Data, Power and Emissions: How AI’s Growth May Slow Down the Green Transition
AI’s power demands are producing heavier use of fossil fuels to generate electricity.
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Big Employers Using AI to Decimate White Collar Jobs; What Happens When Real Incomes, Employment, and Social Compacts Erode?
Big companies are cutting white collar jobs, because AI, and warn more is to come. What does this mean for the economy and social stability?
Read more...Revolt Against Data Centers Spreading Around the World
Data centers’ rapidly rising resource demands is fuelling rising internatiional opposition.
Read more...Rob Urie: Democrats Who Created the Bad Status Quo Won’t Become Saviors
The Democrats as a and even the reason US policies are so contrary to the interests of most of the public.
Read more...OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats − Here’s Why That Matters
What happens when surveillance pricing meets the AI hype?
Read more...Not the Fix—The Tell: The Meaning of a $100,000 H-1B Fee
The new $100,000 H-1B fee tacitly acknowledges what early policy architects signaled: expanding temporary tech visas can depress domestic wages. By bringing the fully loaded cost of a new H1B hire closer to what the local market would require to recruit and retain comparable talent, it narrows the wedge between visa-enabled staffing and hiring Americans at market rates.
Read more...Putting a Pause on the Practice of Surrogacy
Surrogacy’s health risks raise ethical issues over whether the practice is exploitative and should be banned.
Read more...AI Is Coming For Your Doctor
Medical systems using Epic are planning to turn most patient care decisions over to AI.
Read more...Data Centers Spark Bipartisan Fury As Energy Costs Soar
Voters are waking up to the fact that their soaring electricity costs represent a big subsidy to data centers. What happens next?
Read more...Financial Institution Leaders Issue More Warnings of Equity Market Froth, Dodgy Debt Bombs
Financial firm heads are making admissions against interest. Further discussion of apparent and potential risks.
Read more...Crypto Crash Leads to Customer Bail-Ins to Prevent Some Exchanges from Failing
Yet more reason to be leery of crypto: even when you have won on a leveraged bet, you can be haircut to help rescue the exchange.
Read more...How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think
Is technology expanding or contracting our horizons?
Read more...AI: Is it Really Different this Time?
AI is huge. But so is the hype, hocus-pocus deals, and piles of real money fortified by leverage that caused stock prices to explode.
Read more...Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?
The Trump Administration is eager to integrate AI into military operations, even as experts warn: “The AI is always playing Curtis LeMay.”
Read more...Coffee Break: Genes and Disease, Workslop Passing for Science, Nobel News, a Labor Party in the US, and Our Sick Politics
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