Denmark is giving people copyright to their own features and voice, to combat AI infringement and deepfakes. theguardian.com/technology/202…

How all but 1 of the 4,000 carriage and buggy makers at the dawn of the automobile age went out of business. steveblank.com/2025/07/08/bli…

"The number of people ages 65 and older is expected to more than double, from 857 million today to 2.4 billion by 2100." #future #demography pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

The AI efficiency trap: using AI to produce more mostly AI outputs, instead of better human work -- knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-ai…

Signs of AI eroding core professional skills within months of adoption -- archive.is/g7TXG

Thought-to-speech implants are getting good enough that they need trigger safe words, or risk blurting out the user's private inner dialogue -- npr.org/2025/08/15/nx-…

"A new study found that employment among 22- to 25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed jobs, such as software engineering and customer service, has dropped 13% since late 2022." #AI #futureofwork qz.com/stanford-warns…

"This year marks the onset of the 'silver tsunami' – the wave of baby boomers transitioning into retirement. More Americans will turn 65 in 2025 than ever before." #AI #workforce exponentialview.co/p/could-ai-off…

"U.S. adults are generally pessimistic about AI’s effect on people’s ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships: 53% say AI will worsen people’s ability to think creatively." #AI #future pewresearch.org/science/2025/0…

"Universal basic income, or UBI, has been floated as a potential solution for the coming AI revolution. But experts warn it's far from a perfect fix." qz.com/universal-basi…

"Rather than consolidating U.S. economic power, Trump’s tariff policy appears to be accelerating a globe shift toward a trading system where America is just one market among many." #trade #tariffs qz.com/china-winning-…

"Seven-in-ten Americans now say the higher education system in the United States is generally going in the wrong direction – up from 56% who said this in 2020." pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

What people around the world see as threats -- false information leads the list currently. pewresearch.org/global/2025/08…

Tourists using AI to plan trips are demanding to see sights that never existed -- theguardian.com/technology/202…

Contemporary philanthropy -- the Rockefeller Foundation is partnering with MrBeast -- rockefellerfoundation.org/news/beast-phi…

"A majority of young Americans see AI as a threat to their job prospects, and a plurality believe AI will reduce their own opportunities." wapo.st/49YWh0n

"Mr. Brooks argues that general-purpose humanoid robots will not be coming home soon, and that they are not safe enough to be around humans." #robots #future nytimes.com/2025/12/14/bus…

The spread of AI means that financial asset-style "flash crashes" could begin to happen in wholly unrelated and diverse industries and activities -- politico.com/news/magazine/…

"The unemployment gap between workers with bachelor’s degrees and those with occupational associate’s degrees — such as plumbers, electricians and pipe fitters — flipped in 2025, leaving trade workers with a slight edge for 6 months out of the past year" washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…

"Eighty percent of Americans want rules for A.I. even if that means the technology develops more slowly, according to a Gallup survey" nytimes.com/2026/02/21/tec…