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Future of AI

News on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Libraries

Saturday, February 15, 2025

If You Ask AI Who You're Married To, You May Spit Out Your Coffee

As the Wall Street Journal pointed out this week, there's a reliable way to make even the most advanced AI go completely off the rails: ask it who someone is married to.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/ai-chatbot-hallucinations-marriage

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Tech layoffs 2025: How Donald Trump, DeepSeek, and AI could reshape the job landscape

Tech layoffs, which consistently declined in 2024, seem to have come back to haunt millions of professionals in 2025. The first month of 2025 has recorded considerably more job cuts than December 2024. Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft have announced layoffs and even begun their cost-cutting measures.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-layoffs-2025-donald-trump-deepseek-ai-jobs-landscape-9810137/

Generative AI, the American worker, and the future of work

Addressing some of generative AI’s emerging risks for which society’s response is far less developed, especially risks to livelihoods. 

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/generative-ai-the-american-worker-and-the-future-of-work/

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/