AI Could Add $375 Billion To Arab GDP, Or Gut Middle-Skill Jobs First
A joint ESCWA-ILO report finds up to 25% of occupations in the Arab region are exposed to generative AI by 2035, and that AI could add roughly $375 billion to…
Half Of Employees Admit To Faking AI Competence Under Workplace Pressure
A Visier survey of 1,000 full time employees found that more than half say their roles have changed significantly due to AI in the past two years, roughly half feel…
Fear Of Job Loss Hits A 13-Year High, Concentrated Among Higher Earners
The New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations found that 44.4 percent of respondents expect unemployment to rise over the next year, the highest reading since tracking began in…
Abu Dhabi’s Executive Council Just Governed With An AI Committee
On September 17, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed chaired the first Abu Dhabi Executive Council meeting run partly through an agentic AI platform that analyzed proposals, generated executive summaries, and delivered…
A Fabricated AI Intelligence Report Nearly Triggered A Military Confrontation
CNN’s exclusive reporting reveals a US military AI system generated a false intelligence report this spring claiming a Chinese vessel was carrying nuclear weapons components, a hallucination that came close…
The First AI-Industry Super PAC Enters The General Election
Leading the Future, a super PAC funded by AI industry money, launched its first general-election advertising this week backing Senate Republican candidates, including nearly $1 million in support of South…
More Than A Third Of Employees Now Turn To AI For Companionship At Work
Workday’s Human Connection Workplace Index, surveying 2,150 employees across seven countries, found that 37 percent now use AI for companionship at work, while a third rarely have a non-transactional conversation…
China Sets 90 Percent AI Penetration Target As India Scales State-Backed Models
China’s State Council “AI Plus” guideline targets 70 percent penetration of AI agents and intelligent terminals by 2027 and 90 percent by 2030 across science, industry, consumption, governance, and public…
Russia Expands AI Disinformation Into Full Cognitive Warfare Doctrine
Ukrainian officials report that Russian information operations have moved beyond simple disinformation into what analysts describe as cognitive warfare, using AI to systematically target how populations perceive and process information…
Employee Trust In AI Splits Into Four Distinct Psychological Patterns
New workplace research identifies four employee trust configurations toward AI, ranging from full trust to full distrust, plus two mismatched states, ‘uncomfortable trust’ (high competence belief, low emotional comfort) and…