UNDERNEWS
Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.
March 19, 2025
Trump regime
Donald Trump
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Artficial Intelligence
Axios - AI is deepening divisions between corporate leaders and workers... Executives are pushing AI as an inevitable revolution, but many workers aren't buying it.
Even execs who believe their AI integration is proceeding smoothly are handing down policies and tools to a frustrated and fearful workforce.
Employees are both fearful of being replaced by AI and frustrated over its performance, Writer CEO May Habib tells Axios.
- Around half of employees say AI-generated information is inaccurate, confusing and biased.
- Yet many workers believe AI is going to change their jobs so much that they're no longer going to have a job.
🦃 Asking those employees to embrace AI is like "asking a turkey to vote for Thanksgiving," Habib tells Axios.
- Execs are often so far removed from the actual implementation of AI that they don't see or understand this fear and resistance, Habib adds. Go deeper.
How US immigration has become a machine of surveillance and fea
Veronica Cardenas, The Guardian - Created in the wake of 9/11 under the guise of national security, Ice was supposed to target real threats. Instead, it has become a machine of mass surveillance, indiscriminate arrests and fear-based enforcement that does little to keep us safer. Over the years, the harshest post-9/11 policies were rolled back after proving ineffective. But today, we are watching history repeat itself.
The resurgence of Donald Trump’s immigration policies signals a dangerous return to a failed strategy – one that prioritizes public spectacle over public safety, conflates civil violations with criminal threats, and emboldens vigilantes to police immigration status as if it were their duty.
I saw this firsthand in my 13 years as an assistant chief counsel for Ice. The US immigration system was not designed to grant due process or ensure fairness; instead, it was built to prioritize deportation as a fallback when criminal prosecutions weren’t politically desirable or feasible. More