Featured in the latest Digest: AI and the Performance of Workers with Disabilities www.nber.org/digest/20261...

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Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

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Industrialization of knowledge work is going to be as disruptive a shift as industrialization of physical labor was. As then, once craft-driven fields are under pressure to produce greater volumes of product using machines while using less of the craft that made the work interesting & meaningful.

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Back in July, there was a report that got a lot of attention on BlueSky that Waymo was more dangerous than NYC for-hire vehicles. The analysis turned out to be wrong and the updated report finds they are much safer. Good that they updated with new data, though www.openplans.org/how-for-hire...

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It is ironic that the thing that is now most annoying about long-running agentic tasks with Large Language Models isn't coding or errors or hallucinations, but the fact that their language gets worse due to drift & cross-agent talk as a task goes on Its in your the name! Just write better already!

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