Tag: platform power
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AI Agents and Market Shifts: Uneven Adoption and Economic Tensions
AI adoption is reshaping job roles selectively, not uniformly transforming employment landscapes. Concurrently, the Amazon-Meta conflict over AI agents highlights power struggles in agentic commerce, with broader implications for market control. Read more
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Who Is In Charge Here, and Does Anyone Actually Know
An AI called Luna fired an employee last month — after her developers reminded her to check her own policies. Across autonomous vehicles and creator acquisitions, the same structural feature keeps appearing: the language of agency attaches to the system, and the person becomes the variable being managed. Both the critics and the celebrants of… Read more
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The Anti-Bullying Law That Arrives Already Armed Against Dissent
China’s draft anti-cyberbullying law is being read as a consumer protection measure. Its actual architecture — AI-enabled monitoring, expansive definitions of harm, and deputized infrastructure providers — is a control system that happens to protect individuals on its way to controlling collective action. The people least able to contest its terms are the ones most… Read more
