Meta will no longer judge its engineers by how much they use AI tools.

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An analysis of Glassdoor reviews shows that positive AI comments have dropped from 81 to 43 percent since 2019. Executives rate AI mostly positive, while insurance claims workers rate it almost entirely negative. Fear of job loss is just one complaint among many. Forced adoption, surveillance, and unrealistic productivity expectations weigh just as heavily.

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Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees and agents that failed to deliver.

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Bill Gates warns in an essay and an NYT interview about mass unemployment and easier bioterrorism through AI, and he accuses his own industry of deliberately hiding the risks. "It's bad for us, for the next trillion we're trying to raise." He rejects self-regulation and instead calls for institutions modeled on nuclear weapons control and a token tax on AI use.

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Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time but needed a clear push from the operators to do it. When the scenario was replayed with seven models, more capable AIs recommended termination more consistently, while weaker ones hesitated. When it came to hiring, nearly all models were uncritical.

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