‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

'... the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AIs grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.'

#AI #RobotizationOfHumanity

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

'... when it comes to its impact on students, early studies point to potentially catastrophic effects on cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills.'
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

#AI #RobotizationOfHumanity

Meta koopt start-up die al je gesprekken opneemt. Is Zuckerbergs gedroomde ‘superintelligentie’ al in zicht? Meta heeft Limitless gekocht, een apparaatje dat gesprekken opneemt, automatisch transcribeert en onthoudt. De overname past in Meta’s zoektocht naar ‘superintelligence’, waarbij AI ons in alle facett...

Ban this shit! - 'Limitless’s "Consent Mode", which only records unknown voices if they speak their permission out loud, is automatically disabled by default in the factory settings.'
www.volkskrant.nl/tech/meta-ko...

#Meta #Zuckerberg #TechFascism #intrusion #privacy #AI #RobotizationOfHumanity

Meta koopt start-up die al je gesprekken opneemt. Is Zuckerbergs gedroomde ‘superintelligentie’ al in zicht? Meta heeft Limitless gekocht, een apparaatje dat gesprekken opneemt, automatisch transcribeert en onthoudt. De overname past in Meta’s zoektocht naar ‘superintelligence’, waarbij AI ons in alle facett...

' #Meta is acquiring a startup [Limitless] that records all your conversations...Ultimately, everything you see, hear, type and say will end up in the cloud of a tech company, which will then unleash its #AI systems on it'
www.volkskrant.nl/tech/meta-ko... (Dutch, paywall?)

#RobotizationOfHumanity

‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it

Telling... 'No one’s taking a holiday. People don’t have time for their friends, for their hobbies, for … the people they love.'
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

#AI #AGI #CollectiveMania #TunnelVision #RobotizationOfHumanity #NecroTech #TechMoloch #TechVampire #LustForPower

Google Wants to Power Their Chatbots By Filling Our Skies With Garbage The space data-center wars are coming—and they’re going to be ugly.

'... [Google's] paper boasts that the company’s data center fleet “will be significantly larger … than any previous or current satellite constellations” in orbit.'
slate.com/technology/2...

#AI #EnergyHog #Google #satellites #SpaceJunk #SpacePollution #GrowthAddiction #RobotizationOfHumanity

What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself

'... progress worth pursuing requires refusing the illusion that faster, cheaper and more standardized is the same as better. True care is not a transaction to be optimized; it is a practice and a relationship to be protected'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

#AI #RobotizationOfHumanity

Enhanced Games are dangerous and must be stopped, says Wada head The head of the World Anti-doping Agency has called on US anti-doping authorities to act to stop the Enhanced Games, describing the new event as ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’

'Enhanced Games are dangerous and must be stopped, says Wada [World Anti-Doping Agency] head'
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

#RobotizationOfHumanity #doping #drugs #PEDs #EnhancedGames #cheating #spoiling

THE AGE OF HUMACHINES | Kirkus Reviews A complex, multipart agenda for a future in which humans retain their humanity.

'The Age of Humachines. Big Tech and the Battle for Humanity's Future'
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

'An intensely intriguing if seemingly unreachable vision of a new future for the world.'

#AI #RobotizationOfHumanity #ClimateEmergency #EcologicalDisruption #greed versus #degrowth

Why does modern life often feel like the seven circles of digital hell? | Margaret Sullivan Tech irritations are the definition of ‘first-world problems’, yet I yearn to fish from the banks of my own Walden Pond

'Why does modern life often feel like the seven circles of digital hell?'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#TechTerror #PublicHealth #RobotizationOfHumanity

AI tools may soon manipulate people’s online decision-making, say researchers Study predicts an ‘intention economy’ where companies bid for accurate predictions of human behaviour

'AI tools may soon manipulate people’s online decision-making, say researchers'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

'Study predicts an "intention economy" where companies bid for accurate predictions of human behaviour'

#AI #RobotizationOfHumanity #AutomatedPersonality #manipulation #surveillance