yahoo news | 9 reasons AI isn’t going to take your job (yet)

Employers feel immense pressure to adopt AI and cut costs, yet the hype surrounding an imminent AI‑driven workforce overhaul is premature. History is full of wildly inaccurate forecasts: Geoffrey Hinton once claimed radiologists would be obsolete within five years, and Sergey Brin promised ubiquitous driverless cars by 2017—neither prophecy materialised. Today’s tech giants loudly warn of a “job‑pocalypse,” but their own data reveal a vast gap between imagined AI reach and actual deployment, with only a tiny fraction of projected tasks being handled by AI in practice.

Current AI systems are “jagged,” excelling at some narrow tasks while faltering at others, and they still make frequent, hard‑to‑detect mistakes. Their capabilities are largely confined to language, leaving visual‑intensive professions—interpreting charts, blueprints, maps, or physical work such as plumbing, carpentry, nursing, and cooking—far beyond reach. Even in seemingly straightforward domains like customer service, studies show fewer than 5 % of fully remote jobs can be satisfactorily performed by AI agents, underscoring that AI more often augments rather than replaces human labor.

Many layoffs blamed on AI are actually driven by financial pressures or over‑hiring, and some AI‑initiated reductions have proved temporary, as seen with Klarna’s brief reliance on AI agents before rehiring human staff. Overall, corporations’ AI investments have yielded modest productivity gains, suggesting that a dramatic shift in employment will likely require far more radical advances—perhaps a decade away. In the meantime, the sensible strategy is not to chase the myth of replacing workers, but to leverage AI as a tool that enhances the productivity of the people already on the payroll.

Read more: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/9-reasons-ai-isn-t-122549131.html

#ai #techgiants #customerservice #humanlabor #productivitygains

The Guardian | Washington state’s ‘historic’ millionaire tax takes aim at super-rich – will it succeed? by Andrew Gumbel

As living costs rise, the state where Gates and Bezos made billions is targeting top earners – could other states follow?

Noel Frame knows exactly how difficult it is to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy, because she has been trying to do just that – first as an activist, then as a state legislator – for the past 15 years. And until recently almost all of her efforts ended in failure.

She lives in Washington, a solid blue state that should, in theory, be hospitable to the idea of more progressive taxation and has plenty of multi-millionaires to target, since it is the home of Microsoft, Amazon and an array of other tech-driven corporations. While the wealth of these tech giants has grown exponentially in recent decades, the state – which levies no income taxes – has struggled to bring in enough revenue to pay for basic services like public schooling and long-term healthcare.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/washington-state-millionaire-tax-wealth

#thesuper-rich #washingtonstate #techgiants

God damnit, 2026 - you weren't supposed to make me root for the #Iranian regime. Ffs.

#Iran Includes #American #TechGiants on List of New Targets
https://gizmodo.com/iran-includes-american-tech-giants-on-list-of-new-targets-2000732530

Tech giants sign energy pledge at White House

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers. #bigtech #trump #datacenter #electricity #whitehouse #techgiants #energypledge #electrictycost #aiinfrastructure #usa #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow…

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Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.

https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email

#bigtech #degoogle #techgiants #Gmail

Apple is reportedly developing an AI‑wearable pin, aiming to outpace rivals like OpenAI as the H2 hardware race heats up. Insights from Davos and Chris Lehane suggest this could reshape personal AI. Curious how the tech giants plan to wear intelligence? Read the full scoop. #AIWearable #ApplePin #OpenAI #TechGiants

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