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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using AI across public services

These people are exactly who can help us create change across the public sector giving us the hard truths on our approach to AI and advising where we need to prioritise our investment to support real efficiencies, said Murray, who added that their advice will feed into efficiency processes ahead of the next spending review.
UK politics
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

AI will create a tiny elite as the rest suffer, ex-Google boss warns

The world is teetering on the edge of an Artificial Intelligence ( AI) disaster in which a tiny elite class live in luxury while the majority suffer. That's according to Dex Hunter-Torricke, a former communications chief at Google's AI arm DeepMind, who has worked for Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Mr Hunter-Torricke, who is a non-executive board member of HM Treasury, wrote in an essay that Big Tech's leaders are driving society towards a radical and disastrous transformation.
Artificial intelligence
US politics
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti

Big Tech leaders hold White House influence yet stayed mostly silent after ICE killings; employees pressure CEOs to force ICE withdrawal and end contracts.
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US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

MPs should question consciences' on using X, says campaigner sanctioned by US

Big tech influence, especially Elon Musk's platform X, is fueling efforts to remove an anti-disinformation campaigner and raises ethical concerns for politicians using the platform.
Higher education
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Universities risk becoming passive arms of Silicon Valley if they don't question how AI shapes truth, a professor says

Universities risk losing intellectual autonomy by adopting Big Tech AI systems that reshape definitions of knowledge, truth, and academic values.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
2 months ago

The year journalism goes underground in America

Toxic media policy, libertarian big-tech, collapsing news business, online paranoia, and rising far-right movements have undermined conditions for a healthy free press.
San Francisco
from48 hills
4 months ago

Join us for Litcrawl's 'The Waymo That Ate San Francisco' - 48 hills

Independent journalists will perform humorous, provocative readings about San Francisco’s condition under Big Tech influence at Litquake’s Litcrawl, Sat/25 5–6pm at Teeth Bar, SF.
US politics
fromWIRED
5 months ago

Larry Ellison Is a 'Shadow President' in Donald Trump's America

Larry Ellison and his family are quietly consolidating immense political and data power, rivaling historic dynasties while remaining largely unseen in Washington.
Artificial intelligence
fromBig Think
6 months ago

Will AI create more jobs than it replaces?

Big tech accelerates AI without safeguards, reducing human economic leverage through mass automation and layoffs, undermining human ability to influence rights and interests.
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