Human Resources managed by AI. And we thought Skynet would be bad.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I remember having my first period Middle School (called Jr. High School at the time) class while it was pitch black outside in Denver Colorado. It was 7th grade Life Science. I also remember my teacher, Mr. Maki, putting a small pile of Nitrogen Triiodide (NT3) on the lecture table, and hitting it with a metal rod. As we were all half asleep, when it went bang, you could have peeled me of the ceiling. It was cold, dark and very hard to be awake at that time of the morning. I don't keeping DST is a great idea. OTOH, if we keep standard time, then it is bright at 4:30 AM in the summer. That isn't great but it is probably better than retaining DST. How about a proposal to meet in the middle. We fall back only 30 minutes this November and then never change the clocks again. Why can't Congress, vote on THAT plan?? We gain a bit of morning light in the winter and the sun doesn't wake us up too early in the summer.

So if humans don't need to prompt coding AIs, then what value does the human add? It seems like the AI can just do it all, right? This sounds like Geoffrey Hinton's nightmare.

Female protagonists -- over it.

If the government owns 50% of the stock they won't simply have a say in the company, they will be controlling the company as its largest shareholder. So, really the tax is the way to nationalize the AI industry. Even Orwell couldn't have constructed this dystopia. But the CCP already has something like this in place to harness its data gathering and analysis for their Social Credit system.

The Left doesn't need AI to manufacture a torrent of hallucinations. That's already built in.

The issue isn't that indie amateur horror flicks are hot. The issue is Disney has ground the Star Wars franchise into the ground. But it was pretty near death even before that. The first 3 movies (technically the middle three, IV, V, and VI) where great. The 4th movie was (Star Wars I) was awful. And by the time the last three of the original 9 came out they where nearly unwatchable. After that, I avoid anything Star Wars like the plague. And I saw the original three when they came out. So, this old fan wants nothing to do with the Disney Star Wars slop that keeps oozing out like an infection that won't heal.

She also needs to sue the company that supplied the facial recognition capability. In fact, I hope she puts them out of business. Let them all lose their homes, cars and any shred of credibility.

Such bills are so over the top. California, Colorado, and soon Virginia, should be renamed to China West, China Central, and China East.

You are responsible for protecting your own research/work product. If I'm using AI for something, I not only store the results, but also the prompts and chats as text files in git pushed to a remote private repo. Because losing days, much less years of work really sucks. Though, if you are using AI to create work products, how much of that is really your work? Prompt engineering is a thing, so that's your work. And having backups of that is essential. But the output? I think that's debatable, especially if you don't give credit to AI where it is due. Did your research methods document AI in your workflows? Did your students know that materials you supplied to them in their instruction was generated by AI? Well, they do now.

The OP never answers the question as to how the investments in AI will pay out. No current monetization model can get to break even much less profit. So, eventually investors are going to figure out the "pass the cash" scheme and that AGI isn't going to happen with the current approach, i.e. LLMs. But along with this mega bubble is the real estate bubble, debt bubble (aka bonds), and other stocks are also grossly overvalued. If any of these bubbles pop, then I don't see nay stop gap to keep them for all popping in rapid succession. If they do, the fallout will be global and the recovery time will be measured in decades.

Huxley's Brave New World had mechanical incubators, but at least you needed sperm and egg cells to make a human. It didn't have enough imagination or bravado to suggest flaky skin cells bathed in sperm could produce one. I'd say that just because you can do that, doesn't mean you should. It seems like this would make the female version obsolete, or at least relegated to baby carrying, that is until we come up with mechanical incubators. Ugh!!!

Biblical references aside, we cede more and more of our own lives for every promise of convenience and safety thus devaluing our humanity. When the robots take over you won't have noticed since you will have become one.

Nuff said.