Practical AI skills insights
OpenAI launched personal finance in ChatGPT the same week security researchers published findings on a tool-poisoning vulnerability affecting Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. 'Read-only' defines the permission, not the risk surface. Three questions worth answering before you connect AI to anything sensitive.
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Anthropic's CEO flipped his forecast: the 10% AI can't automate doesn't shrink — it expands to fill your whole role. The catch is that most people haven't identified their 10% yet. Here's how.
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A New York Times reporter used AI to research a story, got back a fabricated quote, and published it. A reader caught it. The editors didn't. The failure pattern here isn't a journalism problem — it's the default behavior for anyone who uses AI to pull quotes, stats, or summaries and publishes them without checking the source.
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A developer's post about losing his coding skills after two years of AI-assisted work hit 541 points on Hacker News. The pattern he described isn't a developer problem. It's a professional skills problem — and there's a three-question test for catching it before it catches you.
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OpenAI is spending $4B to send consultants into organizations to teach them how to use AI. Malta requires an AI literacy course before citizens get free ChatGPT Plus. Both moves prove the same thing: the bottleneck isn't access to the tools — it's knowing what to do with them.
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OpenAI replaced ChatGPT's default model on May 5. It's more accurate and gives 30% shorter answers. That's only useful if your prompts give it enough to work with.
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Telus deployed real-time accent modification on offshore call-centre agents without disclosing it to customers. Labour unions called it deceptive. Two rival telecoms declined. Three questions every manager should answer before rolling out any AI that changes how people present themselves.
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Work IQ creates stateful agents by combining your M365 data, Active Directory, and communication history. Before your IT team deploys it, you should know what those agents can see and do on your behalf.
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Anthropic's CEO spent most of 2025 warning AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level knowledge work. On May 5 he invoked the Jevons Paradox instead. When the person building the tool revises his own worst-case prediction, the signal isn't reassurance — it's a timestamp on a window that's still open.
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