CBS News Poll Analysis on What Things AI, Rather than People, Should Do

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy

On Jan. 11, 1994, I drove to UCLA’s Royce Hall to hear Vice President Al Gore deliver the keynote address at the Information Superhighway Conference. I was in the early stages of building Intertainer, which would become one of the first video-on-demand companies. The 2,000 people crowded into that auditorium did not know it, but they were crossing a threshold. The roster of speakers read like a who’s who of industrial power: TCI’s John Malone, R…

Marshall McLuhan Was Right About Claude, Too

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What ‘The AI Doc’ Filmmakers Want Everyone to Know About AI: ‘There Probably Isn’t an Off Switch’

When the filmmakers behind “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” set out to investigate the dawn of the age of artificial intelligence, they couldn’t predict what the next two-and-a-half years would have in store. The Focus Features documentary, in theaters now, explores the intersection of AI development and its impact on humanity […]

Recruitment experts discuss impact of AI and employment law

A panel event has explored the evolving world of recruitment.

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AI's arrival complicates Big Tech climate goals, and some worry it's locking in more fossil fuels

Tech companies set ambitious climate goals at the start of the decade, promising to slash emissoins that contribute to global warming