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How the Tech World Turned Evil

Timothy Noah The New Republic
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.

Trump Officials Built an AI Tool To Turbocharge Deregulation

Freddy Brewster and Luke Goldstein Convergence
Artificial intelligence has a history of making poor regulatory decisions with disastrous effects on people’s lives. Newly released documents show the Trump administration sought to deploy a powerful AI tool to accelerate its deregulation spree.

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

Matteo Wong The Atlantic
Mythos Preview appears to represent not an incremental change but the beginning of a paradigm shift. According to Anthropic, the bot has been able to find thousands of software bugs that had gone undetected, sometimes for decades.

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Mental Health Workers Fight for AI Protections in California

Cal Winslow Convergence
In Northern California, 2,400 mental health providers went on strike earlier this month against medical giant Kaiser Permanente. A major point of contention is Kaiser’s efforts to replace human-provided mental health care with artificial intelligence

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Four Union Strategies To Fight on A.I.

Keith Brower Brown Labor Notes
Photo of Nurses in red scrubs rallying . A.I is a management power grab, disguised as an inevitable technical upgrade. To fight it, workers can use four strategies proven in the past: name the real problem; unionize it; ransom it; and block it.
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