Impact of AI on Society

The article reveals that the central issue is not AI itself but the gradual migration of decision-making power from democratic institutions toward systems that optimize behavior through data. The real ecosystem shift occurs when prediction becomes more valuable than participation, allowing platforms and technical infrastructures to accumulate governance power without democratic accountability.

The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come.

The article exposes a flaw in the public screen-time debate: regulators and parents measure exposure, while platforms optimize engagement dynamics. The real system operates around attention extraction, not screen duration. AI-enabled measurement may create a new governance layer capable of evaluating media based on cognitive impact rather than consumption volume.

Detectives say tools supplied by Palantir were integral to convictions of a criminal gang that stole £800,000

Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed?