Trust Nothing, Verify Everything: Sullivan & Cromwell's AI Reckoning
Sullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street firm billing $3,000 an hour, filed a bankruptcy motion containing at least 28 AI-generated errors including fabricated case citations. The firm had rigorous AI training policies. Those policies were not followed. Opposing counsel caught the errors after the defendants had already filed their objections.
Read full story →From Demo to Deployment: Robots Are Showing Up for Work
Sony's robot beat professional table tennis players in a Nature study. Accenture piloted humanoid robots in a live warehouse. Pudu Robotics opened a U.S. headquarters with 15,000 units already deployed. The week's robotics news collectively signals the gap between impressive demo and actual commercial deployment is closing, unevenly but visibly.
Read full story →Millions at Risk, Congress Mostly Silent: AI's Job Crisis Reaches a Turning Point
Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Amazon's latest layoffs are making AI job displacement harder to wave away. New York Magazine asked the politicians who have been loudest on AI why their colleagues aren't proposing anything. The answer is as discouraging as you'd expect.
Read full story →Who Writes the New Deal?
When the industry fills the legislative vacuum with its own proposals, the industry gets to define the terms. Peter Harrison traces the economics back to a 2005 prediction about immortal machines, argues that Congress has no plan for what's coming, and offers three proposals of his own. He doesn't rate their probability highly. That's different from not having an answer.
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