AI IMPACTTHE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
Clear reporting on the people, work, communities, and decisions being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
FICO cut 570 jobs and HubSpot cut 660 in the very same 24 hours. One blamed its AI pivot. The other swore AI had nothing to do with a single one of the layoffs.
Oct 7, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
The White House renamed AI 'super intelligence' and handed Jay Clayton 120 days to report on its risks. The name changed overnight. The oversight math did not.
Oct 6, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
A new Anthropic index finds robots can do 74% of US physical job tasks but undercut workers on just 0.3%. So why are the layoff notices already going out?
Oct 5, 2026 AI Impact News
THE IMPACT TEST
What does this change for a real person — at work, at home, or in the community?
OUR EDITORIAL LENS
AI coverage often stops at the demo. We follow the second-order effects: the job redesigned, the neighborhood burdened, the patient helped, the decision made opaque.
Our newsroom brings together negative and positive impact stories, grounded in public evidence and written for people who want to understand what is actually changing.
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