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Erin Carson

Reporter · US

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  1. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Erin Carson

    74% of workers ask AI questions instead of colleagues - with potentially serious consequences - ZDNET (opens the original)

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    Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When Maria Goyal has a question, her coworkers typically meet her with one answer: Ask Claude. The 25-year-old works at a marketing agency in Colorado. In the year she’s been there, she’s witnessed a creep where AI has become more ingrained into every aspect of the work, and this shift makes her feel isolated and self-conscious about turning to one of her more experienced coworkers for help or to brainstorm ideas. “It prevents me from like le

  2. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Erin Carson

    74% of workers ask AI questions instead of colleagues - with potentially serious consequences - ZDNET (opens the original)

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    Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When Maria Goyal has a question, her coworkers typically meet her with one answer: Ask Claude. The 25-year-old works at a marketing agency in Colorado. In the year she’s been there, she’s witnessed a creep where AI has become more ingrained into every aspect of the work, and this shift makes her feel isolated and self-conscious about turning to one of her more experienced coworkers for help or to brainstorm ideas. “It prevents me from like le

  3. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Erin Carson

    250 Eiffel Towers' worth of waste: The AI boom's toxic hardware problem - ZDNET (opens the original)

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    Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Solomon Njoroge started picking waste at the Dandora dumpsite when he was a child. He’s seen other waste pickers, who work long hours in the 40-acre landfill outside Nairobi, Kenya, suffer asthma, miscarriages, cancer, and respiratory diseases. A dumpsite like Dandora isn’t one person’s fault, but rather a literal pileup of choices made by governments, companies, and individuals, going back decades, about how to dispose of the junk and refuse

  4. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Erin Carson

    73% of tech job listings require AI skills now: How to show off yours - ZDNET (opens the original)

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    Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. More job descriptions than ever are soliciting AI skills, according to a new report from tech hiring platform Dice. An analysis of 7 million tech job postings in the US from May 2026 revealed that 73% required at least one AI skill, underscoring that a practical grasp of the technology is becoming a baseline expectation among employers. In January 2024, that percentage stood at 15%. “A lot of these [skills] are going to just become table stak

  5. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Erin Carson

    The 'learn to code' era is over - and employers are on the hook for reskilling now - ZDNET (opens the original)

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    Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When Rider Rodriguez founded Code Louisville 13 years ago, he imagined the tech skills program would eventually go away — but not like this. Funded in part by the Louisville Metro Government and grants, Code Louisville aimed to train Louisvillians for tech jobs by offering a free, flexible, six-month education in areas like web development, software development, and UX design. The hope was that the expansion of local tech talent would become

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