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
Amazon quietly shuts Mechanical Turk on September 30, ending 21 years of human micro-work and cutting off the invisible labor that trained the AI economy.
Sep 26, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
Disney’s legal chief told 1,000 staff their jobs are being automated — the same day Disney hired its first CTO. The bill lands on the people in between.
Sep 25, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
Amazon cut more than 30,000 jobs and called it AI efficiency. Now its recruiters are emailing the people it let go, asking them to come back and build it.
Sep 24, 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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