The headline of a recent NBC poll was that AI is now even less popular than ICE in the US. But even more interesting was the finding on how hugely unpopular it is with Gen Z. AI's young people problem is one of the reasons I wrote this post recently about why AI in recruitment is a huge risk:
Everyone wants to talk about AI replacing jobs, but what about AI replacing the hiring process itself?
In my new post I argue that it’s the more immediately important issue — because of its effect on young people, who are already on the sharp end of AI’s impact.
This may not always be a problem for graduate recruitment only…
NEW POST!
On why we should all care about young people being examined, interviewed and rejected by AI:
NEW POST!
On why we should all care about young people being examined, interviewed and rejected by AI:
📣 My new post on what Silicon Valley can learn from a 1984 report about IVF—and, what they can learn from politicians…
NEW POST:
Three groups within the left in the US are increasingly united against one bogeyman: AI. What does this mean for Democrats in the year of the midterms? It’s a coalition they didn’t ask for, but will have to lead.
A coalition on the left won it for the Greens in Gorton & Denton. Read my latest piece about an emerging coalition of the left in the US—how AI is their uniting force, and what that means for the Democrats as they head into the midterms:
Find out how opposing AI became a uniting focus of the Democrat base, and why this causes the party a headache as they head into the midterms.
Someone on LinkedIn compared this piece to Tocqueville, so how can you resist?!
NEW POST:
Three groups within the left in the US are increasingly united against one bogeyman: AI. What does this mean for Democrats in the year of the midterms? It’s a coalition they didn’t ask for, but will have to lead.
Why are tech leaders flocking to Delhi next week? My latest post explores India’s rise as an AI power broker.
Why are tech leaders flocking to Delhi next week? My latest post explores India’s rise as an AI power broker.
AI is challenging, but it doesn’t need to be frightening. So why do so many talk about every new aspect of it in such hyperbolic terms? My latest ‘AI Needs You’ post argues for calm.
The Sunday Times today very much proving my point with this headline
Talking about AI in apocalyptic, frantic terms serves only to distract from real work that needs doing and has been done. Moltbook was the latest in a long line of triggers for a breathless panic that helps no one.
My latest edition of ‘AI Needs You’ on why we crave hyperbole in AI:
New: we dug into Epstein’s dealmaking in Silicon Valley. He used his connections with tech’s elite to get into hot startup deals, some of which paid off handsomely (coinbase) and others that did not (jawbone).
W/ @rmac.bsky.social + matt Goldstein
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Talking about AI in apocalyptic, frantic terms serves only to distract from real work that needs doing and has been done. Moltbook was the latest in a long line of triggers for a breathless panic that helps no one.
My latest edition of ‘AI Needs You’ on why we crave hyperbole in AI:
Beneath the calls for all-out American dominance in AI, there is a huge amount of division with the Republican party over what to do. The Silicon Valley critique is that Europe regulates tech too much, but plenty of states and MAGA-supporters want to regulate it too.
The consensus seems to say that the Trump administration is joined up in its support for AI and AI companies—but in fact, AI is one of the few issues causing rupture inside the MAGA movement.
Read all about it in the latest edition of AI NEEDS YOU (free to read)
The Trump movement is divided over AI, and it highlights something interesting about the future of AI and the future of US politics. My latest post:
New AI NEEDS YOU post is up: On how AI has become an unlikely fault-line in the MAGA movement. Come for the 2am Senate drama, stay for the evangelical conservative wing who think AI scientists are 'apostates'.
Plus, Book of the Week!
New AI NEEDS YOU post is up: On how AI has become an unlikely fault-line in the MAGA movement. Come for the 2am Senate drama, stay for the evangelical conservative wing who think AI scientists are 'apostates'.
Plus, Book of the Week!
Thank you Sean!
This is good and, more generally, it's always welcome to have someone talking about AI and politics that has actually worked in both AI and politics.
In case you missed my new Substack on AI and politics — first edition on whether comparisons to an ‘arms race’ are appropriate.
With thanks to the substack OG @samfr.bsky.social for this kind recommendation!
