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Public opposition to artificial intelligence is growing fast in Western democracies, and policymakers have yet to find effective ways to respond. The Economist reports that protests against data centres have already blocked nearly $100 billion worth of projects in the United States, while around 40% of American voters say they want AI banned from most …
Artificial intelligence is shrinking job opportunities for young workers at an accelerating rate, according to new data from Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson and ADP Research. The findings, published through the newly launched Canaries Dashboard, draw on payroll records covering roughly one in six American workers across more than 730 occupations. The top-line numbers look calm. …
Brands are using AI-generated influencers to mimic authentic customer experiences on social media, often without any disclosure to consumers. Sarah Marsh reports for The Guardian that an investigation identified several companies posting AI-generated videos and photos designed to look like real user-generated content (UGC). Examples include a video of an apparently AI-generated bride praising a …
A collage of roughly 220 Amazon book covers reveals a hidden pattern in the flood of AI generated nonfiction. The covers, all discovered by searching for “100,000 whys”, look deceptively normal. Yet their eerie similarity exposes the telltale footprint of large language models. Security researcher and writer Michał Zalewski presents the collage on his blog …
A San Francisco marketing agency copied the entire contents of a bestselling book, replaced its original artwork with AI-generated images, and launched a website that now outranks the official page in search results. Andy Baio writes on Waxy.org that the agency, Qontour, built the unauthorized platform for John Koenig’s “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” without …
Artificial intelligence is dividing the global labour market into two distinct groups, with companies that use AI to enhance human expertise pulling ahead of those that deploy it mainly to cut costs. That is the central finding of the PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, which analysed more than one billion job advertisements across 27 …
German companies are the most optimistic in the world about the financial returns of their artificial intelligence investments, but significant obstacles are slowing down real-world results. A press release from management consultancy Horváth reports that 75 percent of senior executives at large German companies expect AI investments to have a strongly positive effect on EBIT …
Roughly one in two U.S. adults now use AI chatbots, a sharp jump from just a third in the summer of 2024. Jeffrey Gottfried, William Bishop, Monica Anderson, Michelle Faverio, Eugenie Park and Colleen McClain write for Pew Research Center about a new survey of 5,119 adults. The data paints a picture of rapid adoption …
Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss is seeing dramatic drops in sales across his entire book catalog, and he writes for his personal blog that the rise of AI chatbots is the primary cause. His data, drawn from BookScan domestic print figures, shows a sharp acceleration in decline that closely tracks the mainstream adoption of large …
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder predicts a prolonged and painful period of AI-driven disruption that will hit knowledge workers far harder than blue-collar employees. Casey Newton reports for Platformer in an interview with Kinder, who is leaving Brookings to launch a new organization focused on solving what she calls the problems of the “AI transition.” …