AI Hammers in the Final Nail in Karl Marx’s Coffin
The machine was supposed to begin by replacing the worker. Artificial intelligence is beginning by replacing the people who sit near the middle and top of organizations.
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Woolworths Has an AI Bouncer
Applicants told to defeat AI bouncer before earning the right to stack yoghurt.
Opportunity Cost in the Age of AI
The challenge, then, isn’t to beat the machines but to learn to work meaningfully alongside them. Every major leap in technology has shifted what counted as valuable work, and this one is no different.
How To Ensure a Harmonious Future With AI
The possibility of creating an after-death sentient AI agent raises some thorny questions. The option would only be easily available to the rich. The idea of a brutal dictator having the power to live forever is very frightening.
I Wouldn’t Trust OpenClaw
In my considered opinion it is an incredibly useful piece of software but I could never ever trust it. And I strongly recommend you don’t either.
The Road to Hell Goes via BT
After spending Christmas sick, alone and offline, Jane Hewland says her saga with British Telecom shows what happens when humans defer to systems and AI – where scripts rule and a 10-minute fix takes a month.
The Superhighway to Serfdom
Is this how the real robot apocalypse begins? A Centerlink clanker issuing grants to NDIS “Learing” Centres in my name, forever? Naturally, the government is handing over billions of our cash to something that’s yet to return any investment, anywhere, ever.
AI Buries Global Change Notions
You listening Chris Luxon? “Politicians welcomed the chance to blame others: if a wildfire or a flood devastates your town, point the finger at the changing climate rather than your own failure to prepare.”
The Machines Are Here
AI wargaming and battle management for NATO. How three experiments show the future of human-machine teaming in combat, strategy, and command.
I Told You So
This isn’t all bad news. Just like the internet took away many jobs, it has created far more new jobs and new opportunities.
Electricity Prices Are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
The Racial Hypocrisy of ChatGPT
I assumed, given the no-stereotypes mode, that ChatGPT would also refuse to generate images of a “typical Englishman”. But I was wrong.
Power Isn’t Moving Fast Enough
To lead in the AI age, America will need more than chips and capital. It needs clearer rules, faster transactions between energy producers and AI developers, and a system that rewards coordination just as much as production.