Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
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The E.U. Has Passed the World's First Comprehensive AI Law
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Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty
AI and the American Smile
I have been waiting for a reason to write about the American smile for decades. And AI finally gave it to me: AI and the American Smile: How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression. Imagine a time traveler journeyed to various times and places throughout human history and showed soldiers and warriors of the periods what a “selfie” is.
150 AI Workers Vote to Unionize at Nairobi Meeting
Can't quite believe I'm writing this: Today, 150 African workers behind ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook voted to unionize at a landmark meeting in Nairobi. These AI workers are invisible, underpaid, and the backbone of the tech in all our pockets: https://twitter.com/billyperrigo/status/1653088692783960064