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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 27, 2026
Business Latest | What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI by Elena Betti AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, frames artificial intelligence not merely as a technological advance but as a powerful, invisible infrastructure reshaping society, economics, and morality. Echoing the Catholic social doctrine of *Rerum Novarum*, the Pope warns that the concentration of digital platforms, data, and algorithms in the hands of a few amplifies inequalities, threatens human dignity, manipulates truth, endangers meaningful work, and even jeopardizes the ethics of warfare by delegating lethal decisions to machines. He calls for “disarming technology” – stripping AI of monopolistic control, ensuring transparency, and making it accessible to a plurality of actors – so that it serves the common good rather than becoming a tool of economic, political, or military domination. The encyclical stresses the need for cultural and educational efforts to help people recognize these mechanisms, emphasizing that the decisive issue is not the technology itself but who governs it and under what vision of humanity. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/what-pope-leo-xivs-first-encyclical-says-about-the-power-of-ai/ #PopeLeo #CatholicChurch #MagnificaHumanitas #AI #business_artificialintelligence #LeoXIV
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 27, 2026
Feed: All Latest | Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else by WIRED Staff AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. WIRED describes itself as a forward‑looking publication that “is obsessed with what comes next,” delivering rigorous investigations and game‑changing reporting to tell stories that not only reflect the present moment but also help shape it. By mapping the people, products, and ideas defining today, WIRED aims to become the source future readers look back on to understand how current forces forged tomorrow’s world. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-or-die-trying/ #WIRED #business_artificialintelligence #requiredlearning
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 27, 2026
Feed: All Latest | To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant by Joel Khalili AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. AI labs such as DeepMind and Anthropic are increasingly hiring philosophers to help navigate ethical edge‑cases, value alignment, fairness, misinformation, and the broader moral implications of advanced AI systems; these in‑house philosophers—including figures like Iason Gabriel, Amanda Askell, and Julia Haas—work on projects ranging from drafting model “constitutions” to designing frameworks for testing moral competence in large language models, while academia remains wary that corporate employment may turn philosophy into a marketing tool or limit scholarly independence; nevertheless, practitioners argue that direct access to cutting‑edge models gives them a unique perspective for shaping responsible AI development, sparking an ongoing debate over whether embedding philosophers in the corporate AI sphere ultimately improves safety and ethics. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/to-land-a-job-in-ai-try-reading-kant/ #IasonGabriel #AmandaAskell #DeepMind #Anthropic #business_artificialintelligence #JuliaHaas
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 27, 2026
Feed: All Latest | AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World by Kate Knibbs AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article examines the rapid rise of AI‑driven debt‑collection callers, illustrated by a real‑life exchange in which a man named Ben talks with an automated agent called “Eve” from ProCollect, only to discover the bot can handle personal details, role‑play, and even transfer to a human when it hits a “vulnerability signal.” As inflation drives up delinquency, companies are deploying voice bots that can make thousands of calls around the clock, personalize tone and language, and claim to be more polite and less embarrassing for borrowers. Startups such as Altur, Domu, Moveo, and Floatbot are scaling these agents—most of which use female voices—to cut costs, while legal experts warn about compliance risks and the potential for even harsher, unlimited pressure on debtors. The piece also notes that borrowers are beginning to use AI tools like ChatGPT to script their own negotiations, suggesting a future where both sides of the debt‑collection conversation are increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-takes-over-debt-collection/ #ProCollect #KaplanGroup #Altur #ChatGPT #business_artificialintelligence #Ben
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 22, 2026
Feed: All Latest | The Gulf’s AI Boom Has an Undersea Cable Problem by Chris Hamill-Stewart AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The Gulf’s push to become an AI powerhouse is being hampered by its reliance on a few vulnerable undersea cables that carry the majority of international data through risky chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. As hyperscalers demand the same high‑resilience, low‑latency connectivity they enjoy on transatlantic routes, any cable cut—like the 2025 Red Sea incident that cost $3.5 billion—could cripple the region’s emerging compute‑export model. Gulf nations are therefore planning a multilayered diversification strategy that includes new terrestrial fiber corridors across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Jordan and the Levant, subsea‑terrestrial hybrids bypassing Egyptian chokepoints, and northern overland routes through Iraq, Syria and Turkey, alongside satellite backup. Projects such as Saudi‑backed SilkLink and the Iraq‑UAE WorldLink aim to create additional east‑west pathways, reducing dependence on maritime routes, while satellite links provide redundancy despite lower bandwidth. Ultimately, the Gulf is redefining cross‑border connectivity from a mere data conduit to a strategic asset whose resilience will shape the future of AI‑driven economies. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/the-gulfs-ai-boom-has-an-undersea-cable-problem/ #SaudiArabia #UAE #StraitofHormuz #RedSea #business_artificialintelligence
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 15, 2026
Business Latest | An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta by Paresh Dave AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta employees in the US and UK are rallying against the company’s new Model Capability Initiative—a mandatory tool that records keystrokes, mouse movements and screen activity to collect data for training AI systems. An internal post by an engineer, seen by thousands of coworkers, described the software as a privacy invasion and warned it could set dangerous norms for how workers are exploited for AI training. The post sparked a petition demanding an end to the non‑consensual data extraction, fueling low morale, union‑organizing efforts—particularly in the UK—and widespread protests such as flyers and delayed installations, as staff question the legality and ethics of employer‑driven surveillance for AI development. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-employee-protest-mouse-tracking-surveillance-ai-training/ #Meta #ModelCapability #Wired #UnitedTech #AlliedWorkers #business #business_artificialintelligence #internalunrest
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 15, 2026
Business Latest | The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial by Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article examines the broader fallout from the Musk v. Altman trial, arguing that regardless of who wins, the real losers are the employees, policymakers, and public who supported OpenAI’s original nonprofit mission. While the trial focuses on whether Elon Musk’s $38 million investment was conditioned on charitable use and whether OpenAI’s shift to a for‑profit model violated that intent, the case highlights how both Musk and Sam Altman have treated the nonprofit structure as a convenient vehicle for building the world’s leading AI lab, even as it morphed into a multibillion‑dollar company. Critics, including former researchers and nonprofit advocates, contend that the nonprofit façade no longer protects the public interest; OpenAI’s massive funding, aggressive pursuit of AGI, and legal battles over safety, liability, and copyright suggest it now operates much like any profit‑driven tech giant. The trial thus underscores a deeper tension between the declared mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits humanity and the commercial realities that have come to dominate the organization. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/musk-v-altman-trial-closing-arguments/ #ElonMusk #SamAltman #JillHorwitz #DanielKokotajlo #OpenAI #GoogleDeepMind #Northwestern #business #business_artificialintelligence #modelbehavior
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 14, 2026
Business Latest | Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale by Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, Zoë Schiffer AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta is preparing to cut about 10 % of its workforce—roughly 8,000 jobs—adding to the 25,000 layoffs announced over the past four years, and employees describe the atmosphere as “historically low” morale, with unhappiness widespread except among senior executives. The dip in morale stems from a combination of factors: shrinking compensation (share‑based raises cut for two consecutive years), widening pay gaps, costly AI initiatives, mandatory installation of tracking software that records U.S. staff’s keyboard and mouse activity to train internal AI models, and recent legal setbacks that highlighted the company’s product harms. Workers are protesting the AI surveillance, some are trying to form a UK union with United Tech & Allied Workers, and many hope to be laid off to collect severance and health benefits. While Meta’s ad business continues to generate strong profits—nearly $27 billion in Q1—the company is simultaneously spending billions on AI talent and infrastructure, creating tension between high‑level financial performance and the everyday experience of employees who feel pressured, undervalued, and uncertain about their future. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/ #Meta #AndrewBosworth #UnitedTech #AlliedWorkers #ModelCapability #AppliedAI #aipilled #business #business_artificialintelligence
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TheBadPlace
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · May 13, 2026
Business Latest | Everyone at the Musk v. Altman Trial Is Using Fancy Butt Cushions by Paresh Dave AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. At the Musk v. Altman trial, both plaintiffs and defense have finished presenting their cases, but the courtroom’s most noticeable feature has been the abundance of butt cushions and pillows used by participants. Hard wooden benches on the right side, reserved for OpenAI and Microsoft lawyers and executives—including CEO Sam Altman and general counsel Che Chang—have been equipped with thick, black cushions from the brand Purple, while OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife have relied on white throw pillows from Coop. Even an OpenAI bodyguard brought a purple handbag with extra pillows for the Brockmans, and other attendees, such as reporters and the courtroom artist, have resorted to various cushions to ease the discomfort of the long‑lasting trial. Although not a customary courtroom practice, these cushions have become a practical response to the near‑full capacity of the courtroom and the extended hours of sitting. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/fancy-butt-pillows-musk-v-altman-trial/ #SamAltman #GregBrockman #JudgeRogers #OpenAI #business_artificialintelligence #YvonneGonzalezRogers #CheChang #JoshuaAchiam
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