AI IMPACTTHE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
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THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
For three years the loudest man in finance told the world that artificial intelligence could replace his employees — and that firing them was the entire point. Sebastian Siemiatkowski slashed Klarna’s workforce from roughly 5,500 people to 3,400 and bragged that one OpenAI-built assistant was doing the work of 700 human agents. Now the same…
Sep 20, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
A 27-year-old man spent three years teaching machines to think, and then he walked away from the only industry that would ever pay him to do it — because he is now convinced the people running that industry believe the machines are going to kill everybody. Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this month and said,…
Sep 19, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
The people who were hired to build Claude just watched Claude take over the job of building Claude. Anthropic — the lab founded specifically to prove that artificial intelligence could be built safely — said Thursday that its own chatbot now leads 26% of the company’s research and development, a share that sat at zero…
Sep 18, 2026 AI Impact News
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