I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty
The judge called its defense ‘persuasive.’
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Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them
The Signal president on why labor organizing still matters.
Ex-Googlers blast ‘AI godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton’s silence on fired AI experts
Where was Hinton when Google fired experts for warning AI could harm marginalized people?
Can existing laws regulate AI? The federal government and experts say yes
Agencies aren’t going to give AI special treatment just because it's new.
A California bill would regulate automated decisions. But is its definition of AI too narrow?
Assembly Bill 331 would create rules for machines that make 'consequential decisions.'
Goodbye Silicon Valley, hello . . . Arlington?
For the Pentagon, layoffs are a once-in-a-generation chance to snap up tech talent.
NYC is about to regulate AI in hiring. Critics say the new law doesn’t do much
Why Local Law 144 isn't just a missed opportunity, but dangerous.
Amazon was cited for ‘serious’ worker safety violations. Why was the fine only $60,000?
How Amazon gets off with a slap on the wrist for systematically endangering its workers.
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
Tech-savvy users are rallying around Mastodon — here's how it works.
The AI startup erasing call center worker accents
New software can make overseas call center workers sound American — but at what cost?
Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?
The goal is to shore up the vibes as prices go down.
Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project
“People looking to make money, not lose it.”
‘This can’t be real’: Grubhub promotion turns New York City restaurants into a ‘war zone’
A food delivery platform Grubhub went badly awry – and proved there’s really no such thing as a free lunch.
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
How Elon Musk makes Chinese workers put in hours that would be unacceptable elsewhere.
What did I just buy? I tried to use New York’s first NFT vending machine
How the world’s first NFT vending machine lets you lose money in person.
E-bike batteries are setting a record-breaking number of fires every year
The people most in danger are New York City's delivery workers.
Gig workers of the world are uniting
The sunniest of platform capitalist narratives can’t overcome a simple reality: Workers fight back.
The workers who sued Uber and won
Former Uber driver James Farrar on why we must treat digital rights as worker rights.
What Nomadland gets wrong about gig workers
It feels less like artistic license than a betrayal of workers’ reality.
Can American labor survive Prop 22?
Prop 22 marks a dangerous new phase in big tech’s onslaught against workers.
