky.social & I set out to examine here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....