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Commentary: No, AI bots won't extinguish humanity on their own — but you should worry about the humans behind them (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred If you’ve devoted even a moment’s attention to the vibes percolating within the zeitgeist, you’ve probably heard about the possibility that artificial intelligence is poised to extinguish us all. The current version of a scenario once chiefly identified with the Terminator movies and other examples of apocalyptic science-fiction derives from sev
Commentary: Think an 'independent' editorial board will protect CNN from political meddling? Think again. (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred “They’re not worth the paper they’re printed on.” The speaker was media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who had accepted a sheaf of guarantees of editorial independence for the revered Times of London and the Sunday Times in order to secure government approval to take over the newspapers in 1981. Among Murdoch’s undertakings were that the newspapers’ edi
Commentary: Why are workers feeling so stressed? Maybe because labor's share of the economy is at a record low (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred There was a brief moment at the tail end of the pandemic, already forgotten, at which it seemed that American workers had finally grasped the reins of power, with wage gains rising and organizing strength entering a new era. The moment is forgotten today because whatever leverage labor thought it had acquired evaporated rapidly. And recently it
Commentary: The NBA report on the Ballmer/Clippers scandal shows it was even worse than you thought (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred One rule I’ve developed in years of writing about financial scandals is that, as bad as a scheme appears at first, it’s more likely than not that the facts will turn out to be nastier than they appeared at first. Case in point: The scandal swirling around the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Assn. and their billionaire owner, form
Commentary: Despite Trump's pressure, companies that maintained their DEI programs did just fine (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Whether you love DEI, despise it or view it with uninterest, there’s no question that President Trump’s relentless assault on the principle threw a ticking bomb into the upper echelons of corporate and institutional managements. Businesses, universities, law firms and nonprofits felt themselves bound to consider how bucking Trump’s anti-DEI poli
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