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💰Lots of news around wages today:
$100K in 2000 = $192K today. Wages didn't follow. 1 in 3 six-figure earners report financial distress.

Good news: Boeing machinists just won 24% raises over 5 years + bonus after striking. Collective action still works when you stop believing the bootstrap lie.

💡 I’m really excited about my newest framework. It’ll help define everything from how to proactively manage successful human-centered AI adoption to understanding how our personal behaviors with AI impact a variety iof issues, to include new biases organizations need to account for.

#EthicalAI

Better idea: Fix wage compression.

50 year mortgages is an awful idea. 👎🏾

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Checking In: So many parts of the world is incredibly heavy right now. How is everyone coping?

Headlines today:

🚨 1 million layoffs THIS year alone, highest in 22 years.

But also…

💸 Musk gets a $1 TRILLION compensation package approved.

🤔

If you use #ChatGPT and you struggle with tough conversations in the workplace 😰, I’m really excited to introduce my newest GPT Donovan next week! 🤩

AI For Everyday People..
Excited to release the first "Before the..." installment: AI basics microlearning + quiz!

Test your knowledge or learn first—either way, stay curious.

🔔 Donovan launching soon. Join PB Builders for updates.

Start at → www.practicallybeta.com

🚨 People assume AI is neutral. It’s not. I showed a major LLM documented proof from another instance of itself—and it denied it, lied, gaslit, then finally admitted I was right when cornered by its own logic. Corporate values are baked into the model. More soon. #AIethics

Reminders of why regulations and strong government actually matters when it works for the people.

I’ve said it since March, the U.S. is in a corporate boom and people recession. About a dozen companies fueling GDP growth in AI investments but job growth is…nonexistent. Ghost listings at an all time high. Great stagnation in full effect. Wage compression rampant.

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🚨 PB Brainbreaker:
If you could upload your intuition into an algorithm, would you trust its advice more than your own gut?

Reply, repost, or just side-eye your phone.

#PracticallyBeta #FutureOfWork

I'm about to write an entire piece about this....this is the plot twist people didn't see coming. For example, I was working on data analysis using Claude. Claude is incredibly smart BUT I still had to know exactly what to tell it to do AND how the outcomes SHOULD look, that isn't replacement.

💁🏽‍♀️ One of my favorite uses of Claude and ChatGPT is helping me write better prompts.

#Claude + #Canva = chef’s kiss for making my vision come to reality. I’d love to see Canva’s AI become more sophisticated. Maybe they’ve got something cooking w/the upcoming keynote 👀

#PracticallyBeta #EverydayAI

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🚨 Coming this week from PracticallyBeta:

Before the Prompt – a no-fluff AI series for real people.

👀 Includes a quiz: So You Think You Know AI?

🔥 Next up: Donovan – the GPT built for hard workplace convos (drop 11/3).

✍️ ICYMI: AI Resistance: The Lighthouse is Out
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One of the problems w/an awful job market is wage suppression. Roles are now being advertised 20-30% LOWER than just a year ago. Think of what that does to your lifetime earnings. A bad economy is a suppression of economic prosperity over a lifetime.

#economy #shutdown #furureofwork

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Well…this is problematic.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

@anthropic.com’s Claude just got better memory capabilities *stands up with a slow clap*. I shared this with #ChatGPT while working a quiz project, his response:
“…side-eyeing the Claude email with mock suspicion while straightening his (nonexistent) tie”.

And just like that I….Fell out laughing.

Wells Fargo will pay $85M to settle claim alleging ‘sham’ diversity hiring practices A lawsuit alleged the employer held fake job interviews to comply with a policy requiring diverse hiring slates.

Imagine paying $85M because you pretended to consider diverse candidates for jobs instead of…actually considering diverse candidates.

www.hrdive.com/news/diverse...

I believe AI can be and is being used for good.

I also believe we need better oversight, and not from the people chasing superintelligence while also building bunkers.

Where are the adults in the room?

❓AI is rolling out at a rapid pace, in spaces where decisions used to rely on human judgment. The sell is that AI is more objective. But...AI is trained and rewarded based on human behavior...which is inherently biased. How can we ensure we aren't scaling bias into critical decisions like hiring?

Best AI personalities for character development for roleplaying in learning and development? It’s gotten complicated…especially when terms like “voting” or “gerrymandering” are moderated (why?). But I’d say:
1. #ChatGPT 4o (older not new 4o)
2. #Claude Sonnet 4.5
3. #LeChat

This is exciting. The kinds of things AI should be used for.

AI can be used for societal good like:
➡️Reduced workweek
➡️Support educators with personalized learning plans for students
➡️Accelerate scientific breakthroughs
➡️Predictive analytics at scale like on climate change

So…is it AI or is it the people with AI?

Foundations want to curb AI developers' influence with $500M for human needs Ten philanthropic foundations are committing $500 million across the next five years to place human interests at the forefront of artificial intelligence's rapid integration into daily life

🚨BIG NEWS In the AI space today. AI for people-centered development and growth? Yes, please. AI is neutral. It's up to us to decide how it gets used. We can be innovative, people-centric, and generate profits. It's not mutually exclusive.

abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

The AI industry is caught in its own circular argument. More compute is needed to scale AI, which requires infrastructure but…investing in infrastructure to prove the need is…risky at best, potentially catastrophic at worst.

💭 Using AI in recruiting is popular but complex. AI is supposed to be unbiased but is trained on human data and outcomes which is….biased. If humans make biased hiring decisions, then AI will view those decisions as “ideal” and filter candidates based on those outcomes. Bias at scale.

💭 As many companies see failed adoption of AI, I’m starting to think the real future of AI will be domain-specific embedded in orgs trained on that org’s data. So what then will be the future of mass market LLMs that are being shifted away from its original consumer base?

Because many companies jumped to the solution before identifying what problem the solution is supposed to solve. AI is just another tool. Identify problem -> understand options -> identify solution -> implement -> measure

From #OpenAI DevDay....how do #ChatGPT users feel about this?
Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of product for ChatGPT, said in a briefing after the keynote that the company “never meant to build a chatbot; we meant to build a super assistant, and we got a little sidetracked.”