Gen Z founder on ‘AI anxiety’ and being pigeonholed as generation shortcut: ‘biggest misconception’

For Kiara Nirghin, 24-year-old co-founder and chief technology officer of applied AI lab Chima, the narrative that her generation is using artificial intelligence as a cheat code is not only false: it ignores a fundamental shift in human cognition. The former Stanford computer science student and Pierre Thiel A colleague argued that while older generations…

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Lawsuit Shines Spotlight on AI Meeting Assistant Legal Risks

A new lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court highlights the legal risks associated with AI-based meeting assistants that offer transcription and speaker identification services on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The complaint, filed by Illinois resident Katelin Cruz, alleges that California technology company Fireflies.AI Corp. illegally collects and stores biometric voice data of individuals…

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Reflexive AI: Procurement’s Next Operating Model

For years, purchasing managers have been promised a future in which technology would finally make their work easier. Instead, most AI projects remained in “pilot purgatory,” with good ideas that never really scaled. Industry 4.0 changes that. Reflexive and agentic AI is no longer experimental. This becomes central to how procurement does its work every…

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The Church of AI – M-A Chronicle

“We will not use the Taser today. We have guests with us,” Frank* said, referring to the undisclosed “punishment.” mentioned for those who have not completed the required reading before coming. Berkeley Rationalist Reading Groups occur weekly, with each event post always alluding to this mysterious penalty. A Brief History of the Rationalists Although not…

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AI Police Reports: Year In Review

In 2024, the EFF wrote our first blog on what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, technology has proliferated at a worrying rate. For what? The most popular generative AI tool for writing police reports is Axon’s Draft One, and Axon also happens to be the largest provider of…

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