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Michael Schuman / The Atlantic: China has made AI a national mission, but local workers’ fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down  —  A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one.  —  anxiety about ai in the United States appears to

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Sarah Neville / Financial Times: Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness  —  The technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care.  Kayla Secrest was a newly fledged doctor beginning … Source link

Ken Bensinger / New York Times: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post  —  Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don’t disclose that they were paid to

New York Times: Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself  —  A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system.

María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax”  —  President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with

New York Times: Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed  —  About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment. Source link

Wired: Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock’s ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee  —  As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned. Source link