Employers, governments leave workers unprepared
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Analysts said governments and employers were unprepared to help U.S. and European workers adapt as AI reshaped labor markets, prompting calls for urgent retraining even as job losses remained disputed.
by Ryan Calo Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.
September 16, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.
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.
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
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.
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
‘The US can’t lose’:
Pentagon plows ahead on AI despite warnings www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Pentagon plows ahead on AI despite warnings www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
‘The US can’t lose’: Pentagon plows ahead on AI despite warnings
Military leaders warn the risks of falling behind adversaries in artificial intelligence research outweigh the potential risks of the technology.
www.politico.com
September 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
‘The US can’t lose’:
Pentagon plows ahead on AI despite warnings www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Pentagon plows ahead on AI despite warnings www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
by Ryan Calo Reposted by Greg Linden
My computer and information science colleagues and I on supposed existential risks of AI. www.washington.edu/news/2026/09...
Q&A: UW researchers respond to recent concerns over AI risk | UW News
Recent news about AI safety is fueling a new wave of political and societal fear. Five UW AI researchers discuss the real risks of AI and what to do about them.
www.washington.edu
September 16, 2026 at 9:40 PM
My computer and information science colleagues and I on supposed existential risks of AI. www.washington.edu/news/2026/09...
We use the randomized lottery to break down the overall effect on US employment into part based on substitution (firms swapping natives & immigrants in the same role) versus scale (firms scaling up or down overall operations)
The scale effect dominates—>
The scale effect dominates—>
Firms allowed to hire immigrant manual laborers expand to hire more Americans
The US government has recently enacted the largest shift in immigration policy since 1924. As officials restrict unauthorized immigration, they face a stark choice: create offsetting lawful channels f...
www.piie.com
September 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
We use the randomized lottery to break down the overall effect on US employment into part based on substitution (firms swapping natives & immigrants in the same role) versus scale (firms scaling up or down overall operations)
The scale effect dominates—>
The scale effect dominates—>
We've already seen that the recent calls by AI industry leaders to ‘pace the frontier’ are insufficient, and their suggestions that we must weaken antitrust protections in order to confront the AI threat are transparently self-serving.
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
We've already seen that the recent calls by AI industry leaders to ‘pace the frontier’ are insufficient, and their suggestions that we must weaken antitrust protections in order to confront the AI threat are transparently self-serving.
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
by Ryan Enos Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez
I don't know how AI should fit into higher education - none of us quite do exactly. But this is definitely worth reading and considering as we are trying to figure it out.
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
September 16, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I don't know how AI should fit into higher education - none of us quite do exactly. But this is definitely worth reading and considering as we are trying to figure it out.
Frontier AI models are currently a dangerous technology without the safeguards needed to protect people from serious harm.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Frontier AI models are currently a dangerous technology without the safeguards needed to protect people from serious harm.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
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!
by Anna O. Law
But AI runs free everywhere in every context of our life.
September 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
But AI runs free everywhere in every context of our life.
#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.
Reposted by Kori Schake
Good news everyone: AI is *not* going to kill us all!
But don't take my word for it -- I talked to (real) experts, and dug deep into the logic of an "AI apocalypse" and found it wanting.
That doesn't mean AI companies are off the hook, though.
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
But don't take my word for it -- I talked to (real) experts, and dug deep into the logic of an "AI apocalypse" and found it wanting.
That doesn't mean AI companies are off the hook, though.
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
Forget the AI Apocalypse—the Real Threats Are Already Here
Airplanes, elevators and restaurants all have regulations to ensure their safe operation. Many experts argue for similar conventional measures for AI.
www.wsj.com
September 16, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Good news everyone: AI is *not* going to kill us all!
But don't take my word for it -- I talked to (real) experts, and dug deep into the logic of an "AI apocalypse" and found it wanting.
That doesn't mean AI companies are off the hook, though.
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
But don't take my word for it -- I talked to (real) experts, and dug deep into the logic of an "AI apocalypse" and found it wanting.
That doesn't mean AI companies are off the hook, though.
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
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
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
by Jessica Silbey Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog
With @hartzog.bsky.social a short version of "How AI Destroys Institutions" www.accountableaiforum.com/p/this-is-ho...
This is How AI Destroys Institutions
Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey
www.accountableaiforum.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
With @hartzog.bsky.social a short version of "How AI Destroys Institutions" www.accountableaiforum.com/p/this-is-ho...
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 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
Reposted by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good.
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
September 16, 2026 at 10:36 AM
“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good.
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Ingo Rohlfing, Ariadne Vromen
Turn to AI in research grant assessment ‘is inevitable’.
UKRI becomes first mover to explore automation for processing applications, as other British funders hesitate.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI becomes first mover to explore automation for processing applications, as other British funders hesitate.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
September 16, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Turn to AI in research grant assessment ‘is inevitable’.
UKRI becomes first mover to explore automation for processing applications, as other British funders hesitate.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI becomes first mover to explore automation for processing applications, as other British funders hesitate.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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...