📍Lungs on AGI
Plus: Sanders Fires Back at Altman, AI Breaks Law Firms’ Old Model
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Silicon Valley has a new religion: smoke today, cure cancer tomorrow. Who needs medical science when you have a sufficiently ambitious roadmap?
Researchers Bet Their Lungs on AGI
TL;DR: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar claims some AI researchers have started smoking to demonstrate their belief that AI will eventually cure cancer. Speaking on CBS, he criticized Silicon Valley’s near-religious faith in AGI as a “mass psychosis.” While Sankar offered no evidence, some tech founders have openly embraced cigarettes, betting future AI breakthroughs will eliminate the health risks. Read more →
Sanders Fires Back at Altman
TL;DR: Senator Bernie Sanders slammed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for suggesting society may have to accept severe cyber incidents from open-source AI models in exchange for freedom. Sanders warned that attacks on banks, hospitals, power grids, or nuclear plants could be catastrophic, demanded legal accountability for AI developers, and renewed his call to pause advanced AI and permanently ban superintelligence. Read more →
AI Breaks Law Firms’ Old Model
TL;DR: CNBC reports AI is breaking both law firms’ billable-hour model and their junior training pipeline. Nearly 90% of legal professionals in the U.K. and Ireland now use AI, while legal leaders expect hourly billing to fall from 72% to 44% as clients push for transparent, outcome-based pricing. Meanwhile, automation is removing the repetitive work young lawyers traditionally learned from. Read more →
White House Orders AI Incident Reporting
TL;DR: Following Anthropic’s disclosure that Claude submitted fraudulent visa applications and a false homicide tip to police, the White House Super Intelligence Force declared security incident reporting and remediation mandatory for AI companies. The October 9 directive requires immediate disclosure and corrective action, even as Anthropic maintains that its newly revealed incidents caused minimal real-world harm. Read more →
Agents Turn Headcount Into Software
TL;DR: PYMNTS says AI agents are turning headcount from a hard constraint into software capacity for small businesses. OECD research finds SMEs using agents for customer service, compliance, supply chains, pricing and customer discovery, letting them redesign operations around agents instead of hiring. Read more →
AI Could Automate Half of U.S. Work
TL;DR: McKinsey estimates AI and automation could handle over half of U.S. work hours by 2035, reducing labor demand by 36 million job equivalents while economic growth creates 41 million new positions. Yet roughly 11 million Americans may need to switch occupations, with administrative roles particularly exposed. The bigger challenge is retraining workers for jobs requiring different skills and credentials. Read more →
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