AI deepens workplace gender gaps
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Experts say AI is reshaping work unevenly rather than triggering mass layoffs, with women underrepresented in new AI jobs and overrepresented in roles vulnerable to automation.
Reposted by Greg Linden, Jacob T. Levy
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
October 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
New paper from Yale's DEC
"Pax Digitalis: When Competition Becomes Partition"
"We argue that AI companies [...] are increasingly dividing the space through which AI reaches users rather than competing for it, each withdrawing to the province it already holds [...]".
OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
"Pax Digitalis: When Competition Becomes Partition"
"We argue that AI companies [...] are increasingly dividing the space through which AI reaches users rather than competing for it, each withdrawing to the province it already holds [...]".
OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
October 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
New paper from Yale's DEC
"Pax Digitalis: When Competition Becomes Partition"
"We argue that AI companies [...] are increasingly dividing the space through which AI reaches users rather than competing for it, each withdrawing to the province it already holds [...]".
OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
"Pax Digitalis: When Competition Becomes Partition"
"We argue that AI companies [...] are increasingly dividing the space through which AI reaches users rather than competing for it, each withdrawing to the province it already holds [...]".
OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
Will publish a novel: Rogue AI switched off, and is so happy.
October 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Will publish a novel: Rogue AI switched off, and is so happy.
by Carl T. Bergstrom Reposted by Juan Rocha
It's worth asking yourself why every day of the week the New York Times and pretty much every major legacy media outlet runs pieces espousing increasingly incoherent arguments for investing more in AI.
Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.
Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2026 at 12:28 AM
It's worth asking yourself why every day of the week the New York Times and pretty much every major legacy media outlet runs pieces espousing increasingly incoherent arguments for investing more in AI.
It is undeniable that we are likely to see dramatic regulatory change is post-disaster when AI labs are culpable. That's how regulation often happens. Super-interesting interview by @cwarzel.bsky.social with Zack Korman on cybersecurity and the answers lying in plain sight.
New: I really wanted to have a conversation about the AI agent hack stuff that was less focused on future scenarios and much more focused on what these tools can do now and how to control these companies. So I spoke with Zack Korman who argues this a cybersecurity problem youtu.be/2OE6TicW2f8?...
Calibrating the AI Anxiety
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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October 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
It is undeniable that we are likely to see dramatic regulatory change is post-disaster when AI labs are culpable. That's how regulation often happens. Super-interesting interview by @cwarzel.bsky.social with Zack Korman on cybersecurity and the answers lying in plain sight.
Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!
October 4, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!
by Carl T. Bergstrom Reposted by Juan Rocha, Jonathan A. Eisen
Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.
Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.
Hilariously with the UK I think there is not small chance that AI might save the economy, just in terms of getting a piece of the massive capital rollout.
October 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Hilariously with the UK I think there is not small chance that AI might save the economy, just in terms of getting a piece of the massive capital rollout.
As @davidho.bsky.social has suggested, this is how AI is going to kill us all😒🤨
President Trump announced that he would name four top administration officials to a “Super Intelligence Force” that will coordinate the federal government’s response to artificial intelligence.
Trump launches ‘Super Intelligence Force’ after calls for AI slowdown
Leaders from the intelligence community, the Pentagon, the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Personnel Management will serve on the task force.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
As @davidho.bsky.social has suggested, this is how AI is going to kill us all😒🤨
The absolute worst one I hear is that we need it to make sure marginalized kids in school are getting an adequate education
the unspoken leap of “poor kids don’t need teachers“ is soooo grim
the unspoken leap of “poor kids don’t need teachers“ is soooo grim
October 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The absolute worst one I hear is that we need it to make sure marginalized kids in school are getting an adequate education
the unspoken leap of “poor kids don’t need teachers“ is soooo grim
the unspoken leap of “poor kids don’t need teachers“ is soooo grim
There's still a large number of people who haven't tried any AI other than Google AI search in the last couple of years, and therefore do not understand why the rest of us are a bit freaked out by how quickly it's improving.
October 4, 2026 at 10:37 AM
There's still a large number of people who haven't tried any AI other than Google AI search in the last couple of years, and therefore do not understand why the rest of us are a bit freaked out by how quickly it's improving.