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The Machine That Rewrites Itself—and Why It Might Just Rethink the Future of Work

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The Machine That Wanted to Be Better

In the spring of 2025, a curious event unfolded in the quiet logic of a computer somewhere in Vancouver. Read about the research at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954 An AI system, designed not just to perform tasks but to reflect on its own design, rewrote part of its code. Then it did it again. And again. Each time, it tested whether it had improved....

Job, Work, and AI: Rethinking the Tool, the Task, and the Dream Job

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Job, Work, and AI: Rethinking the Tool, the Task, and the Dream Job in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Last weekend, over the usual Saturday noise—kids orchestrating a backyard mutiny, the lawn mower muttering its dissent, and a dog somewhere barking existential questions into the void—I had a conversation that lingered long past its time. https://youtu.be/9RhMTf_3s3g A young friend, fresh out of college and fresh into worry, asked: “Why even try? AI can do most of what I’m trained to...

The Ouroboros of Intelligence: AI’s Unfolding Crisis of Collapse

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The Ouroboros of Intelligence: AI's Unfolding Crisis of Collapse

Somewhere in the outskirts of Tokyo, traffic engineers once noticed a peculiar phenomenon. A single driver braking suddenly on a highway, even without cause, could ripple backward like a shockwave. Within minutes, a phantom traffic jam would form—no accident, no obstacle, just a pattern echoing itself until congestion became reality. Motion created stasis. Activity masked collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F_F2ajqvjw Welcome to the era...

Behind the Curtain: A White-Collar Bloodbath, Sponsored by Disruption™

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Behind the Curtain: A White-Collar Bloodbath, Sponsored by Disruption™

Satirical Business & Career Intelligence AI Didn’t Steal Your Job—Your CEO Did, With a Slightly More Efficient Spreadsheet By TheMORKTimes | May 29, 2025 In a revelation that surprised absolutely no one with an Outlook calendar and a soul slowly eroded by Slack notifications, AI pioneer Dario Amodei has issued a chilling warning: Artificial Intelligence is poised to eviscerate entry-level white-collar jobs...

Our Thoughts on Axios’s “AI white-collar bloodbath”

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Our Thoughts on Axios's "AI white-collar bloodbath"

It begins, as these things often do, not with a bang but with a memo — one that quietly circulates among executives, policy wonks, and press inboxes, whispering the same unsettling thought: This time might be different. Not because we’ve built smarter machines — we’ve done that before. But because the machines now whisper back. They write emails, draft...

The Worker’s Dilemma in the Age of AI: What UNDP missed and got it right in their 2025 report

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The Worker’s Dilemma in the Age of AI: What UNDP missed and got it right in their 2025 report

The 2025 Human Development Report from the UNDP, titled “A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI,” makes an urgent and timely appeal: that the rise of artificial intelligence must not leave people behind. Its human-centric framing is refreshing, reminding us that AI should be designed for people, not just profits. But when viewed from...