Daron Acemoglu is more cautious than most about predictions of a jobs apocalypse. Here’s what’s worrying him instead. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To ...

Modern recruiting is marked by an “algorithmic monoculture” in which only a small number of vendors supply applicant screening algorithms, Stanford researchers said.

AI has long been used to aid scientific discovery, an ambition with deep roots in the history of the field 1,8,9,10,11. Before the rise of large language models (LLMs), AI was limited to helping with ...

In 1869, a group of Massachusetts reformers persuaded the state to try a simple idea: counting. The Second Industrial Revolution was belching its way through New England, teaching mill and factory ...

When Pinterest and Dow announced layoffs last month, they attributed the job cuts in part to a shift to artificial intelligence — a sign that some employers are stepping up their investment in AI as ...

When ChatGPT launched in 2022, Jen Roberts had been teaching middle or high school students for more than 26 years and was running on fumes. The pandemic had pushed many educators into burnout, but ...

“It’s probably the best time to be a philosopher since Aristotle was hired as tutor to Alexander the Great,” says Henry Ajder, a philosophy postgraduate who advises the UK government and a slew of ...

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