Worried AI means you won't get a job when you graduate? Here's what the research says
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has warned young people will suffer the most as an AI "tsunami" wipes out many entry-level roles in coming years.
For centuries, aspiring lawyers taught themselves the law. They did this by reading constitutions, statutes, law reports, and various books on the law. Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and countless other early American lawyers learned by "reading law" as it was called, usually under the tutelage o
Along with Larry Maguire, I have developed a series of five AI microlearning chapters that cover most of the functions that people want to use with Claude Co-work. The Claude Co-work training involves working with plugins that are comprehensive “role packages” that bundle together skills, commands, connectors, and manifests.
The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now
Are we in another acceleration phase for AI?Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeSilicon Valley relies on hype cycles. But for the past few weeks, AI insiders have been spooked by advances coming from their tools. On this week’s Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel helps listeners calibrate thei
WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site - Slashdot
WordPress has started rolling out an AI assistant built into its site editor and media library that can edit and translate text, generate and edit images through Google's Nano Banana model, and make structural changes to sites like creating new pages or swapping fonts.
Users can also invoke the as...
New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools - Slashdot
A new study [PDF] from Ramp's economics lab has found that businesses are steadily replacing freelance workers hired through platforms like Upwork and Fiverr with AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the substitution is happening at a fraction of the cost.
The paper, authored by Ryan Stevens, R...
AI Maker Magic, Part 1: A Fun Personality Quiz GPT – TCEA TechNotes Blog
Are you looking for something lighter than a rubric or pre/post test, but still useful in PD sessions? Perhaps you want to vibe code your way to a Discover how to create your own custom GPT for a fun personality quiz.
Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails - Slashdot
Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: According to a service alert seen by BleepingCom...
Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months - Slashdot
Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and longtime Universal Basic Income advocate, published a blog post this week warning that AI is about to displace millions of white-collar workers in the U.S. over the next 12 to 18 months, a wave he has taken to calling "the Fuckening."
Yang cited a...
Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters' Jobs, Hands It To an 'AI Rewrite Specialist' - Slashdot
Cleveland.com, the digital arm of Ohio's Plain Dealer newspaper, has removed writing from the workloads of certain reporters and handed that job to what editor Chris Quinn calls an "AI rewrite specialist" who turns reporter-gathered material into article drafts.
The reporters on these beats -- cov...
Google's AI Music Maker Is Coming To the Gemini App - Slashdot
Google is bringing its Lyria 3 AI music model into the Gemini app, allowing users to generate 30-second songs from text, images, or video prompts directly within the chatbot. The Verge reports: Lyria 3's text-to-music capabilities allow Gemini app users to make songs by describing specific genres, ...
AI Prompting Made Simple – #TSAE AI Conference – Another Think Coming
Welcome to my resources for the AI Prompting Made Simple session. This session was created for the TSAE AI Conference, but anyone can access the session resources. What’s more, you will find …
When AI Decides Your Care: The Governance Questions Every Stakeholder Should Be Asking — And Nobody Is
A investigation uncovered an AI tool used by a major insurer that denied more than 300,000 claims in two months. The denials were generated in minutes — faster than any human reviewer could read a single file. Most patients never appealed. They assumed the algorithm knew something their doctor did no
The True Price of Every ChatGPT Prompt | Earth Day
AI tools like ChatGPT rely on energy — and water-hungry data centers. As prompts soar, emissions rise, raising urgent questions about sustainable AI growth now.
There's a New Term for Workers Freaking Out Over Being Replaced by AI
No one's mental health improves when they are told constantly that they are about to lose their job.There isn’t a ton of evidence to suggest that the introduction of AI has led to significant job losses, yet. But it has led to a significant amount of …