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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an AI guy. Last week, during a stop in Nashville on his Take Back Your Health tour, the Health and Human Services secretary brought up the technology between condemning ultra-processed foods and urging Americans to eat protein. “My agency is now leading the federal government in driving AI into all of our activities,” he declared. An army of bots, Kennedy said, will...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comis a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Conservative Futurist. He writes the economics and technology newsletter Faster Please! In a viral essay on X, “Something Big Is Happening,” Matt Shumer writes that the world is living through a moment similar to early Covid for artificial intelligence. The founder and CEO of OthersideAI argues that AI has crossed from...
Continue Reading on https://www.vox.com/is a senior correspondent at Vox. He covers a wide range of political and policy issues with a special focus on questions that internally divide the American left and right. Before coming to Vox in 2024, he wrote a column on politics and economics for New York Magazine. It’s February 2020 again. An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world to its core — and...
Continue Reading on https://www.vox.com/This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 1869, a group of Massachusetts reformers persuaded the state to try a simple idea: counting. The Second Industrial Revolution was belching its way through New England, teaching mill and factory owners a lesson most M.B.A. students now learn in their first semester: that efficiency gains tend to come...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comis a senior technology correspondent at Vox and author of the User Friendly newsletter. He’s spent 15 years covering the intersection of technology, culture, and politics at places like The Atlantic, Gizmodo, and Vice. Some smart people think we’re witnessing another ChatGPT moment. This time, folks aren’t flipping out over an iPhone app that can write pretty good poems, though. They’re...
Continue Reading on https://www.vox.com/The year 2025 marks the age of AI agents, which are artificial intelligence systems that perform various tasks autonomously. For example, Otter.ai’s agent, Otter Pilot, links to virtual meetings, records, and transcribes content. Then, it provides businesses with a summary with a list of recommended actions. READ: Google at Work shows how AI agents can help businesses Article continues...
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