Christine Glancey

Great to share a stage with human rights titan Ken Roth, Rana Sabbagh & @cglancey.bsky.social today @journalismfestival.com.

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Desperate for work, translators train the AI that’s putting them out of work Translators in Turkey are at risk of being replaced by LLMs, and having diminished skills and fewer career options for all but elite scholars.

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Pakistan’s electric rickshaws are accelerating the country’s EV revolution Automaker Sazgar is focused on meeting local needs as Pakistan pushes for EV adoption, but high costs remain a barrier for some drivers.

At @restofworld.org, we've regularly written about how three-wheelers are leading the EV revolution in emerging markets.

Today's story is from Pakistan, where the country's top rickshaw maker is pioneering e-rickshaws, hoping to make them a mainstream option.

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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties.”
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Teens across Asia migrate to Taiwan for promises of semiconductor jobs Student-interns are paid for low-skill factory tasks and spend little time in the classroom.

Taiwan supplies 63% of the world’s semiconductors, creating a massive demand for workers in its chip plants.

Middle-school graduates from Vietnam and the Philippines, some as young as 15, are recruited through a “3+4 Vocational Education Program.”

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Nonstop Earthquakes Leave Santorini Empty and Its Residents on Edge Thousands of tremors, sometimes every few minutes, have shaken Santorini, Greece. More than 13,000 of its 15,500 inhabitants have left.

After another week of near-constant earthquakes on Santorini, Greece, the island has taken on an unusual quiet. At least 13,000 of the island’s 15,500 residents, unnerved by the frequent shaking, have left in the past week.

Vietnam’s military-run postal service is building robots to deliver on the country’s e-commerce boom From warehouse sorting robots to delivery drones, Viettel Post is pinning its hopes on tech as the salve to an inefficient logistics sector.

Vietnam’s military-run postal service is building its own robots to deliver on the country’s e-commerce boom, reports @lamle52.bsky.social for @restofworld.org
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