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AI reshapes hiring; graduates suffer

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Employers in US and Europe shifted hiring as AI reshaped labor markets, boosting entry-level jobs in Greece while graduates faced scarce stable roles and women were underrepresented in AI leadership.

by Colin F. Camerer

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cfcamerer.bsky.social
Yikes

www.jezebel.com/stanford-ai-...
So Your College Isn’t Diverse Enough for Marketing Purposes? Just AI-Generate Some Black Students Into Existence!
Enrollment of Black students at Stanford has been down since Supreme Court axed affirmative action, but it has plenty of fake AI students.
www.jezebel.com
September 23, 2026 at 5:45 PM

Reposted by Robert T. Tally

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mattseybold.bsky.social
As a result of @benjaminjriley.bsky.social's most recent Alpha School reporting, all who have been saying "AI has a Mechanical Turk problem" - that is, "artificial intelligence" is actually the cognitive labor of humans in the Global South - get to take another victory lap.

They must be winded.
They hired this data team of people that didn't live in the U.S. and they would watch us through our computers and it felt really sketchy and scary. It felt like it was more of a science experiment, and I was more of a lab rat rather than [having] someone that actually cared about my learning. I was getting really frustrated about that throughout the year. Every time they would change something, I would be like, why are we changing this? We couldn't tape over the computer or anything like that. They would get really frustrated if we taped over it. We had to keep the camera on. [The software] would also track your facial expressions, and be like, "This is the emotion that you're evoking while you're talking about this." And every single time, it would tell me that I look really sad, which is fair because / was really sad, because / was crying every single day. They would make me and a few other kids take standardized math tests pretty much every day, and then any question that we got wrong, we would have to get on a Zoom call with some random guy from normally India and explain to him every single thing that we got wrong and why. And I hated that. I was a guinea pig, and I knew that I was a guinea pig. They were not subtle about it.
September 23, 2026 at 5:19 PM

by Ryan Enos

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ryanenos.bsky.social
I am all for disruption. But it is interesting to me that a constant drumbeat from Silicon Valley is that higher education is not working...even though they are all a direct reflection of it's value and is if American higher education isn't the envy of the world....
faineg.com Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 5h
Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds.

(Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?)

theacademysf.com
September 23, 2026 at 4:25 PM

Reposted by Will Jennings

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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
New global polling finds that people are much more likely to say AI will increase than decrease the gap between the rich and poor.
In the United States, 46% say AI will increase economic inequality, compared with just 5% who say it will decrease it.
September 23, 2026 at 2:36 PM

Reposted by William J. Brady, Laurent Dubois, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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kjephd.bsky.social
AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing.

If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so.

If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.
September 23, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Handelsblatt
Labor market: What should young people study in the AI era?

Fewer jobs, a lot of frustration: Young graduates in the US and Germany must navigate an uncertain job market. Which fields offer them the best chances.

Labor market: What should young people study in the AI era?
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To Vima
Job market: Which companies are making large-scale entry-level hires in Greece

42% of employers in Greece are increasing entry-level hires early in their careers, while finance and insurance record the highest rate. What's happening with job openings and what is the role of artificial intelligence?

Job market: Which companies are making large-scale entry-level hires in Greece
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Reposted by Peter Thorne

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The cool thing about AI is that it finally ended that annoying trend where electronics got less expensive year after year.
September 23, 2026 at 4:00 AM

by Brian Jm Quinn

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bjmquinn.bsky.social
Let me get this straight. 16-22 year olds can go to this place for 2 years to learn how to build AI models? In an industry where the cutting edge work is done by PhD math and computer scientists? Mmkay.
September 23, 2026 at 12:41 AM

by Afl-Cio

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aflcio.org
Working people are worried about what an AI future would look like. Not doomsday—but privacy, discrimination and job replacement.

That’s why America’s unions fight for AI guardrails in the workplace and in our contracts to protect our jobs and rights.
How Unions Are Confronting A.I. Threats in the Workplace
The machinists union shows how workers are negotiating for a say in the ways artificial intelligence is used in their workplaces.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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