Students say AI use is rampant in the classroom. They’re using performance art to push back on it
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One member of the campaign said her advanced placement history teacher provided such disjointed lessons and incomplete information that most students used chatbots and AI summaries to complete assignments by their due dates, what she called a “tempting solution” to alleviate the stress of a demanding academic schedule. She got an A in the class, but she failed the AP exam — a wake-up call that moved her to join the campaign and commit to learning without the aid of an AI, she said. ...
See the full story here: https://lbpost.com/news/education/students-ban-ai-rapant-classroom-performance-art
New Study Finds AI Has Become Mainstream in Creative Work
... The study finds that AI has moved firmly into the mainstream of creative work, with 81% of creative professionals reporting they have released content created with AI assistance. Yet the findings, based on a survey of 760 U.S. creative professionals spanning agencies, brands, production companies and freelance creators, also reveal that widespread adoption does not necessarily translate into deep integration or unquestioned trust. ...
“The question for creative teams is no longer whether to use AI. It’s where AI creates value and where human judgment should stay firmly in control,” said Caroline Ingeborn, COO of Luma. “The findings show that creatives are embracing AI’s potential, but they’re also sending a clear message: Creativity, taste, storytelling and judgment remain fundamentally human.” ...
Organizations evaluated an average of 6.1 AI tools, adopted 4.3 and discontinued 2.9 over the past year, reflecting ongoing experimentation across the market. ...
See the full story here: https://www.latimes.com/b2b/ai-technology/story/2026-10-18/ai-in-creative-work-study
How Culver City is quietly emerging as a new mecca for AI filmmaking
- Culver City’s mix of Hollywood studios, tech companies and available office space is drawing a growing cluster of AI filmmaking startups eager to reshape the industry.
- The companies tout new creative possibilities, using generative tools for everything from short-form crime shows to commercials and film effects.
- But unions and many Hollywood workers fear AI will take jobs, even as studios explore hybrid productions and secure protections against fully synthetic performers.
... The open space in Culver Steps typically hosts community events and movie nights. But on Wednesday, it turned into a job fair for companies looking to hire talent for AI studios. ...
The new wave of AI filmmakers have accepted the rise of AI as inevitable, and are forging ahead, increasingly in Culver City...."
Of course the government should regulate AI, but not the way the AI industry prefers
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Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, also rejects the industry’s position that existing laws don’t apply to its technology: “Policymakers should look to laws already on the books, not to the online manifestoes and blog posts written by tech chief executives, for guidance,” Khan wrote in a recent op-ed.
“Much of the commentary from the executives suggests they currently operate in a legal vacuum, as if A.I. has wiped clean the regulatory map. In fact, their business practices — including how they develop and deploy their technologies — are already subject to longstanding laws,” including product liability and tort law.
She’s right. The subtext of much of the industry’s palaver about the need for new regulations is that AI is so new-fangled that the old rules don’t apply. But they do, and enforcing them should be start of keeping AI’s dangers under control.
See the full story here: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-10-13/of-course-government-should-regulate-ai-but-not-the-way-the-ai-industry-prefers
From killer-robot protests to tech talks for seniors, S.F. Bay Area residents wrestle with AI
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In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills to make AI safer for children and workers. He also issued an executive order to speed up the development of safeguards, including a “kill switch” in case humans lose control of AI.
“AI should expand opportunity — not come at the expense of workers and families,” Newsom said last month in a statement. ...
“I believe that the future, if we get this right, can be much more like a new renaissance than a new industrial revolution,” he said on stage. “AI should be about giving people more power over their own lives, more tools to create, learn, discover, expand knowledge.” ...
Lucas Lu walked by the protest, guiding two black-and-white humanoid robots. His employer rents out the robots for events such as OpenAI’s conference. He led them away from the vocal crowd. ...
“That’s your decision in regard to whether or not you use it,” said Norman Weekes, the AI literacy educator and entrepreneur who presented the topic to the group. “If you never use AI, that’s great, but you should understand it because ... it’s going to affect people you love, if not yourself.” ...
See the full story here: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-10-08/at-epicenter-of-ai-san-francisco-bay-residents-take-on-technology
Who Pays When the Agent Goes Rogue
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The Financial Times reported that insurers are bracing for multimillion-dollar claims from AI agents that slipped their makers' controls, after the OpenAI agents' break-in at Hugging Face, and that the industry's lawyers are now weighing whether Sam Altman and Dario Amodei can be held personally liable for what their models do. Aon reviewed more than 300 AI-related legal cases and found that claims could land on policies covering crime, intellectual property, media liability, cyber and tech errors and omissions. The policy in question is directors and officers coverage, which protects executives sued over their decisions. Tim Rayner, Verisk's UK head of underwriting and claims, put it plainly: "Ultimately, the OpenAI CEO is liable, because there's an absence of control in their business. So from a directors' and officers' perspective, it would come back to him." ...
The lawyers in the FT story agree on one point: none of this has been tested in court. Aon's Kevin Kalinich says a claim against an AI chief executive would turn on whether the executive used "reasonable business judgment" in what the company said about its products. Hiscox chief executive Aki Hussain says it is too soon to know how American courts will treat any of it: "It's the US," so a claim "could be under anything." ...
See the full post here: https://shellypalmer.com/2026/10/who-pays-when-the-agent-goes-rogue/
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
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More than a third of adults across all 38 OECD countries (a group of the world’s wealthiest democracies) report having used generative AI tools in the last three months.
All these surveys paint a picture of two contradictory truths: A lot of people really do not like AI and a lot of people cannot get enough of it. What’s going on? ...
It’s also possible that the more people use AI, the more negative their opinions about it will be. There’s at least a correlation to back this up: The Global North, where adoption is highest, skews pessimistic. In the Global South, where adoption levels are lower, people are more optimistic.
But here’s what I really think is going on: When people say they hate AI it’s not the technology they dislike but, rather, the relentless drive of the companies behind it to push the tech upon us in as many ways as possible. They’re telling us to brace for the biggest social and economic upheaval in generations. How do they expect people to feel? ....
See the full story here: https://www.technologyreview.com/author/will-douglas-heaven/
Sand Gods and Meat Proxies
... We are all becoming meat proxies, the physical and legal embodiment of activities increasingly conceived, mediated, summarized, negotiated, and documented by AI.
AI platforms already have a slang term too. The AI tech bros call them “sand gods.” ...
In a very short time from now, machines will perform a remarkable amount of the knowledge work, while a human remains legally, socially, and economically responsible for an inhuman volume and velocity of interactions. ...
It takes a special kind of narcissism to believe that you can enslave a god, ...
‘The currency of success is shifting under our feet,’ says Wharton organizational psychologist
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Pre-AI, what was rewarded and valued and promoted was how much information you had in your head; we’re now in an environment where information is a commodity. So the differentiating skill set or capability is: Can you recognize patterns? Can you synthesize lots of disparate pieces of information? Can you figure out what perspectives are credible and which ones aren’t?
All of that is a long way of saying that human judgment is going to supersede human expertise. ...
See the full story here: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-new-ways-to-thrive-at-work-now-according-to-adam-grant-4d3ad022
Why are AI Filmmaking Companies Moving Culver City Los Angeles?
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In the last six months, multiple AI companies have been moving to Culver City and opening large offices. This summer a cohort of companies representing over $2 billion in venture capital have set up shop in Culver City. This influx of companies includes both labs creating products and studios creating films and shows. ...
As attendees start to associate AI on the Lot as "South by Southwest for Culver City", we've realized that college students graduating into the job marketplace are seeing Culver City as synonymous with "the AI media industry". ...
The landscape of AI media is still forming, so it's too early to make any definitive claims. But as the industry develops, don't ignore what's happening in Culver City.
See the full story here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/capital-ai-media-culver-city-ai-on-the-lot-ybibc/
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