Agents are going to open a whole bunch of cans of worms.
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AI Disruption and Future Job Creation: Human Adaptation Strategy
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Yeah, it will be short term pain, and I expect hate for AI to only continue to get worse. But I believe humans, as always, will adapt and create new jobs. It’ll be a new world so it’s hard to say exactly what those jobs will be — but there will always be work to be done.
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Success Paradox: When Achievement Doesn’t Fulfill Personal Needs
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highly successful people are often driven by pain, and when their success turns out to not resolve their problem, they may decide that they played the game through, it wasn’t fun and has no replay value; also, outward success has some unpleasant side effects
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Centaurs and Cyborgs: Human-AI Collaboration Framework
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Write up of our paper: https://
oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and
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Simon-Ehrlich Wager: Technology Resources and Economic Future
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Context of the wager https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%
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Automation Prioritizes Profit Over People and Planet
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Every job that can be automated or replaced will be where GDP or productivity with and shareholder value is prioritized. Period. When have you heard the phrase, “we can save money and time with X job done with AI but we care more about people and planet?”
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Bridging AI Research Gap for Nonprofit Organizations
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Nonprofits and philanthropic organizations should be part of the AI conversation. How can we bridge the gap between AI research and the needs of this community? @StanfordHAI
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IEEE SA Mental Health Forum Addresses AI Ethics and Wellbeing
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Kudos to Maria Palombini and @IEEESA for their mental health forum happening in London today.
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Journalism’s decline threatens accountability in technology era
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This is a sharp, thorough, and ultimately very frightening account of the continued hollowing out of journalism capable of speaking truth to power.
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Group Dynamics and Moral Righteousness in Social Movements
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My sense was that it often starts out with genuine righteousness, fueled by group dynamics and the feeling of collectively correcting social wrongs by pushing against an immoral societal forcefield with increasingly political means