This came as a surprise: "Chinese companies cannot legally fire employees simply to replace them with cost-saving artificial intelligence, courts in the country have ruled, setting a significant precedent for labor rights as automation sweeps the tech sector. A technology
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Amodei Contrasts AI Extinction Risk With Cancer Cure Vision
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Breaking: The man who says there is a 25% chance AI kills everyone just wrote 14,000 words on how AI cures cancer and doubles human lifespan to 150 years. Dario Amodei runs Anthropic. He is the safety guy. The same person who publicly says AI has a one-in-four chance of causing
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Sam Altman Right: AI Social Disruption Needs More Discussion
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I think Sam Altman's point is quite accurate in this respect. There will be disruption, social changes brought about by AI, and this isn't being discussed enough. It's something I'd like to research further. The social transformation is already underway. The question is how (!)
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Teen Collects 14,000 Hours of Factory Worker Data via Smart Glasses
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I met an 18 year old who got 14,000 hours of factory workers data by getting them to wear glasses with cameras. And I know he isn't alone. We'll be hearing about much more of this in the future.
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Study Documents AI Inequalities Among Lower Socioeconomic Americans
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A study of >10,000 Americans documents AI inequalities, lack of awareness and usage among lower SES https://
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SAS CTO: Future Belongs to AI with Governance and Accountability
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CTO Bryan Harris on SAS' 50th anniversary: “The next era of innovation will belong to companies that can combine powerful AI with governance, transparency and accountability. That’s exactly where SAS is focused.” #SASInnovate
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AI Chatbots Yield Lower Quality Symptom Reports Than Physicians
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Symptoms reported to an AI chatbot were of lesser quality than reported to a physician, results of a randomized trial of 500 participants across multiple models https://
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Is a Model Trained on Claude Outputs Without Permission Open Source?
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Would you still call a model open source if it was trained on Claude's outputs without permission?
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Open Source AI Models and the Secret of Knowledge Distillation
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Some "open source" AI models have a secret. They were trained using outputs from closed models like ChatGPT and Claude. The weights are free. The code is public. Anyone can run them.
But the intelligence inside came from somewhere else. This technique is called distillation.
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AI Agents Deployed to Monitor Petition Signatory Data Usage
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J'ai fait en sorte de signer cette pétition avec plusieurs agents IA indétectables qui laissent des traces intelligentes et qui vont me permettre de voir et comprendre comment et surtout par qui seront utilisées les données de la liste des signataires. https://t.co/jifHWQVsG9
— Olivier Rimmel 🕊️ (@OlivierRimmel) 1 mai 2026I've made sure to sign this petition with several undetectable AI agents that leave intelligent traces and that will allow me to see and understand how and, above all, by whom the data from the list of signatories will be used.