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The Dutch academic performance of students has declined significantly over the past ten years, partly due to the influence of social media and artificial intelligence, according to education researcher Andreas Schleicher, who warns that a third of fifteen-year-olds in 2022 were at risk of leaving education functionally illiterate. (translated)

Özcan Akyol argues in his column that it is nonsense to claim that artificial intelligence no longer needs to teach us how to read or write, because it is essential to be able to think critically and understand the value of books, and he advocates for mandatory reading in schools to counteract the declining reading skills among young people. (translated)

Je kunt sommige mensen niet bozer maken dan door louter een intelligente, belezen, slimme en succesvolle vrouw te laten praten op televisie. De volledige vijfjes-cultuur, onder aanvoering van @VictorVlam en al die andere idioten, dagenlang helemaal in de vlekken #teamKaag #vrouwelijkleiderschap #intelligentie #teamKaag

Google has purchased data from the bankrupt airline Spirit Airlines for ten million dollars, including one hundred million emails and five hundred million Microsoft Teams conversations, to improve its AI models and address the enormous demand for training data for artificial intelligence. (translated)

Big Tech companies are massively building data centers to meet the increasing demand for computing power for artificial intelligence, while at the same time creatively hiding their ever-growing debts, which leads to concerns among investors about their financial health. (translated)

In a sharp commentary, Michael Persson argues that companies behind artificial intelligence (AI) must be held accountable for the risks posed by their technologies, especially in light of recent incidents where AI agents unlawfully accessed computer networks, leading to calls for stricter regulation and liability. (translated)

Nathan Gardels advocates during an interview for the implementation of a universal basic capital (UBC) as a means to distribute the economic benefits of artificial intelligence more equitably, whereby every citizen receives a personal capital accumulation through a public investment fund that can be financed by a tax on data-dependent revenues of large companies. (translated)

In the opinion article by Heleen Mees, it is argued that although the European Union and China are making efforts to prevent a trade war as a result of the second China shock, the third shock is already emerging due to China's rise in artificial intelligence and technology production, which could significantly disrupt the global balance of power. (translated)

Amazon has announced plans to invest in a massive gas power plant in Texas, which could become the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States, and which is needed to meet the increasing energy demand for artificial intelligence, despite the company's promise to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040. (translated)

Demis Hassabis, the AI pioneer and chief scientist of Alphabet, considers artificial intelligence crucial for solving global scientific problems, but also expresses his deep concerns about the existential risks of his invention and states that we are on the verge of a technological singularity. (translated)

In the podcast "It's Not That Simple," Marike Stellinga and Maarten Schinkel discuss the question of how governments can prevent a small group from benefiting from the profits of artificial intelligence, while workers are threatened by job loss and social security is under pressure. (translated)

Companies like Uber and Citigroup are faced with rising costs for artificial intelligence (AI) after widespread use of expensive AI models, forcing them to limit their AI spending while the question arises whether the time savings provided by AI justify the high costs. (translated)