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Concerns have also been raised over false matches leading to wrongful arrests. The European Union adopted an Artificial Intelligence Act last year that banned “the use of ‘real-time’ remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of law enforcement”, with some exceptions.
In summary, we find that the current contraction and further stratification of higher education across the world evolves in tandem with the inexorable proliferation of AI tools in universities. Under the pretence of technological saviourism, the mobilisation of AI as compensation for the collateral damage of systemic job and funding cuts occurs not as a tonic for mass higher education or defibrillation for research.
Instead, it confirms the exploitation (and what will surely be the exhaustion) of higher education by techno-oligarchs and its volte-face to a playground of social elites. In the long view, the contribution of AI may be far less to the recovery than to escalated jeopardy of higher education as a sector struggling to defend its value as a public good.
Suicide prevention continues to be a top priority for VA, but the overall figures have remained largely unchanged since 2008. VA statistics show that roughly 6,500 veterans take their own lives each year, with more than 17 retired servicemembers dying by suicide each day.
Swift’s modest proposal was that the poor breed their children as food for the elites. Tapping into the New World discourse of cannibalism, Swift wrote:
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
As my fellow plaintiff Kirk Wallace Johnson put it, this is “the beginning of a fight on behalf of humans that don’t believe we have to sacrifice everything on the altar of A.I.” …. We poured our hearts and souls into these books, and I’m not alone in feeling outraged that Anthropic brazenly pirated my novels in its unchecked pursuit of power and profit. Now the book publishing industry has sent a message to all A.I. companies: Our intellectual property isn’t yours for the taking, and you cannot act with impunity. This settlement is an opening gambit in a critical battle that will be waged for years to come.
Every year 100s of employers are named and shamed for failure to pay the statutory minimum wage. Between 2016 and 2023, over 3m workers were denied the minimum wage. The roll of dishonour includes companies such as Argos, EasyJet, Estee Lauder, Greggs, Lloyds Pharmacy, Marks & Spencer, Mitchells & Butler, Wm Morrison, Moss Bros, Pizza Hut, Rank Group, WH Smith, Superdrug and Tesco.
Activist Eddie Tse, who called the new mechanism unfair and lacking transparency, is challenging the Social Workers Registration Board’s decision to suspend his licence for three years.