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Is AI About to Change Everything We Know About Work, Health, and Innovation?
From solar breakthroughs to brainwaves and job forecasts, AI is rewriting the rules of progress.
Welcome to a world where robots work overtime for solar power, AI rewrites your essays (and maybe your brain), and medicine and office jobs alike are bracing for their algorithmic shake-up — here's what you need to know.
MIT’s Solar Robot Is Supercharging the Future of Clean Energy
Are You Still Thinking, or Is ChatGPT Doing It for You?
This French Startup Wants AI to Serve Citizens, Not Corporations
AI-Engineered Drugs Are Headed for Human Trials — Here’s What That Means
AI and the White-Collar Job Reckoning: Ford’s CEO Sounds the Alarm
AI Might Be Coming for Your Desk Job
Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that artificial intelligence could replace half of all white-collar jobs in the U.S., calling for urgent plans to support those displaced.
Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, he joined other leaders like Anthropic’s CEO and the IMF in highlighting AI’s disruptive impact.
While some, like Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, remain optimistic that AI will create better jobs, concerns persist about mass unemployment without adequate social safeguards.
MIT’s Solar-Powered Science Bot
In the race to create better solar cells, MIT just deployed a robotic lab assistant that doesn’t sleep.
Their autonomous system, powered by machine learning and robotics, precisely maps photoconductance across new semiconductor materials, over 125 readings per hour. It's like speed dating for solar technology, identifying the most promising materials in record time.
With this boost, researchers hope to fast-track the development of high-performance, sustainable electronics.
AI for the People, Not Just the Power Players
French AI firm Mistral is pushing back against Big Tech with its “AI for Citizens” initiative, aiming to make AI tools more transparent and tailored for public use.
The company criticizes the “one-size-fits-all” model of tech giants, arguing it creates user dependency on closed systems. Mistral plans to support governments with citizen-focused AI and is partnering with Nvidia to build AI data centers in France.
Despite its stance, Mistral maintains a cloud partnership with Microsoft, balancing independence with global reach.
ChatGPT May Be Ghostwriting Your Brain, Too
A new MIT study suggests heavy reliance on ChatGPT could weaken critical thinking and memory retention.
Researchers split 54 participants into groups using ChatGPT, Google, or no tools to write essays, tracking brain activity via EEG. Those who used only their brains showed the most cognitive engagement and satisfaction, while the AI-reliant group exhibited dulled mental activity and struggled to recall their content.
The findings raise concerns that LLMs may erode creativity and independent thought over time.
AI-Designed Drugs Head to Human Trials
DeepMind’s pharma sibling, Isomorphic Labs, is about to let AI-designed drugs out of the lab and into human trials.
Backed by $600 million and powered by AlphaFold’s protein-predicting prowess, they’re targeting cancer and immune diseases with machine-made molecules.
The company bets that AI can outpace pharma’s 10% clinical success rate. Welcome to drug development by code.
As AI accelerates across sectors, from labs to legislatures and lecture halls, the real challenge is no longer what it can do, but how we choose to shape its impact on our lives.