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Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time until it does.

Fortune

AI won't kill your job — it will kill the path to your first one

The AI disruption story is being told wrong. Firms aren't firing — they're freezing hiring.

Fortune

Top AI economist who found 'significant and disproportionate impact' on entry-level jobs finds link between robots and minimum wage hikes

If you raise the minimum wage 10%, then robot adoption goes up 8%, research looking at data from 1992 to 2021 shows.

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You have 18 months to figure out your office job, $1 billion CEO says. But it’s not going away

Tanmai Gopal of PromptQL said tech people have a bad habit of thinking "this affects me. So it's going to affect everyone like that."

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Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time until it does.

Fortune

Why your boss loves AI and you hate it: Corporate profits are capturing your extra productivity, and your salary isn’t

As happened with the first factories of the Industrial Revolution, today’s AI boom is boosting output, but most of the gains are flowing to capital, not workers.

Fortune

One of Stanford's original AI gurus says productivity liftoff has begun after doubling in 2025 amid transition to 'harvest phase' along J-curve

"We are transitioning from an era of AI experimentation to one of structural utility."

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AI must augment rather than replace us or human workers are doomed

Tech could lose its social acceptance unless it makes people’s lives better – and trade unions want an urgent conversation

The Guardian - UK

AI models are getting very good at professional tasks, new OpenAI research shows

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 excelled at many professional tasks, especially those performed by clerks, software developers, and private investigators

Fortune

The professions trying to get ahead thanks to AI are the ones most likely to lose their jobs to it, finds St. Louis Fed

AI job losses may be starting to show up in U.S. data, with a St. Louis Fed study linking rising unemployment to industries adopting generative AI.

Fortune

Study reveals which jobs are most at risk of being replaced with AI

Young people are more at risk from AI as artificial intelligence can more easily replicate their ‘book learning’ experience, the study suggests

The Independent UK

First-of-its-kind Stanford study says AI is starting to have a 'significant and disproportionate impact' on entry-level workers in the U.S.

Something appears to have changed in late 2022, specifically for young workers ages 22 to 25 in the jobs most exposed to AI.

Fortune

The Digitalist Papers (on AI and Democracy in America) Now Out from Stanford

Check out the essays here, or buy a Kindle ($1.99) or paperback or hardcover copy on Amazon. The book was… The post The Digitalist Papers (on AI and Democracy in America) Now Out from Stanford appeared first on Reason.com.

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Google’s ex-CEO blames remote working on the company’s AI woes

Eric Schmidt was responding to a question about how Google have lost the lead in AI to startups like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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AI will automate tasks, not jobs and other AI insights from Fortune Brainstorm Tech

AI will automate tasks, but not jobs. And insights on how companies can build AI that is trustworthy and reliable.

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Microsoft makes controversial Windows Recall AI feature an opt-in experience on Copilot+ PCs, as 'mere' 171 lines of code bypass its layers of security

Users have gone up in arms and raised concerns over Windows Recall's privacy. However, it doesn't seem like a big issue for Microsoft Research's Chief Scientist and technical fellow Jaime Teevan

Fortune

3 experts predict how AI will change the workplace

There's still a lot of work ahead for companies to capture the value of AI.

Fortune

Businesses aren’t prepared for AI’s massive labor disruption, but experts say focusing on a few key changes is vital

Critical thinking and reasoning skills will be more important than ever as AI takes over repetitive tasks, panelists explained at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference.

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The Conversation

AI: how it hands power to machines to transform the way we view the world

There are signs of AI everywhere, it’s behind everything from customer service chatbots to the personalised ads we receive when browsing online. However, we remain largely unaware of the hidden algorithms doing the heavy legwork behind the scenes.

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Adobe needed AI ideas fast. CFO Dan Durn shares how a hackathon sparked 100 ideas they whittled down to 5 winners

Durn decided to tap into the creativity of his team for solutions.

Fortune

How generative AI is placing CFOs at the forefront of company strategy

Experts weigh in on generative AI in the workplace, value creation, and the changing role of the CFO.

Fortune

A top economist who studies AI says it will double productivity in the next decade: ‘You need to embrace this technology and not resist it’

Unlike many others, Brynjolfsson sees AI potentially bringing a bright future for human workers.

Fortune

A.I. will reduce inequality by leveling the tech playing field

Previous IT waves made inequality worse by putting money and power in the hands of over-educated experts. A.I. could do the opposite.

WEKU

This company adopted AI. Here's what happened to its human workers

A group of economists conducted one of the first empirical studies of "generative AI" at a real-world company. They found it had big effects.

The Guardian - UK

China’s future to AI and jobs: five big questions from Davos

From the threat of AI weaponising spam to a trade war sparked by green subsidies, the taxing topics at this year’s World Economic Forum

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