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Kyle Marquardt
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Professor, @sampol.bsky.social; Project Manager, @vdeminstitute.bsky.social; Iowan; also Utahn; klmarquardt.com
![A screenshot of the following text from this FT article [https://www.ft.com/content/cc03adda-7b56-4392-8f9a-e83a71a25ea1]
Some Amazon developers must be suffering whiplash about how they use AI. The technology group sets targets for most of its developers to use AI tools. This year it started monitoring consumption and posting usage figures on internal leader boards.
But after the FT wrote in May that some workers were automating non-essential tasks to improve their ranking, Amazon took the leader boards offline. “Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,” Amazon senior vice-president Dave Treadwell told staff.
The shift was a sign of how employers are already changing how AI should be used and incentivised. As model providers switch from subscriptions to token-based billing, the cost of profligate usage is starting to hit home. Using leader boards and embedding token use in performance reviews is “a really stupid way to do anything”, Jacob Lauritzen, chief](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e4zmgx4h2lfistppwfeabtbl/bafkreieg5yeq3ijdvohxjtzeo7lxafx7mssm3da64izo6ccug36luvy6jy)
![Chart showing levels of electoral democracy in Mexico and South Africa from the V-Dem project. Current levels: South Africa: 0.74 [CI: 0.69 - 0.81]; Mexico 0.47 [CI: 0.42 - 0.53]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fgb7yhrcolsvgta5m2k5ketm/bafkreifetjxf4oegzq7mijne35qeznsqmsi47tjgzfymbnzi63xql2a3aq)
