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I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence

“Twenty-five years of software engineering experience, and I’d managed to degrade my skills to the point where I felt helpless looking at code I’d directed an AI to write.”

Great perspective on the limits of this technology.

#human #futureofwork

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With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady says its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge. Who is Grokipedia for, he asks, other than its owner?

Susannah Scaroni smiling in her racing wheelchair with an American flag draped across her back. A headline reads: "Susannah Scaroni Repeats As Champion in Women’s Wheelchair Race.” Photo by Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.

Susannah Scaroni repeated as champion in the women’s wheelchair race, winning her third New York City Marathon title. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4hBsblg

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

Half a million jobs being automated by #amazon

#automation #automationprone #futureproof #robotproof #futureofwork #medianhuman

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An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

Key takeaway,

“GenAI adoption in industry is overwhelmingly aimed at automating and replacing human effort, often with the expectation that future “AGI” will render human intellectual and creative labor obsolete.”

#automation #jobs #work #futureofwork

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How Amazon Is Laying Off Some Workers While Spying on Others As the company lays off thousands workers, a new DAIR report reveals how Amazon surveills and punishes its delivery drivers

Double trouble at Amazon with layoffs and spying.

Corporate greed or the new norm 🤷‍♂️

#toxicworkplace
#automation
#AiLayoffs

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Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI—and even teachers make the list | Fortune Sorry, Gen Z: AI is coming for safe and secure teaching jobs, as well as grad roles.

#automation #algorithmication
#aiproof #robotproof

Insights on the least and most impacted jobs from automation from robotics and AI

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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial Editorial: Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the future

“Last month, the Trades Union Congress published a “worker-first” strategy for AI, noting that “unmanaged disruption is not inevitable or acceptable”.”

#jobs #AI #automation #workers

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Is AI Killing Entry-Level Jobs? Here’s What We Know Job postings have plunged and unemployment is up for young people, yet new research suggests an emerging paradox in which AI may expand access in some fields.

Youth unemployment is up and much of it is due to tech.

Some fields may be worth exploring - if you can get past the paywall 💸

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AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

“AI output, according to interviewees, often being homogeneous, blind to local details, or flat-out wrong. Nuances about places and cultures, recognizable to a knowledgeable human interpreter risk disappearing, sanded down by blunt-force automation.”

#jobs

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This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children.

Pay all workers a living wage.

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

This report identifies a 13% drop in “AI exposed occupations” (we prefer the term automation prone)

The impact on “early career workers” is concerning

#careers #jobs #medianhuman

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Manpower discloses data breach affecting nearly 145,000 people Manpower, one of the world's largest staffing companies, is notifying nearly 145,000 individuals that their information was stolen by attackers who breached the company's systems in December 2024.

Manpower #staffing company is notifying nearly 145,000 individuals that their information was stolen by attackers who breached the company's systems in December 2024

#manpower #experis #TalentSolutions #hiring #jobs #work #databreach #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

I'm working pruning citrus trees

"Eloy" is pruning citrus trees in CAs SJ Valley. He works 6-7 hrs/day. He shares: When it's hot, it feels very humid in the rows. When we pull dry branches from the tree we get scratches on our arms & hands. It's tough work, but it feeds my family. #WeFeedYou

AI is not just a theoretical disruptor. It's already here—subtly augmenting some roles, quietly automating others, and rapidly altering the calculus of employment, wages and urban economic resilience. One path leverages AI to build a fairer, smarter workforce, while the other allows silent displacement to undercut economic inclusion and dignity of work.

“Healthcare Support, Management, and Healthcare Practitioners—occupations with minimal AI uptake—are the only sectors experiencing headcount growth in NYC since 2019.”

#careers #jobs

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Thoughtful analysis on the impact of #AI on the #workforce

#jobs #unemployment #skills

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This post is a reminder of how much language matter. | Maria Luciana A. This post is a reminder of how much language matter. In one of his posts Brendan McCord highlights the problematic the language of one part of the AI community (check his post in the comments). Bre...

Language does matter. Popular post on LinkedIn covering this phenomenom.

#medianhuman #careers #ai

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‘I’ve £90k in student debt – for what?’ Graduates share their job-hunting woes amid the AI fallout AI isn’t just taking away entry-levels jobs, it’s helping thousands apply for the same job with almost the same CV

“Coupled with what AI can offer now, there are few reasons left to hire graduates for many positions, which is reflected in recent [labour market] reports”

#jobs #careers

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‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI From a radio host replaced by avatars to a comic artist whose drawings have been copied by Midjourney, how does it feel to be replaced by a bot?

"Even the Indonesian government is using AI art: they recently released a video promoting a scheme that provides free lunches for students. It’s a great initiative, but it breaks my heart that they used AI instead of commissioning a talented Indonesian artist."

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L’Usine Bleu

Chic workwear for your inner worker

#workers #dignity

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The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

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'AI is already eating its own': Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct Three years into the boom, it looks like AI is reshaping existing jobs more than creating new ones.

Anyone predicting a wave of new AI jobs might care to read this article by Fast Company.

Automation prone workers need to build skills that are durable, not easily replaced by technology and pay a living wage.

#AI #automation #work

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Not a solution for mass unemployment, but a handy case study on how to think about your future career

#AI #careers #work

Did AI kill your job? If so, I want to hear about it. Send your story to AIKilledMyJob@pm.me

We have been reading Blood in the Machine - a book that captures todays zeitgeist perfectly.

Now the author, Brian Merchant, wants to hear your AI job destroying stories - see link below.

#careers #jobs #AI

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Thanks to Brian Merchant and his excellent book, Blood in the Machine, Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein can be read through the lens of technology and the responsibility of inventors to own their creations.

#technology #responsibility

Median Human website MedianHuman is a mentoring and training service for humans. Median Human is the baseline for AGI and as such as a direct threat to millions of jobs globally

We just refreshed the video section on our website, including a video from the legendary Andrej Karpathy.

Take the MedianHuman Benchmark to see how exposed to automation and algorithmation of the workplace.

#automation #jobs #luddite #careers

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How to Survive the A.I. Revolution The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

Learn more on why the Luddites were not who you thought.

A story we all thought we knew, offering context for the automation and algorithm cycle underway

#luddite #futureofwork

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