Erica Pandey

The AI resisters

Resistance to AI is bubbling up among some workers, students, coders, and creatives. Some are placing new value on work that's untouched by AI. Some AI resisters worry about its carbon footprint.

AI is changing the world faster than most realize

The people building AI are saying—subtly and unsubtly—that the technology is advancing more rapidly than the vast majority of people realize. It’s likely we won't know how and how much AI will change the way we live, work and play until it already has. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "

Gen Z's new side hustle: selling data

Selling data is becoming the new selling plasma. Many young people are more willing than their parents to share personal data, giving companies deeper insight into their lives. Generation Lab, a youth polling company, is launching a new product, 

The no-phone childhood movement

Study after study has detailed the stress and anxiety kids and teens deal with as a result of smartphone and social media use. But smar

Trouble for workers who turn cameras off

92 percent of executives at medium to large firms think workers who turn cameras off during meetings don't have long-term futures at the company, according to

America's kids get an internet librarian

NewsGuard, a service that uses trained journalists to rate news and information sites, will become available to millions of public school students at the end of January 2022 through a partnership with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Kids increasingly turn to the internet when looking for homework help or doing research for school projects. But unlike books in a library or articles in a journal, online resources can be difficult to filter for quality and misinformation.

Amazon's treasure trove of data

When Amazon invited cities to compete for its second global headquarters a year ago today, it got reams of data from the 238 entrants — enough to learn details of the cities' future plans that a lot of their residents don't even know about. The information effectively provided Amazon with a database chock full of granular details about the economic development prospects of every major metropolitan area in the United States (and some in Canada).