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Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Gotta love it - this may be the only use of smoke signals in this day and age of instant communications!

Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.

A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals.

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AI safety advocates slam Trump administration’s reported targeting of standards agency The U.S.’s fledgling AI Safety Institute is reportedly about to be gutted by mass layoffs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

CDT CEO @alexreevegivens.bsky.social: “Eliminating the AI Safety Institute would do nothing to make U.S. AI companies more competitive—and would undermine efforts to make sure that AI tools are safe and effective.” fortune.com/2025/02/...

Join 92NY for a Newmark Civic Life Series event on law and democracy in the Trump Era with @lauracoates.com @preetbharara.bsky.social Neal Katyal and Thane Rosenbaum. www.92ny.org/event/how-we...

Participatory AI? Begin with the Most Affected People | TechPolicy.Press Meg Young writes that both firms and governments tend to centralize decision-making power and deploy a single system at scale.

In the first of a series of essays from participants in the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS) that preceded the Paris AI Action Summit, Meg Young writes that both firms and governments tend to centralize decision-making power and deploy a single system at scale.

Beyond the Façade: Challenging and Evaluating the Meaning of Participation in AI Governance | TechPolicy.Press AI governance today is not merely a site of contestation but of outright corporate capture, writes Jonathan van Geuns.

As part of a series of essays from participants in the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS) that preceded the Paris AI Action Summit, Jonathan van Geuns writes that the crisis in AI governance isn't just about flawed AI. It's about corporate capture of governance.

Musk's claim that just 10% of US aid reaches recipients is absurd. @cgdev lays out the facts:
- US gov costs are just 10%
- Rest reaches recipients mostly thru US corps/nonprofits + multilateral agencies
- ~10% goes thru foreign organizations
www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

This whole thread ties together the takeover of the Federal payment system and other actions.