Palantir's Chief Technology Officer argues that artificial intelligence narratives mislead Americans, citing frontline experience to show AI empowers workers rather than replacing them.

On June 12, Alexandr Wang stepped down as Scale's CEO to chase his most ambitious moonshot yet: building smarter-than-human AI as head of Meta's new "superintelligence" division. As part of his move, Meta will invest 14.3 billion for a minority stake in Scale AI, but the real prize isn't his company--it's Wang himself. Wang, 28, is expected to bring a sense of urgency to Meta's AI efforts, which this year have been plagued by delays and underwhelming performance. Once the undisputed leader of open-weight AI, the U.S. tech giant has been overtaken by Chinese rivals like DeepSeek on popular benchmarks. Although Wang, who dropped out of MIT at 19, lacks the academic chops of some of his peers, he offers both insight into the types of data Meta's rivals use to improve their AI systems, and unrivaled ambition.

They say it's for all, but is it really?" So begins a 65-second, AI-generated animated video that touches on hot-button issues in the United States ranging from drug addiction and imprisonment rates to growing wealth inequality. As storm clouds gather over an urban landscape resembling New York City, the words "AMERICAN DREAM" hang in a darkening sky as the video ends. The message is clear: Despite its promises of a better life for all, the United States is in terminal decline. The video, titled American Dream or American Mirage, is one of a number of segments aired by Chinese state broadcaster CGTN – and shared far and wide on social media – as part of its A Fractured America animated series. Other videos in the series contain similar titles that invoke images of a dystopian society, such as American workers in tumult: A result of unbalanced politics and economy, and Unmasking the real threat: America's military-industrial complex. CGTN and the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC did not respond to requests for comment. The Fractured America series is just one example of how artificial intelligence (AI), with its ability to generate high-quality multimedia with minimal effort in seconds, is beginning to shape Beijing's propaganda efforts to undermine the United States' standing in the world. Henry Ajder, a UK-based expert in generative AI, said while the CGTN series does not attempt to pass itself off as genuine video, it is a clear example of how AI has made it far easier and cheaper to churn out content. "The reason that they've done it in this way is, you could hire an animator, and a voiceover artist to do this, but it would probably end up being more time-consuming.

Sorry for the long email first, but I have been paying attention to ChatGPT since last December. It can generate near-perfect Chinese based on the questions that users ask, including literature reviews, movie critiques, student essays, recommendation letters, etc. "The foreign policy of the Chinese government is aimed at safeguarding national security, development interests and international status, while advocating peace, development, cooperation and justice. China has always advocated multilateralism and promoted international relations based on the principles of equality and mutual respect. At the same time, China is also actively participating in global governance and playing an active role in international affairs." How to use Zhao Lijian's method to answer Sino-US relations?

The 89 people who work at Buffer, a company that makes social-media management tools, are used to having an unconventional employer. Everyone's salary, including the CEO's, is public. All employees work remotely; their only office closed down six years ago. And as a perk, Buffer pays for any books employees want to buy for themselves. So perhaps it is unsurprising that last year, when the pandemic obliterated countless workers' work-life balance and mental health, Buffer responded in a way that few other companies did: It gave employees an extra day off each week, without reducing pay--an experiment that's still running a year later. "It has been such a godsend," Essence Muhammad, a customer-support agent at Buffer, told me. Miraculously--or predictably, if you ask proponents of the four-day workweek--the company seemed to be getting the same amount of work done in less time. It had scaled back on meetings and social events, and employees increased the pace of their day. Nicole Miller, who works in human resources at Buffer, also cited "the principle of work expanding to the time you give it": When we have 40 hours of work a week, we find ways to work for 40 hours.

The U.S. intelligence community (IC) on Thursday rolled out an "ethics guide" and framework for how intelligence agencies can responsibly develop and use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Among the key ethical requirements were shoring up security, respecting human dignity through complying with existing civil rights and privacy laws, rooting out bias to ensure AI use is "objective and equitable," and ensuring human judgement is incorporated into AI development and use. The IC wrote in the framework, which digs into the details of the ethics guide, that it was intended to ensure that use of AI technologies matches "the Intelligence Community's unique mission purposes, authorities, and responsibilities for collecting and using data and AI outputs." "The IC leads in developing and using technology crucial to our national security mission, and we cannot do so without recognizing and acting on its ethical implications," Director of National Intelligence John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeRubio says congressional oversight of intelligence faces'historic crisis' following DNI announcement Warner calls Intelligence chief's decision to scale down congressional election security briefings'outrageous' Pelosi, Schiff pan director of national intelligence for canceling election security briefings MORE said in a statement Thursday. "These principles and their accompanying framework will help guide our mission leads and data scientists as they implement technology to solve intelligence problems."

You've seen the headlines about robots coming after your jobs, but a new report debunks the fears and finds Americans are less worried about automation in the workplace than it may seem. And it was those "ample fear-based, rhetoric-filled headlines" that prompted the report, Americans' Perceptions of the Future of Work, by the business process outsourcing provider Sykes. The survey of over 1,500 Americans across the US found that over two-thirds (67%) had a positive connotation with intelligent, automation-based technology. SEE: Artificial intelligence: A business leader's guide (free PDF) While that may be the case, demographics play a key role in Americans' perception of robots in the workplace, said Tara Chklovski, founder and CEO of Technovation, a global technology education nonprofit aimed at empowering girls in low-income communities. Technovation conducted its own survey in 2018 of 1,566 low-income families to get a sense of what people are feeling with respect to artificial intelligence and what their fears are.

To find out how 2020 Democratic candidates would use their presidential powers to address different aspects of technology, we sent seven key questions to every campaign. This post includes five candidates' answers to the fifth question. You can find answers to the other six questions on the landing page. How, if at all, should tech companies be held responsible for the jobs they eliminate with their innovations? Bernie Sanders: [I] will tell corporate America that artificial intelligence and robotics are not going to be used just to throw workers out on the street. This exploding technology must serve human needs, not just corporate profits.

The Terminator movie franchise is back, and the idea that robots and artificial intelligence are coming for us -- specifically, our jobs -- is a big part of the present. But the majority of the working population remains unafraid of a T-800 stealing their employment. Only a little over one-quarter (27%) of all workers say they are worried that the job they have now will be eliminated within the next five years as a result of new technology, robots or artificial intelligence, according to the quarterly CNBC/SurveyMonkey Workplace Happiness survey. Nevertheless, the survey results show it may be only a matter of time: Fears about automation and jobs run higher among the youngest workers. The survey found that 37% of workers between the ages of 18 and 24 are worried about new technology eliminating their jobs.

It looks like Americans aren't too excited about working with artificial intelligence. According to a new survey from Oracle and Future Workplace, only 22 percent of American workers are "excited about AI." About 60 percent of Indian workers and 56 percent of Chinese workers are excited about working with AI. Only 8 percent of French workers are excited about it. The researchers asked over 8,000 people in 10 different countries how they feel about AI in the workplace.