This, more than anything else, is the reason why AI will not overtake the entire economy any time soon.
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The Privacy Implications of User Data in AI Assistants
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Forget public conversations. People unload their inner lives – hopes, wishes, desires, anxieties and worries into their AI assistants. That data is way more sensitive & valuable than anything the govt could record publicly. We built our own panopticon and pay monthly for it. https://t.co/EUcTe1GvbT
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 27 février 2026Forget public conversations. People unload their inner lives – hopes, wishes, desires, anxieties and worries into their AI assistants. That data is way more sensitive & valuable than anything the govt could record publicly. We built our own panopticon and pay monthly for it.
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Tech Layoffs Reveal Bloated Workforce Problem
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one of the first essays i ever wrote on not boring was about how the covid job loss wasn't as bad as it seemed because a lot of people were comfortably stuck in bullshit jobs in bloated companies. block almost certainly didn't need 10,000 people.
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Being laid off in lowercase: tech industry job losses
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this is important in a lot of ways that people have already tweeted about, but imagine being let go in lowercase
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US Government Using Uncensored Chinese AI for Surveillance: An Ironic Scenario
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It would be so ironic if the US government ends up using uncensored guardrails-free Chinese models for mass surveillance of our citizens.
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Blocks CEO Announces 40% Workforce Layoffs Due to AI
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This message from the CEO of Blocks, announcing the decision to lay off 40% of its workforce due to the changes brought by AI in recent months, is impactful. One detail in the message that the other day someone pointed out to me, which I hadn't reflected on, is that, of course,
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AI-prompted Layoffs Become a Reality in the Workforce
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Massive AI prompted layoffs just got real.
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AI’s Impact Accelerates: Innovation and Future Prospects
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AI’s Impact Accelerates
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AI’s Societal Impact: A Warning on Current and Future Challenges
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My time here been a failure. I tried to get the Twitterverse to wake up before things got bad. Now we are here. Things are bad. And about to get worse. Most people still don’t realize how bad. It’s not that AI is inherently impossible or immoral. It’s that most of the
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Social tensions caused by the Great Replacement by AI
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Read carefully. In the next 9 years, social tensions will have become so strong in the West due to the Great Replacement of humans at work by #AI that Western governments, very late on the subject, will be forced to ban or to