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
Microsoft offered buyouts to 60,000 workers, 27% of staff, who must decide by early December and leave Dec. 31 while it spends $175 billion on AI data centers.
Nov 1, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
OpenAI staffed its safety queue with 12 to 60 people while 1.2 billion used ChatGPT weekly. Joshua Enneking died nine months into a wait nobody cleared.
Nov 1, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
Goldman Sachs finds workers displaced by AI search a month longer and are 10 points more likely to be jobless a year on. For anyone over 35, add five weeks.
Nov 1, 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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