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Leaders push retraining for AI

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IE University president Santiago Íñiguez and AI industry leaders urged governments and institutions to prioritize AI adoption and revamp education toward humanities and new IT skills to prepare workforces.

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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'In the past few weeks three new applications of AI have landed that could each have a profound impact on our shared reality: OpenAI’s new video platform, Sora; the scaling of a virtual companion called “Friend” and Meta’s push to import its advertising model into chatbots.'
Big Tech deploys Orwellian doublespeak to mask its democratic corrosion | Peter Lewis
As AI asserts its power to shape social evolution, regulation is decried as ‘state control’ rather than the expression of our collective will
www.theguardian.com
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Many reported that they wanted more help from teachers for the appropriate use of AI and in judging whether its output was reliable. OUP said it is launching a new AI education hub aimed at supporting teachers.' 2/2
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Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner

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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
People preferred to get political information from an AI over both in-group and out-group sources!

This reveals that even when we like our own side, we may recognize their potential for bias in political contexts and turn to AI as a neutral alternative.
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/can-ai-hel...
Can AI Help Us Escape Our Echo Chambers?
Issue 183: Our latest research provides evidence that people see AI as a neutral source of political information and trust it over in-group or out-group members
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
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palfrey.org
Humans created AI, and we can still shape its future. That is why @macfound joined a broad coalition of our peers to launch Humanity AI, a new initiative to keep people at the center of our AI future.

Learn more: humanityai.ai
Home - Humanity AI
Our future with AI can and will be what we make it. Humanity AI is uniting philanthropy in a broad […]
humanityai.ai
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scottlgreer.bsky.social
this frightens me because not only does AI have biases from the training data, the business model of enshittification means they will want to make us dependent and then bias it. Look at e.g. the history of search.
jayvanbavel.bsky.social
People preferred to get political information from an AI over both in-group and out-group sources!

This reveals that even when we like our own side, we may recognize their potential for bias in political contexts and turn to AI as a neutral alternative.
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/can-ai-hel...
Can AI Help Us Escape Our Echo Chambers?
Issue 183: Our latest research provides evidence that people see AI as a neutral source of political information and trust it over in-group or out-group members
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
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Reposted by Rob Marchant

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ibioconsultants.com
Can #AI transform how we understand and protect nature? 🌍

AI maybe able to guide smarter, faster #biodiversity decisions, yet its potential remains untapped. Closing this “biodiversity decision gap” can help restoration. But is it really this simple?

YouTube via: aiforgood.itu.int/event/overco...
Overcoming the biodiversity decision gap with AI
The urgent need to halt biodiversity loss combined with technological improvements has sparked a revolution in conservation science, expanding our
aiforgood.itu.int
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redeyedjedi.bsky.social
What people who push "ai" are really thinking when they talk about "benefits"
illumi.meme
inventing a computer you can stick your dick into

Reposted by Diane Coyle

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repec-nep-ain.bsky.social
AI and jobs. A review of theory, estimates, and evidence: R. Maria del Rio-Chanona; Ekkehard Ernst; Rossana Merola; Daniel Samaan; Ole Teutloff
NEP/RePEc link
to paper
d.repec.org

Reposted by Greg Linden

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colinmurray.bsky.social
Grok has been fed a diet of raw Policy Exchange papers for days and now doesn't feel too great....
rolandmcs.bsky.social
Well, it's certainly *artificial* intelligence.
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whenisbirths.bsky.social
Creatively, the prospect of AI taking over is an exhausting, boring slog.
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pgourinchas.bsky.social
Other forces are at play: AI investment is booming, echoing the dot-com era, while China's property sector struggles and fiscal pressures mount. These dynamics create a complex, uneven recovery.

Reposted by Steve Peers

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explaintrade.com
I'm not a grand strategist but perhaps the US may regret putting all its economic eggs into a single AI basket it needs Chinese cooperation to weave.