OpenAI’s website used to say the goal of AGI was to outperform human workers in every economically valuable activity. They’ve since toned down the rhetoric on replacing workers but the cat’s out of the bag.

Politicians need to figure out how to balance the only booming part of the economy against its long term goal of making human workers unemployed. So far the GOP is all-in on AI while the Dems are in disarray.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/28/ai-job-losses-populism-democrats-bernie-sanders-00706680

It's telling when invisible human workers whose job it is to proof 'AI' output, place no trust in it themselves.

One worker for Google was tasked to find the limits of the LLM software's historical breadth:

“I asked it about the history of the Palestinian people, and it wouldn’t give me an answer no matter how I rephrased the question"

And yet the same query for Israel was profuse with detail.

"We reported it, but nobody seemed to care at Google.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away

The kids are all right!
(a scene directly out of a @pluralistic story ...)

Activists Are Using ‘Fortnite’ to Fight Back Against ICE
https://www.wired.com/story/activists-are-using-fortnite-to-fight-back-against-ice/

📰 "For years, the EU has taken a leading role in creating standards that protect our rights online. But the winds have now shifted. […] A corporate-backed wave of weakening digital rules is underway that threatens all of our rights - on and offline."

👉 https://www.techpolicy.press/why-civil-society-is-sounding-the-alarm-on-the-eus-omnibus-rollback/

Taking a break from awful things:

Scientists taught rats to drive cars. The rats quickly learned to rev the engine and take longer routes just for fun.

Bonus: Watch the researcher do a little happy leap when the rat gets into the car.

https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-rats-to-drive-their-joy-suggests-how-anticipating-fun-can-enrich-human-life-239029 #science #tech