AI in education offers extraordinary potential but demands safeguards for student privacy, teacher authority and parental rights before deployment in classrooms.

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Tristan Harris' Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going'Founder-Led' The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED. The Center for Humane Technology, the online safety group cofounded by former Google product manager Tristan Harris and featured in the hit documentary, is laying off about half of its 16 non-founder employees, ex-staffers tell WIRED. The organization is ending its policy research and litigation work to focus instead on what it calls " founder-led " projects. The nine departures, which include executive director Julie Guirado and senior director of strategy Camille Carlton, arrive shortly after the center scored a series of major courtroom victories against social media companies . The lawsuits drew on its research alleging that the platforms were deliberately designed to keep kids glued to their screens.

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AI data centers face 34 ballot measures across eight states as voters weigh the environmental impact and economic costs of the massive facilities powering America's AI boom.

One employee says the system can mean their work is monitored by AI for seven hours a day as they handle inquiries, often from bereaved customers. One employee says the system can mean their work is monitored by AI for seven hours a day as they handle inquiries, often from bereaved customers. 'Dystopian': Co-op becomes latest firm to put staff under AI surveillance Thu 8 Oct 2026 05.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 8 Oct 2026 06.04 EDT The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology that rates every phone call some of them make to customers. In a system described as "oppressive and dystopian" by a whistleblower, Co-op Legal Services is using AI models to record, analyse and award a percentage score for interactions between agents and customers seeking advice about probate, wills and estates. A model from OpenAI has been trained to assess more than 50 discrete aspects of each phone call and provide pass and fail scores to managers who use the data to analyse employee performance.

The International Trade Centre (ITC), a joint World Trade Organization and United Nations agency that has trained digital workers in Kakuma, estimates jobs such as transcription, data entry, translation and web research have declined by about 50% since 2022, said ITC spokesperson Susanna Pak. Oxford Internet Institute research similarly shows that growth of popular AI tools coincided with a measurable drop in many of the tech jobs promoted as paths to refugee self-sufficiency. Merci Biamungu, a refugee trained in 3D modeling, said he regularly received opportunities with guaranteed pay throughout 2023 and 2024. However, in one of his final projects, he and 20 other workers competed in teams of five to design a 3D model of a potato. The best-performing group received a reward of 15,000 Kenyan shillings, or about $116, split among the five. Now, the AI tools that Biamungu believes he helped train can build 3D images faster, eliminating the need for workers like him, he said. It's now been two years since Biamungu has found remote work in tech.

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