AI slows wages, boosts demand
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Researchers and analysts said AI reshaped the labor market, contributing to slower wage growth and hiring in some sectors while boosting demand for skilled AI workers and role redefinition.
by Naomi Klein Reposted by Devon Greyson
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States.
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September 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States.
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@democracynow.org
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This is an extremely cool teachign example
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 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
This is an extremely cool teachign example
Working people are worried about their futures. We shouldn’t have to live in fear for our jobs or our lives because of AI.
That’s why 90% of Americans want REAL AI guardrails — to protect our jobs, rights and privacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/12/workers-ai-policy-unions
That’s why 90% of Americans want REAL AI guardrails — to protect our jobs, rights and privacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/12/workers-ai-policy-unions
US workers overwhelmingly support union-backed policies on AI, poll says
Nine out of 10 workers express support for policies on artificial intelligence that labor unions may fight for
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Working people are worried about their futures. We shouldn’t have to live in fear for our jobs or our lives because of AI.
That’s why 90% of Americans want REAL AI guardrails — to protect our jobs, rights and privacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/12/workers-ai-policy-unions
That’s why 90% of Americans want REAL AI guardrails — to protect our jobs, rights and privacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/12/workers-ai-policy-unions
Reposted by Bessma Momani, Henry Jones
"AI folks have spent a long time talking to one another, and their explanations not just for what they’re attempting to build but why they have to build it are layered, heavily contingent thought experiments, rich in metaphor, full of prediction, and articulated in terms of game theory."
Why Everyone’s Talking About the AI Apocalypse
The AI-safety people finally have the public’s attention. Now what?
nymag.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
"AI folks have spent a long time talking to one another, and their explanations not just for what they’re attempting to build but why they have to build it are layered, heavily contingent thought experiments, rich in metaphor, full of prediction, and articulated in terms of game theory."
#WolffBites: Billionaires with sudden moral qualms about AI may just be disguising efforts to secure their monopoly positions.
September 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
#WolffBites: Billionaires with sudden moral qualms about AI may just be disguising efforts to secure their monopoly positions.
by Ian Bremmer
nothing i see from the heads of ai companies suggests a meaningful slowdown
and full dismissal of slowdown talk from the trump admin
on @cnbctv18.bsky.social
and full dismissal of slowdown talk from the trump admin
on @cnbctv18.bsky.social
September 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM
nothing i see from the heads of ai companies suggests a meaningful slowdown
and full dismissal of slowdown talk from the trump admin
on @cnbctv18.bsky.social
and full dismissal of slowdown talk from the trump admin
on @cnbctv18.bsky.social
Top AI companies are asking for supervision. Here's why Congress might not give it to them. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Top AI companies are asking for supervision. Here's why Congress might not give it to them.
As the artificial intelligence lobby warms to mandatory independent audits, critics warn of conflicts of interest and "regulatory capture."
www.politico.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Top AI companies are asking for supervision. Here's why Congress might not give it to them. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Reposted by Mark Rice, Anastasia Salter
You know what we really need right now? The opinions of two guys who don’t know anything about AI and who have been wrong about many or all of the most consequential events of the past quarter century.
NYT: coming right up!
NYT: coming right up!
September 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM
You know what we really need right now? The opinions of two guys who don’t know anything about AI and who have been wrong about many or all of the most consequential events of the past quarter century.
NYT: coming right up!
NYT: coming right up!
Reposted by Tim Hitchcock, Adrian Vickers
So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.
September 16, 2026 at 7:16 AM
So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.
An aging Congress' dilemma:
Can they regulate AI without using it? www.axios.com/2026/09/16/l...
Can they regulate AI without using it? www.axios.com/2026/09/16/l...
An aging Congress' dilemma: Can they regulate AI without using it?
Critics say it's impossible for politicians to grasp how rapidly AI is changing if they don't use it.
www.axios.com
September 16, 2026 at 9:41 AM
An aging Congress' dilemma:
Can they regulate AI without using it? www.axios.com/2026/09/16/l...
Can they regulate AI without using it? www.axios.com/2026/09/16/l...
Personally, I'd credit this more to "reality" media more broadly, but this is catchy.
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States.
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
September 16, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Personally, I'd credit this more to "reality" media more broadly, but this is catchy.
by John Holbein Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
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: 🧵
Why Is Trump Still Boosting AI?
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...
Why Is Trump Still Boosting AI?
Because it’s the only thing he has left
paulkrugman.substack.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Why Is Trump Still Boosting AI?
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...
Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol
UK workers spend nearly £1 billion of their own money on AI for work, Deloitte finds reut.rs/3UQoQaQ
UK workers spend nearly £1 billion of their own money on AI for work, Deloitte finds
One is six workers in Britain is paying for an AI tool to help them do their job, at a total cost of nearly £1 billion ($1.4 billion) a year of their own money, according to research published by Deloitte on Wednesday.
reut.rs
September 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
UK workers spend nearly £1 billion of their own money on AI for work, Deloitte finds reut.rs/3UQoQaQ
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.
by Bob Hudson
Journalism is already dying on its feet. Now AI is finishing it off. Bad news for anyone interested in transparency and accountability - that’s surely all of us? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Mirror publisher to cut 220 editorial jobs as readers turn to AI summaries
Reach, which also owns Express, makes decision because of ‘mammoth shift’ in how audiences seek out content
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Journalism is already dying on its feet. Now AI is finishing it off. Bad news for anyone interested in transparency and accountability - that’s surely all of us? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
1) AI has huge potential to revolutionize education; 2) it could be, on average, bad for student achievement given how it's used.
More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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September 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
1) AI has huge potential to revolutionize education; 2) it could be, on average, bad for student achievement given how it's used.
More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
2/n
More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
2/n
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...
by Seth Masket
I wrote the other day about AI becoming a populist issue that transcended party lines, not realizing Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon were about to share a stage on this topic!
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
September 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I wrote the other day about AI becoming a populist issue that transcended party lines, not realizing Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon were about to share a stage on this topic!
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
by Richard Shaw Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
"Academics" whose main goal is to tick boxes to advance their career have AI doing the box ticking for them.
It's turning life into terrible computer game where to maximise careerists "score", all the fun bits are delegated to AI, leaving people to deal with the worst consequences of management.
It's turning life into terrible computer game where to maximise careerists "score", all the fun bits are delegated to AI, leaving people to deal with the worst consequences of management.
September 16, 2026 at 8:04 AM
"Academics" whose main goal is to tick boxes to advance their career have AI doing the box ticking for them.
It's turning life into terrible computer game where to maximise careerists "score", all the fun bits are delegated to AI, leaving people to deal with the worst consequences of management.
It's turning life into terrible computer game where to maximise careerists "score", all the fun bits are delegated to AI, leaving people to deal with the worst consequences of management.