Human curated highlights from last week:
• Easing access to gig/fractional workers: iHire launches industry-focused freelance marketplace;
• Flashing a warning: The letter big tech CEOs and top economists sent about AI’s threat to jobs;
• Fingering the bad guy gets harder: One of sci-fi’s most difficult questions about AI becomes real;
• Changing the way compliance gets done: Why following the rules may no longer be enough;
• Alleging AI disses those on medical & parental leave: Meta accused of firing protected workers.
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iHire announces the launch of its industry-focused freelance marketplace. Addressing the growing demand for flexible, project-based work, iHire’s marketplace connects employers with qualified, U.S.-based independent contractors to complete defined projects with specific deliverables – fast.
iHire is a TAtech Network Member.
More than 200 top economists, executives, and researchers — including over a dozen Nobel Prize winners — have signed a letter warning about AI’s potential threat to jobs. The 88-word-long letter, titled “We Must Act Now,” says that AI could become “radically more powerful” in the coming decade, and argues that policymakers worldwide need to do more to build guardrails for the technology or risk “large-scale job displacement.”
Since the days of Isaac Asimov in the 1950s, science fiction has tackled the question of whether artificial intelligences and the companies that create them can be held liable for crimes. With the rapid spread of AI chatbots and agents today, the debate has reached the real world. Over the past year, lawsuits have been piling up against AI companies in courts across the United States and abroad, alleging that chatbots encouraged people to harm themselves or provided advice on how to commit crimes. Now, as the AI industry moves from selling chatbots to providing agents that can complete complex tasks autonomously over long periods of time, the question of who should be held responsible when something goes wrong is only becoming more urgent.
For decades, employers managed compliance by learning the rules, building policies around them, and striving for consistency. If the law prohibited a practice, employers avoided it. If it required a particular step, employers completed it. Increasingly, however, that reflects only part of the compliance landscape. Many newer employment laws and regulatory frameworks no longer prescribe a single outcome. Instead, they ask employers to evaluate context, weigh competing considerations, document their reasoning, and explain why a particular decision was appropriate under the circumstances.
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave. They are among the 8,000 employees , or about 10% of its workforce, Meta said it would lay off in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, claims the company used internal AI systems, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithmically assisted performance rankings, among other methods, to determine who would be laid off.
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