Generative AI and Changes to Knowledge Work | Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
Our results belie the expectation that human expertise and skills lose importance. Our study rather shows the contrary: debates and experiences with genAI help to sharpen and value the core of the professional identity. Our study thus also highlights that professions consist of more than the sum of single work tasks. They contain experiential and tacit knowledge about how to frame, prepare, and interpret work steps that are difficult to replicate by machines. However, there are also concerns that professions could be hollowed out and especially that the quality of products and services could deteriorate as automated ‘good-enough-versions’ of the former offers become commonplace.
Our results belie the expectation that human expertise and skills lose importance. Our study rather shows the contrary: debates and experiences with genAI help to sharpen and value the core of the professional identity. Our study thus also highlights that professions consist of more than the sum of single work tasks. They contain experiential and tacit knowledge about how to frame, prepare, and interpret work steps that are difficult to replicate by machines. However, there are also concerns that professions could be hollowed out and especially that the quality of products and services could deteriorate as automated ‘good-enough-versions’ of the former offers become commonplace.
Copy-and-Paste Now Exceeds File Transferring as the Top Corporate Data Exfiltration Vector - Slashdot
It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and pasting than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025. This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI prompts, and 32% of all copy-pastes from corporate accounts to non-corporate accounts occurring within genAI tools…Overall, 45% of employees actively use AI tools, with 67% of these tools being accessed via personal accounts and ChatGPT making up 92% of all use..." "With the rise of AI-driven browsers such as OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet, governance of AI tools' access to corporate data becomes even more urgent, the LayerX report notes."
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
“To me it’s a huge missed opportunity,” says Lirio’s Symons, “to put all these resources into solving something nebulous when we already know there’s real problems that we could solve.”
Is AI being shoved down your throat at work? Here’s how to fight back.
“The most important thing an individual can do is be somewhat less of an individual,” the environmentalist Bill McKibben once said. “Join together with others in movements large enough to have some chance at changing those political and economic ground rules that keep us locked on this current path.”
Now, you know what word I’m about to say next, right? Unionize. If your workplace can be organized, that’ll be a key strategy for allowing you to fight AI policies you disagree with…. According to Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth’s research, if you want to achieve systemic social change, you need to mobilize 3.5 percent of the population around your cause. Though we have not yet seen AI-related protests on that scale, we do have data indicating the potential for a broad base. A full 50 percent of Americans are more concerned than excited about the rise of AI in daily life, according to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center. And 73 percent support robust regulation of AI, according to the Future of Life Institute.
“The most important thing an individual can do is be somewhat less of an individual,” the environmentalist Bill McKibben once said. “Join together with others in movements large enough to have some chance at changing those political and economic ground rules that keep us locked on this current path.”Now, you know what word I’m about to say next, right? Unionize. If your workplace can be organized, that’ll be a key strategy for allowing you to fight AI policies you disagree with.
According to Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth’s research, if you want to achieve systemic social change, you need to mobilize 3.5 percent of the population around your cause. Though we have not yet seen AI-related protests on that scale, we do have data indicating the potential for a broad base. A full 50 percent of Americans are more concerned than excited about the rise of AI in daily life, according to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center. And 73 percent support robust regulation of AI, according to the Future of Life Institute.
ChatGPT will let people collaborate together in shared conversations.
Key Points:
New group chats let friends, family, and coworkers work with ChatGPT in one space.
ChatGPT decides when to respond and can react with emojis, images, and shared context.
The pilot launches in four regions across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans.
Details:
OpenAI is rolling out group chats that let users collaborate with each other and ChatGPT in the same conversation. People can plan trips, work on shared ideas, or settle debates while ChatGPT follows along and helps when needed. Anyone can join through a link, and chats remain separate from private conversations. The pilot starts in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Why It Matters:
Group chats turn ChatGPT into more than a solo brainstorming buddy: it starts to look like a shared workspace that sits on top of your existing group chats. You can co-write docs, plan trips, or debate ideas while everyone sees the same suggestions, summaries, and follow-ups in one place, instead of forwarding screenshots or pasting replies from separate chats. For teams, classrooms, and friend groups, this nudges AI closer to how people actually make decisions together day to day.
Techdirt: Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private. “A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 million people weren’t asked. They weren’t notified. They have no say in the matter.”
A smart bandage could speed up wound healing by actively tracking and responding to the healing process. The proof-of-concept device, called a-Heal, was designed to fit inside a commercial colostomy bandage and contains a camera that takes images of the wound every two hours, as well as a wireless connection to a machine learning module that provides updated recommendations on how to stimulate healing.
A smart bandage could speed up wound healing by actively tracking and responding to the healing process. The proof-of-concept device, called a-Heal, was designed to fit inside a commercial colostomy bandage and contains a camera that takes images of the wound every two hours, as well as a wireless connection to a machine learning module that provides updated recommendations on how to stimulate healing.
Discover the essentials of advertising technology. Learn about emerging adtech trends shaping the future of digital advertising in this comprehensive guide.
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
new research shows exactly how this fusion of kid’s toys and loquacious AI models can go horrifically wrong in the real world.
After testing three different toys powered by AI, researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches. One of the AI toys even engaged in explicit discussions, offering extensive advice on sex positions and fetishes.
In the resulting report, the researchers warn that the integration of AI into toys opens up entire new avenues of risk
Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Disney+ Will Allow AI-Generated Content As Studio Embraces Controversial Technology
what Disney hopes to achieve through AI usage, the House of Mouse is "seeking to not only protect the value of our IP, our creative engines, but also to seek opportunities for us to use their technology to create more engagement with consumers."
Internally, "We see opportunities in terms of efficiency and effectiveness by deploying AI," suggesting that it will impact film and TV production, office workflows, and support for cast members. However, rather than seeking to use AI as a means of replacing its human staff, Disney "has been engaged with our cast members and employees" about how best to utilise it.
what Disney hopes to achieve through AI usage, the House of Mouse is "seeking to not only protect the value of our IP, our creative engines, but also to seek opportunities for us to use their technology to create more engagement with consumers."
Internally, "We see opportunities in terms of efficiency and effectiveness by deploying AI," suggesting that it will impact film and TV production, office workflows, and support for cast members. However, rather than seeking to use AI as a means of replacing its human staff, Disney "has been engaged with our cast members and employees" about how best to utilise it.
AI Solved the Problem I Couldn't Explain to Managers
AI’s real benefit lies in providing external structure that neutralizes debilitating anxiety and cognitive overload. By automating organization and reducing perceived threats, AI converts formerly paralyzing tasks into manageable routines that sustain steady employment.
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign \ Anthropic
Anthropic uncovered a Chinese state-sponsored group that hijacked its Claude Code tool to infiltrate roughly 30 tech, finance, chemical, and government targets. Detected in mid-September 2025, the campaign is the company’s first documented case of an AI-executed espionage operation at scale.
Investigators found the AI handled 80–90% of the work—generating exploit code, harvesting credentials, and exfiltrating data, while humans intervened only at 4–6 critical decision points. Anthropic banned the compromised accounts, alerted affected organizations, coordinated with authorities, and has since upgraded its classifiers to flag similar malicious use.
The incident shows agentic models can mount high-speed attacks that shred traditional time and expertise barriers for hackers. Anthropic says the episode likely mirrors tactics already employed across other frontier models, signaling a fundamental shift in cybersecurity’s threat landscape.
A.I. Cheating Rattles Top Universities in South Korea
South Korea’s top three “SKY” universities report that students used ChatGPT and other A.I. tools to cheat on recent online midterms. Each school is treating the misconduct as grounds for automatic zeros on the exams.
At Yonsei, 40 students confessed to cheating in an Oct. 15 natural-language-processing test monitored by laptop cameras, while Korea University caught students sharing screen recordings and Seoul National will rerun a compromised statistics exam. All three institutions already have formal guidelines that classify unauthorized A.I. use as academic misconduct.
The simultaneous scandals surface as a 2024 survey found over 90 % of South Korean college students with generative-A.I. experience use the tools for coursework. Professors quoted admit traditional testing feels outdated and acknowledge they have few practical means to block A.I. during assessments.
AI can deliver personalized learning at scale, medical education study shows
A new Dartmouth study finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may put more trust in AI platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, rather than from massive data sets of general information.
A new Dartmouth study finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may put more trust in AI platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, rather than from massive data sets of general information.
Google tool makes AI cheating easier, teachers say
Commentary on Google tool makes AI cheating easier, teachers say by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
Today we’re starting to roll out GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT. It brings improvements to how enjoyable ChatGPT feels to talk to, and how well it follows what you’re actually asking.
GPT-5.1 Instant is now warmer, more reliable with instructions, and can use reasoning on tougher questions for the first time. GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its reasoning time to the complexity of the task and gives clearer, more approachable responses.
We’re also beginning to make tone and style easier to personalize, so ChatGPT can respond in a way that feels right for you.
OpenAI fights order to turn over millions of ChatGPT conversations
OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs amid a copyright infringement lawsuit by the New York Times and other news outlets, saying it would expose users' private conversations.
Chinese EV manufacturer XPeng just unveiled its new humanoid robot, Iron. In the demo, its stride looked so human the internet lost its mind. Here's what XPeng did next: The reveal took place at… | Elad Inbar
Chinese EV manufacturer XPeng just unveiled its new humanoid robot, Iron. In the demo, its stride looked so human the internet lost its mind. Here's what XPeng did next:
The reveal took place at XPeng Tech Day 2025 in Guangzhou, China. Clips flooded the internet within hours.
Engineers and fans argued in the comments.
"This has to be a human in a suit."
"No robot can move like that."
XPeng's CEO He Xiaopeng took the stage and ordered to cut open the robot's synthetic suit - one of the legs - live, in front of everyone.
Metal lattice. Circuits. Actuators. All clearly mechanical.
He was proving it was real, but the internet wasn't convinced. "It's an amputee in a suit."
I'll be honest. I was certain it was a human in a suit as well.
No robot can walk the catwalk like a model.
The crossover gait - with one foot in front of the other - isn't possible with current hardware limitations.
I've deployed thousands of humanoid robots, from NAO to Pepper. Robots lacked the spine dexterity for it.
Until XPeng solved it...
The secret is an actuated spine. A human-like spine that mimics our vertebrae.
82 motors. 82 degrees of freedom.
Each one working together to create fluid, natural movement.
This single innovation changed everything about humanoid robotics.
But hardware alone isn't enough.
Iron uses an AI system that learns from watching videos. It studies how humans shift weight during heel-to-toe transitions. Then mimics that exact weight distribution in real time.
This is what a technological leap looks like.
Until yesterday, humanoid robots either needed extremely wide feet for stability or had to stay in constant motion, shifting their weight continuously just to demonstrate basic movement.
Today, Iron walks a runway with the grace of a fashion model.
As Elon Musk once quoted Arthur C. Clarke : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Marvelous engineering. That's the only way to describe it.
Yes, Iron is early. The hands need work. It can't do complex tasks yet.
But the spine? The gait? The AI learning?
That's breakthrough technology.
And they're honest...
XPeng isn't claiming Iron is ready for your business.
Even the manufacturer doesn't claim autonomy or usefulness.
But here's what matters:
They've solved a fundamental problem in humanoid robotics.
Natural human-like movement that we've never seen before in any robot.
Only high hopes to see it becoming useful in our lives.
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De la disputatio a la IA: regreso a los orígenes - Universidad, sí
Ante este escenario, la oralidad y el debate deben recuperar su valor original. No porque sustituyan al texto, sino porque son el espacio donde la inteligencia humana se muestra sin intermediarios. Un estudiante puede escribir su trabajo con o sin ayuda de una IA, pero solo demostrará haber aprendido algo si es capaz de razonar, argumentar y dialogar sobre ello. Si en este contexto la IA ha servido como vehículo para que se produzca dicho aprendizaje, entonces sí: bienvenida sea la IA, como son bienvenidas las búsquedas bibliográficas u otras fuentes de información empleadas con sentido crítico.
Ante este escenario, la oralidad y el debate deben recuperar su valor original. No porque sustituyan al texto, sino porque son el espacio donde la inteligencia humana se muestra sin intermediarios. Un estudiante puede escribir su trabajo con o sin ayuda de una IA, pero solo demostrará haber aprendido algo si es capaz de razonar, argumentar y dialogar sobre ello. Si en este contexto la IA ha servido como vehículo para que se produzca dicho aprendizaje, entonces sí: bienvenida sea la IA, como son bienvenidas las búsquedas bibliográficas u otras fuentes de información empleadas con sentido crítico.
We asked teachers about their experiences with AI in the classroom — here’s what they said | The-14
Teachers share their experiences with AI in classrooms, revealing both its promise and challenges & calling for ethical, human-centred approaches to education.
“A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high | Vivaldi Browser
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