AI reshapes the job market, but more slowly than predicted

Artificial intelligence is changing what jobs exist, what they require, and what they pay. New roles are emerging at AI companies and across industries, while researchers and economists debate how fast and how deeply automation will affect employment overall. Business Insider has identified several new or resurgent job categories driven by AI adoption. At the …

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Gen Z grows resentful of AI as adoption stalls and concerns mount

Gen Z is increasingly frustrated with artificial intelligence. New polling data and a growing number of firsthand accounts suggest that young people are not embracing AI as enthusiastically as tech companies have claimed. Instead, many are angry, anxious, and skeptical about where the technology is headed. A Gallup survey released by the Walton Family Foundation …

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Copyright law may be the key to protecting human creatives from AI

The biggest legal battle shaping the future of creative work may not be the one making headlines. While more than 90 lawsuits have been filed against AI companies for using copyrighted material to train their models, Jacob Noti-Victor and Xiyin Tang report for The Atlantic that a different copyright question will prove far more consequential: …

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New data: AI adoption widens gap between high and low earners

High-earning, experienced workers are adopting artificial intelligence tools at work far faster than their lower-paid colleagues, raising concerns that the technology could deepen existing inequalities rather than reduce them. Madhumita Murgia and John Burn-Murdoch report for the Financial Times. A poll of 4,000 workers in the United States and United Kingdom found that more than …

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AI job displacement threatens 6.1 million US workers with limited adaptation capacity

New research from the Brookings Institution reveals a critical gap in how policymakers assess artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce. While 37.1 million American workers face high AI exposure, 6.1 million lack the resources to adapt if job loss occurs. Sam Manning and Tomás Aguirre report for the National Bureau of Economic Research. The researchers …

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US study finds generative AI is not causing significant job losses

A recent US study indicates that there is little evidence of generative artificial intelligence causing widespread job losses or severely disrupting the labor market. Claire Jones and Melissa Heikkilä report for the Financial Times that the research was conducted by economists at the Yale University Budget Lab and the Brookings Institution. The analysis suggests that …

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Microsoft plans AI marketplace to pay publishers for content

Microsoft is developing a marketplace to compensate publishers for their content used by artificial intelligence. Axios reports that the company is in talks with several U.S. publishers about a pilot program. The project, called the Publisher Content Marketplace, would launch with Microsoft’s Copilot assistant. This move would make Microsoft the first major tech company to …

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Anthropic report shows uneven AI adoption and rising user trust

A new report on the use of the AI model Claude reveals that its adoption is uneven across geographies and industries, with users increasingly entrusting it with automated tasks. According to the third Anthropic Economic Index, these early patterns are beginning to reshape work and the economy. The analysis finds that AI use correlates strongly …

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Tech companies scrape millions of YouTube videos for AI training

Tech companies have downloaded more than 15 million videos from over two million YouTube channels to train their artificial intelligence models. Alex Reisner reports for The Atlantic that this practice often occurs without the creators’ permission and violates the platform’s terms of service. The investigation identified at least 13 data sets containing the scraped content, …

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A new standard lets publishers charge AI companies

A coalition of major web publishers, including Reddit, Yahoo, and Quora, has launched a new system called Really Simple Licensing (RSL). The standard aims to make AI companies pay for using online content to train their artificial intelligence models. The RSL Standard builds on the existing `robots.txt` protocol, a file that gives instructions to web …

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