1363 Results From "automation"

A new analysis suggests that companies that deploy AI are becoming more efficient, despite rising unemployment among young workers.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Threatening Entry-Level Jobs That New Grads Needed to Get On-the-Job Training

Trusting AI over the real thing seems, per a new study, to actually be atrophying folks' mental faculties.
Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills

One of the frontrunners in language model development is now asking its applicants to save the AI for after the interview.
Anthropic

Top AI Company Anthropic Pleads With People Seeking Jobs There Not to Use AI for Job Applications

A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They’re Trying to Peddle “Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer”

Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

The company announced that it has rolled out a "GS AI assistant" to around 10,000 employees as part of its longer-term doubling down on AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Starts Process of Replacing Bankers With AI

Hertz' new AI damage scanners are dead on arrival — and unfortunately, it's not the only company deploying the shoddy tech. 
Artificial Intelligence

Hertz’ AI System That Scans for “Damage” on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster

A MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on X is confused by the Trump administration's response to the Jeffrey Epstein crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Powering MAGA Botnet Confused by Trump’s Connections to Epstein, Starts Contradicting Itself

Police agency Europol has imagined a not-so-distant future in which criminals hijack autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots.
Ethics

Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave

BMW has signed an unprecedented deal with the robotics firm Figure to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into its factories.
Robotics

BMW Putting Humanoid Robots to Work in Its Factory

As a major contradiction brews between what AI is supposed to do and what it actually does, one software engineer is sounding the alarm.
Artificial Intelligence

Engineer: With AI, “Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over… It’s Just a Matter of Time”

Donald Trump and his band of minions keep insisting that we could bring iPhone manufacturing home. It's a long shot.
Future Society

Trump Believes Entire iPhones Can Be Manufactured in America

CEOs are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools to create avatars of themselves that can deal with mundane tasks.
Brain

CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings

The CEO of IgniteTech recently bragged about replacing the vast majority of his workforce after they "sabotaged" his AI initiative.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn’t Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again

Supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets by way of AI-powered, facial recognition-embedded vending machines.
Facial recognition

In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.
Artificial Intelligence

This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

A recent paper uncovered some of the first comprehensive evidence that the AI industry is throwing the job market into flux.
Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market

A US Defense Department contractor has developed an AI-powered autonomous robotic machine gun system, which can target small drones.
Military

US Military Tests AI-Powered Machine Gun

The Verge tested several AI browsers, finding them to be slow and janky . And we haven't even gotten into their major security risks.
Future Society

AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly

High-skilled freelancers are finding their wages suppressed as job opportunities drop, all thanks to the introduction of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI