Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

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Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

"As colleges and universities grapple with AI, cheating must be taken seriously, Serrano said. “We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK,” he said. “That leads to a declining society, to a failed society … We cannot choose to become idiots.”"

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Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

"Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators"

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The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

"Haidt’s work on emotion, culture and morality has been influential; and, in fairness, he admits that he is no specialist in clinical psychology, child development or media studies. In previous books, he has used the analogy of an elephant and its rider to argue how our gut reactions (the elephant) can drag along our rational minds (the rider). Subsequent research has shown how easy it is to pick out evidence to support our initial gut reactions to an issue. That we should question assumptions that we think are true carefully is a lesson from Haidt’s own work. Everyone used to ‘know’ that the world was flat. The falsification of previous assumptions by testing them against data can prevent us from being the rider dragged along by the elephant."

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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

"The simile struck me as unnervingly apt. Five years ago, LLMs were an exotic technology that was impossible to encounter without determined effort. Now they’re everywhere: on the internet, in our email inboxes, even in Google’s search results. I take King’s point that companies cannot reasonably be expected to eliminate every harm from a technology as powerful as AI: automobiles kill more than a million people a year, after all, and still we keep driving. But it’s one thing to keep a knife in a drawer with a cover snapped over the blade. It’s quite another to blanket every surface of our homes, classrooms and workplaces with blades while insisting that no one who isn’t using knives for everything will be able to survive the future."

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AI summaries of Tripadvisor hotel reviews downplay serious complaints, investigation finds | Travel & leisure | The Guardian

"AI summaries of Tripadvisor hotel reviews downplay serious complaints, investigation finds
AI-generated overview found to gloss over allegations of sexual harassment and describes hotel being sued over hygiene as ‘spotless’"

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New Zealand finally gets a Google Maps tool that correctly pronounces Māori placenames | Māori | The Guardian

"New Zealand finally gets a Google Maps tool that correctly pronounces Māori placenames
Language commission hails normalisation of te reo Māori after years of work in identifying frequently mispronounced words"

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Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds | Technology | The Guardian

"Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds
Poll finds use of AI tools for health advice is correlated with belief in vaccine falsehoods, such as shots causing autism"

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Palestine ecocide - Google Search

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Motorways with no speed limits and car-free town centres

"It is this problem which is, for me, the biggest and most legitimate justification for education technology. Technology can be a great equaliser. In its ability to deliver consistent quality at scale, it is perhaps the most democratic force in existence. The printing press made books available for the masses. Recorded music allows everyone to listen to world-class performances. The internet makes information freely accessible. These technologies have already helped democratise access to education, both inside and outside of traditional educational institutions.

But given that the variation problem remains, these technologies have not done enough. For many, it can seem as though the next step is a fully personalised screen-based education that cuts out the human teacher. Instead of learning in a traditional classroom with human teachers and paper-based materials, perhaps in the future students will learn using a combination of personalised devices, AI chatbots, eye-tracking technology and adaptive algorithms.

This is where I depart from the pro-technology line. I think we have to find ways of using technology to get scale, but for the majority of school education I don’t think that will involve kids sitting at screens."

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