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ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

AI is causing a crisis of agency.

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

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