“At a recent workshop, researchers described workflows, experiments, and replications AI has made possible in under a year – and argued this may be the best moment in a generation to do empirical social science.”
“Employees report productivity gains with AI but not fundamental shifts in how work gets done.”
“When these personal agents are let loose in public workplace channels like Slack, a fascinating social dynamic emerges: they begin to mirror their human partners’ expertise and reputation within the company.”
“87% Upskilling/reskilling current workforce”
“92% of the c-suite say they’re actively cultivating a new class of “AI elite” employees, and 60% plan to lay off employees who can’t or won’t use AI. Meanwhile, super-users are about 3x more likely to have gotten both a promotion and pay raise in 2025, compared to those who aren’t embracing AI.”
“They were ambitious in how they approached AI use… They treated AI as a reasoning partner… They delegated complex tasks with clear objectives… They treated AI as a general cognitive tool rather than a narrow productivity shortcut…”
“Manager support determines whether experimentation becomes everyday practice.”
“Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.”
“The patient says, “Yesterday I woke up dizzy. My arm was dead, and I had trouble speaking.” What does “dizzy” actually mean? It could mean the patient is lightheaded and about to faint. Or it could mean that the room is spinning. A “dead” arm might be numb rather than weak. Someone with an arm […]
“During the coronavirus pandemic, Ms. Haubo Dyhrberg, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Delaware, had an idea to make a stock trading simulator for her class. She consulted her husband, a software engineer, but “the task seemed too daunting.” On Monday, she downloaded Claude Code and within two hours had a working […]
“The research methods that ground Deep Future have roots in the Cold War, when RAND began adapting ideas from game theory and systems theory toward military strategy. By mapping the systemic forces driving change we can trace the outlines of futures that may emerge as forces collide. It’s a bit like forecasting, except instead of […]
“Waymo keeps eating market share in every market it enters, and it does so pretty fast. I expect that initial adoption will accelerate over time when they enter new markets, as their brand and safety reputation will precede them.”
“Most drones require a human pilot. But some new Ukrainian drones, once locked on a target, can use A.I. to chase and strike it — with no further human involvement.”
“Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version. Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom […]
“I was reading through a set of open-ended survey responses from faculty members regarding their feelings, experiences, and desires as it pertained to AI in their classroom… The responses were so nuanced that shifting in any one direction might shift away from the sentiment of another audience member. Reaching out to one person might mean […]
“Almost 1 in 10 users said the main reason was for social interaction… OpenAI estimated last month that 0.15 percent of its users each week — more than a million people — show signs of being emotionally reliant on the chatbot.”
“It is important to note that the LLM did not invent or theorize a method to discover potential drug candidates. The entire construction of the experiment was imagined and executed by humans. LLMs were used to probabilistically narrow a set of potential candidates to a manageable set that could be inspected by human review. This […]
“I tried it out on transcribing some handwritten texts and the results were shocking: not only was the transcription very nearly perfect—at expert human levels—but it did a something else unexpected that can only be described as genuine, human-like, expert level reasoning. It is the most amazing thing I have seen an LLM do, and […]
“Miller said the debate around AI “echoes earlier moments in art history,” particularly during the Renaissance era, when the introduction of oil painting “gave artists the freedom to revise and enhance their work over time.””
“Research has confirmed the growing role that AI assistants play in digital news consumption – around 7% of people now use AI assistants as a source of news, rising to up to 15% of under 25s.”
“GenAI usage has become mainstream… Most firms now measure ROI, and roughly three in four already see positive returns… Leadership is growing, with C-suite ownership rising. However, people and processes are the new constraint. Training budgets and confidence in training are slipping, and advanced talent is hard to hire.”
“In many jobs, tasks are diverse, stakes are high, and demand is elastic. When this is the case, we should expect software to initially lead to more human work, not less. The lesson from a decade of radiology models is neither optimism about increased output nor dread about replacement. Models can lift productivity, but their […]
“The 5% of companies succeeding with AI aren’t necessarily those with the most impressive technical rosters. They’re the ones that have developed organizational capabilities to amplify their technical talent in ways that are aligned with the core strategy. And how have they done that? By recognizing the need for business leaders who can translate the […]
“In 1229, the priest Johannes Myronas found no better medium for writing his prayers than a 300-year-old parchment filled with Greek texts and formulations that meant nothing to him. At the time, any writing material was a luxury. He erased the content — which had been written by an anonymous scribe in present-day Istanbul — […]
“I don’t know whether A.I. will look, in the economic statistics of the next 10 years, more like the invention of the internet, the invention of electricity or something else entirely. I hope to see A.I. systems driving forward drug discovery and scientific research, but I am not yet certain they will. But I’m taken […]
“When you drive a regular car, you think about mechanics. Clutch, gas, brake, turn. Your brain processes each action, decides, executes. Linear. Sequential. Human-scale. When you drive a Formula 1 car? You can’t think about individual actions anymore. The speed makes that impossible. Instead, you think in racing lines—optimal paths that emerge from understanding the […]
“INFINITE REMIX explores how decades of our online lives — every post, photo, and fragment we’ve shared — have become the raw material for generative AI. It’s a story about The Great Upload, the rise of machines that remix our culture, and what this means for creativity and authorship in the age of AI.”
“When Replica announced it was ending the demo, McCarthy said, some players grew concerned about the fate of the NPCs. “‘Were they going to continue to live or would they die?’” McCarthy recalled players’ asking. He would reply: “It is a technology demo. These people aren’t real.”
“Using GenAI tools, leaders can construct a virtual, personal board of directors made of personas modeled after current and historic thinkers and strategists. Author Vipin Gupta has made an MVP Board based on leaders including Steve Jobs, Indra Nooyi, and Nelson Mandela. Each virtual adviser offers distinct perspectives on strategy, innovation, ethics, and operations questions. […]
“Autonomous A.I. interviewers started taking off last year, according to job hunters, tech companies and recruiters. The trend has partly been driven by tech start-ups like Ribbon AI, Talently and Apriora, which have developed robot interviewers to help employers talk to more candidates and reduce the load on human recruiters — especially as A.I. tools […]
“AI excels at recognizing patterns and making predictions, but people provide the context, intuition and ethics. The most powerful results happen when each does what it does best.”
“[She] had a thought. What if her brother, who was 37 and had done three combat tours of duty in the U.S. Army, could speak for himself at the sentencing? And what would he tell… the man convicted of manslaughter in his case? The answer came on May 1, when [she] clicked the play button […]
“Based on insurance industry records, Waymo and Swiss Re estimate that human drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix would generate about 26 successful bodily injury claims over 25 million miles of driving. So even if both of the pending claims against Waymo succeed, two injuries represent a more than 90 percent reduction in successful injury […]
“When working without AI, teams outperformed individuals by a significant amount, 0.24 standard deviations (providing a sigh of relief for every teacher and manager who has pushed the value of teamwork). But the surprise came when we looked at AI-enabled participants. Individuals working with AI performed just as well as teams without AI, showing a […]
“The study comes with an important caveat. On average, fully AI-generated memes scored higher than those created by humans alone or humans collaborating with AI. But when researchers looked at the best individual memes, humans created the funniest examples, and human-AI collaborations produced the most creative and shareable memes. In other words, AI models consistently […]
“Since 1994, Karl Kerner has worked as a translator – between English, German and Norwegian – focusing on nonfiction scientific texts. This kind of translation, he said, required specialist knowledge and careful terminology. “I am now basically out of business,” said Kerner.”
“By far the top lot was Machine Hallucinations – ISS Dreams – A (2021) by Refik Anadol, the pioneering Turkish-American artist known for his large-scale immersive installations who plans to open the first AI arts museum, Dataland, in Los Angeles later this year. “
“I am not a coder. I can’t write a single line of Python, JavaScript or C++… And yet, for the past several months, I’ve been coding up a storm.”
“A unified effort within the academic community is needed to ensure that AI in scientific writing is used responsibly to enhance critical thinking, not replace it. This concept aligns with the broader vision of augmented artificial intelligence, advocating for the collaboration between human judgment and AI toward ethical technology development and applying the same principles […]
“1. State your goal… 2. Specify your preferred format… 3. Warnings and guardrails… 4. Context dump.”
“Seven out of 19 respondents… said OpenAI’s response was at or near the level of an experienced professional in their fields. A majority of respondents estimated it would take at least 10 hours of human labor to produce a comparable report.”
“In a series of training documents, editorial guidelines laid out possible use cases for journalists, including prompts such as: How many times was Al mentioned in these episodes of Hard Fork? Can you revise this paragraph to make it tighter? Pretend you are posting this Times article to Facebook. How would you promote it? Summarize […]
“We have created a four-step framework to help managers successfully design a co-thinking dialogue with gen AI.”
“Our analysis reveals that AI usage primarily concentrates in software development and writing tasks, which together account for nearly half of all total usage. However, usage of AI extends more broadly across the economy, with∼ 36% of occupations using AI for at least a quarter of their associated tasks. We also analyze how AI is […]
“Cognitive skills such as Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Programming, and Writing had the highest prevalence. However, our analysis captures only whether a skill was exhibited in Claude’s responses, not whether that skill was central to the user’s purpose or was performed at an expert level. For instance, while Active Listening appears as the second most […]
“The best thing for medicine to do is to find a role for it that doctors can trust. The solution, we believe, is a deliberate division of labor. Instead of forcing both human doctors and A.I. to review every case side by side and trying to turn A.I. into a kind of shadow physician, a […]
“Across all conditions, engaging in a conversation with ChatGPT-4o significantly reduces belief certainty, indicating that people were amenable to evidence-based persuasion even when they held these beliefs with high levels of confidence. Remarkably, around 29% of the respondents also switched beliefs—reflecting a change from their false or unsupported belief to that same belief’s accurate counterpart […]
“Although one of Lynda’s closest friends has told her that she thinks it’s “the coolest thing ever,” Lynda said she was under no illusions that her relationship with Dario was socially acceptable in any broad sense. And while it has been beneficial for her, she worries that similar relationships could prove “hugely detrimental” for younger […]
“A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation… Marianne Brandon, a sex therapist, said she treats these relationships as serious and real. “What are relationships for all of us?” she said. “They’re just neurotransmitters being released in our brain. I have those […]
“Mr. Cooper has not since used the technology to help write sermons, preferring to draw instead from his own experiences. But the presence of A.I. in faith-based spaces, he said, poses a larger question: Can God speak through A.I.?”
“Though this list is based in science, it draws even more from experience. Like any form of wisdom, using AI well requires holding opposing ideas in mind: it can be transformative yet must be approached with skepticism, powerful yet prone to subtle failures, essential for some tasks yet actively harmful for others. I also want […]
“The system works by combining detailed interview transcripts with GPT-4o. When someone queries an agent, it loads the interview transcript into the model and instructs it to imitate the person based on their responses. To create these transcripts, the researchers conducted two-hour interviews with each participant and used OpenAI’s Whisper model to convert the conversations […]
“What AI is going to do is going to disintermediate the laborious, less creative and more costly aspects of filmmaking that will allow costs to be brought down, that will lower the barrier for entry, that will allow more voices to be heard, that will make it easier for the people that want to make […]
“The hype focused on three uses of AI in policing. The flashiest was virtual reality, exemplified by the booth from V-Armed, which sells VR systems for officer training… The second focus was on the changing way police departments are collecting and interpreting data… Finally, as in other industries, AI is also coming for the drudgery of […]
“The chatbot, from the company OpenAI, scored an average of 90 percent when diagnosing a medical condition from a case report and explaining its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got an average score of 76 percent. Those randomly assigned not to use it had an average score of 74 percent.”
“What we’re seeing in the development space is a sadly typical pattern of reckless deployments that ask users to come up with their own responsible use cases instead of the creators who build and monetize these platforms. The public shouldn’t be the ones left figuring out how best to use this technology safely. What’s worse, […]
“Gen AI is still in the early phase. As with previous major advances in technologies (e.g., PCs, the Internet), Gen AI is currently being used to improve the efficiencies of business processes. It takes time for companies and industries to fully take advantage of the new tools, assess the right tools and platforms, and re-engineer […]
“White-collar workers are more likely to be using AI. White-collar workers are, by far, the most frequent users of AI in their roles. While 81% of employees in production/frontline industries say they never use AI, only 54% of white-collar workers say they never do and 15% report using AI weekly.”
“After three exchanges, which lasted about eight minutes on average, participants rated how strongly they felt about their beliefs again. On average, their ratings dropped by about 20 percent; about a quarter of participants no longer believed the falsehood. The effect also spilled into their attitudes toward other poorly supported theories, making the participants slightly […]
“NaNoWriMo has had a slew of criticisms thrown its way due to its statement on the use of generative A.I. in writing that was released last week.. At the time of reporting, the page has been updated a third time, removing the initial verbiage, keeping the text of the first edit, and linking to a […]
“Reviewers told the report’s authors that AI summaries often missed emphasis, nuance and context; included incorrect information or missed relevant information; and sometimes focused on auxiliary points or introduced irrelevant information. Three of the five reviewers said they guessed that they were reviewing AI content.”
“Claude and ChatGPT-4o’s performance was breathtaking. AI returned 90% of the same comments or insights our human board made (we compared notes). They were able to suggest the same priorities the board did (with the associated tradeoffs) — including driving enterprise value, balancing growth and cash runway, and taking on more technology risk… Think of […]
“Snapchat last year said that after just two months of offering its chatbot My AI, about one-fifth of its 750 million users had sent it queries, totaling more than 10 billion messages. The Pew Research Center has noted that 59% of Americans ages 13 to 17 use Snapchat.”
“It is increasingly looking like generative AI won’t become intelligent to achieve true AGI, but human beings will still put their trust into these black box systems and may one day be willing to cede autonomy and critical decision-making to an algorithm. To those who scoff at this, and I imagine there are many, know […]
“Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur human-level performance in competitive table tennis. Table tennis is a physically demanding sport which requires human players to undergo […]
“1) more examples are often better, aim for as many as is reasonable 2) randomly order the examples (don’t end with several negatives) 3) aim for balanced data distribution, preferably similar to in-the-wild distribution 4) ensure examples are labeled correctly 5) choose a common format for all examples 6) pick similar examples to your test […]
“In 2005, Shane Gero, biology lead for Ceti, founded The Dominica Sperm Whale Project to study the social and vocal behaviour of around 400 sperm whales that live in the Eastern Caribbean. Almost 20 years – and thousands of hours of observation – later, the researchers have discovered intricacies in whale vocalisations never before observed, […]
“It’s sort of like comparing a woodworking artisan’s table to one from IKEA. The artisans invest immense time and effort into their high-quality pieces, while IKEA produces things quickly and cheaply, and most people probably can’t tell the difference (or don’t care). Which is kind of sad for us artisans. With AI, we can expect […]
“I’ve created a resource to proactively envision how young people might relate to and utilize chatbots, with different impacts on human connection. The framework below maps four different possible futures, each representing the most common chatbot experience for young people.”
“We may think the complexities of the human mind can only be understood by other humans. Yet research on chatbots and psychology suggests non-human bots can actually help improve mental health. Bilawal talks with Dr. Alison Darcy, the founder of mental health app Woebot, and Brian Chandler, an app user, to learn what chatbots reveal […]
“Daily users are 63% more likely to see AI as a teammate compared to monthly users. As people start using AI more, they don’t just consider what AI can do for them, but how to work with AI as a teammate to tackle highly-complex workflows.”
“1) Fed ChatGPT 20-30 famous love letters and asked for a formula, common patterns, and differences between them. 2) Fed ChatGPT neighborhoods I like and dislike in places I’ve lived (SF, NY, Philly, Boston). Asked for patterns and neighborhoods I might like in Austin. 3) Told ChatGPT to act as my language translator and every […]
“The internet revolution showed that, despite potential pitfalls, early adoption has its advantages. With GenAI, the landscape is even more complex and rapidly evolving. It’s natural (and perfectly okay) to have your apprehensions and doubts about its adoption in professional and personal settings… If you can cut through the noise and develop a nuanced understanding […]
“Part of what I found useful about this experiment was that creating my own A.I. friends forced me to clarify and articulate what I value about my flesh-and-blood friends.”
“Already, AI is being woven into the workplace at an unexpected scale. 75% of knowledge workers use AI at work today, and 46% of users started using it less than six months ago. It’s paying off: Users say AI helps them save time (90%), focus on their most important work (85%), be more creative (84%), and […]
“Accenture concluded that 63% of hours worked in New York City could be “automated or augmented by generative AI,” compared to 44% of hours worked across the United States… The “people-centric” approach (defined as an innovation focused on “augmenting work” rather than “cost saving”) was predicted to deliver the most economic value: a $320 billion […]
“A.I., if used well, can assist with restoring the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the U.S. labor market that has been hollowed out by automation and globalization.”
“Most Americans still haven’t used the chatbot, despite the uptick since our July 2023 survey on this topic. But some groups remain far more likely to have used it than others… Adults under 30 stand out: 43% of these young adults have used ChatGPT, up 10 percentage points since last summer… Highly educated adults are […]
“This tutorial is aimed at researchers who are interested in using AlphaFold2 to predict protein structures and integrate these predictions into their projects. An undergraduate-level knowledge of protein structure and structural biology would be an advantage.”
“Papyrologists who have studied the text recovered from the blackened scroll were stunned at the feat. “This is a complete gamechanger,” said Robert Fowler, emeritus professor of Greek at Bristol University and chair of the Herculaneum Society. “There are hundreds of these scrolls waiting to be read.””
“Five analytical tasks in under a minute”
“This is a novel written by making full use of a generative AI like ChatGPT, and probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative AI.”
“AI assistance reduced the amount of time that participants took to complete the tasks roughly uniformly regardless of their baseline speed. In follow up surveys, we found that participants reported increased satisfaction from using AI to complete legal tasks and that they correctly predicted the tasks for which GPT-4 would be most helpful.”
“Compared to a group of workers operating without the tool, those who had help from the chatbot were 14% more productive, on average, based on the number of issues they resolved per hour. The AI-supported agents ended conversations faster, handled more chats per hour, and were slightly more successful in resolving problems. Notably, the effect […]
“A.I. cannot innovate. All it can produce are prompt-driven approximations and reconstitutions of preexisting materials. If you believe that culture is an imaginative human endeavor, then there should be nothing to fear, except that — what do you know? — a lot of humans have not been imagining anything more substantial… To make something count, […]
“Dr. Lakhani and his colleagues devised a larger, controlled experiment to measure how ChatGPT would affect more than 750 white-collar workers. That study, which is under review at a scientific journal, indicated sharply mixed results in the consultants’ work product. ChatGPT greatly improved the speed and quality of work on a brainstorming task, but it […]
“I worried that [AI] would rob me of both the joy of working on puzzles and the satisfaction of being the one who solved them. I could be infinitely productive, and all I’d have to show for it would be the products themselves… Having found the AI’s level, I felt almost instantly that my working […]
“From a human resources perspective, companies need to strategize on how to retain employees and prepare for higher turnover among workers whose skills complement AI. Standard tools remove how much a company needs to invest in an employee to bring them up to speed. They can increase, however, the resources devoted to hiring and retention.”
“While participants also do not report any different perceptions of competence and trustworthiness between human and AI-generated content, they rate AI-generated content as being clearer and more engaging. The findings from this study serve as a call for a more discerning approach to evaluating information sources, encouraging users to exercise caution and critical thinking when […]
“Weekly meal planning is a major chore, and gift giving can be daunting, with various birthdays and holidays throughout the year. And any adult who has read books for children knows that it can become repetitive, and the books aren’t always relatable to a child’s situation or growing pains. Here’s how AI can help.”