Anna Wintour taken aback by the backlash to the Bezos Met Gala sponsorship. A commencement speaker in Florida shocked by the students booing her every mention of AI. Old people do not understand what’s happening with AI and the young. Here’s what’s going on, why it’s happening…
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Verity Harding
Director of AI & Geopolitics Project at University of Cambridge | Founder of Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former Global Head of Policy for DeepMind | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
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Read my last two posts to understand (some of) what’s going on here: open.substack.com/pub/verityha... open.substack.com/pub/verityha...
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Among Gen Z AI’s net favourability is now minus 44, driven by fears about jobs, the environment, creativity. But there’s another trend that many have missed: AI just isn’t very cool. My latest post explores the trend, the reasons behind it, and the consequences for the OpenAI/…
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An interesting dynamic in the AI jobs apocalypse discourse is how everyone thinks that their area of expertise is safe, but that areas they don’t know much about are at risk. Eg writers being able to recognise AI writing as turgid and unoriginal; SWEs seeing vibe coding as buggy and unsafe… (1/3)