All posts tagged: Erasing

AI Should Deepen Human Judgment Instead of Erasing Apprenticeship

AI Should Deepen Human Judgment Instead of Erasing Apprenticeship

Published by Sam Flores

Every profession contains humble work that looks expendable from above. The junior analyst gathers figures. The new lawyer organizes documents. The beginning marketer drafts variants. The research assistant cleans data. These tasks are easy targets for automation because they are repetitive and time-consuming. They also have another function; they are how people learn what good work looks like. That makes the latest employment evidence from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab more than a labor-market statistic. Using ADP payroll records covering millions of U.S. workers through June 2026, Stanford reports that employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations is about 19% below where it would be if it had kept pace with similarly aged workers in less exposed occupations. The comparable measure was 15% in the July 2025 data. Much of the adjustment manifests through reduced hiring, especially where AI use tends to automate human tasks. Experienced workers show no comparable gap. The moral and organizational mistake would be to treat the routine work of beginners as mere waste. Human expertise is …

No. 4 Texas Stuns No. 1 Ohio State 24-23 After Erasing 20-Point 4th-Quarter Deficit

No. 4 Texas Stuns No. 1 Ohio State 24-23 After Erasing 20-Point 4th-Quarter Deficit

Published by Sam Flores

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Arch Manning and No. 4 Texas stole a 24-23 victory from No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday night, rallying from a 20-point fourth-quarter deficit to win it on Hollywood Smothers’ 1-yard touchdown run with 25 seconds left. The Longhorns’ 20-point comeback in the fourth quarter is the largest fourth-quarter rally to win against an AP No. 1 team, according to Sportradar. The Buckeyes had appeared in complete control after a dominant three quarters and led 23-3. But Texas (2-0) rallied behind Manning, whose touchdown pass to Ryan Wingo early in the fourth started the comeback. Smothers scored on a 1-yard run with 7:14 to play before Ohio State (1-1) drove for what could have been a clinching field goal. Connor Hawkins, who had earlier made three field goals, missed from 45 yards, setting up Texas’ winning drive. “When that happened, I knew it was our time,” Manning said. “I’m really proud of the way we responded. We could have let that thing go. It’s a testament to our coaches and our …

How Sudan’s civil war is erasing thousands of years of cultural memory

How Sudan’s civil war is erasing thousands of years of cultural memory

Published by Sam Flores

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The ancient statues of the deities Heket and Beset, too heavy to move, were used for target practice. The 4,000-year-old skeletal remains from the bio-archaeology lab? Scattered or scorched. The gold vault lays ransacked, the storage rooms firebombed. Share via Close extra sharing options Walk through the grounds of the Sudan National Museum and the reminders of the civil war’s devastating impact on this country’s cultural history seem everywhere. “It was systematic. They entered the depots and stole everything they could,” said Umaima Abdul-Rahman Al-Sanusi, one of the museum’s curators, as her eyes scanned a shattered display case. She was referring to the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, a paramilitary group that controlled the capital — and the museum with it — from April 2023 until government forces dislodged them in March of last year. When Al-Sanusi first saw the level of destruction in the museum — where she’s been employed around 15 years — she cried. Even now, more than a year after she and her colleagues returned to the museum, her voice …

Court Blocks Alabama From Erasing Significantly Black US House District

Court Blocks Alabama From Erasing Significantly Black US House District

Published by Sam Flores

May 26 (Reuters) – A court blocked Alabama on Tuesday from ⁠using ⁠a pro-Republican voting map that would erase ⁠one of the state’s two U.S. House of Representatives districts with majority or near-majority Black ​populations, a setback for President Donald Trump’s party in its quest to keep control of the chamber in the November elections. In a 79-page ‌ruling, a panel of three federal judges ‌said the Republican-backed map intentionally discriminated against Black voters and could not be used for the 2026 elections. Republican officials in ⁠Alabama immediately said ⁠they would appeal to the decision to the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court. Black voters typically ​support Democratic candidates. Republicans are defending narrow majorities in the House and Senate in the midterm elections. Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey previously postponed to August the party primary elections for four U.S. House districts that were redrawn as part of the disputed map. The ruling was the latest development ​in a new and frenzied round of congressional redistricting that has unfolded across the South, as Republican-led states have ⁠scrambled to …

Taking Churchill off the banknote isn’t ‘erasing history’ – but it is a matter of identity

Taking Churchill off the banknote isn’t ‘erasing history’ – but it is a matter of identity

Published by Sam Flores

News of the intended removal of Winston Churchill’s image from the five pound note by the Bank of England has outraged some commentators and politicians. Reform UK’s Nigel Farage called it “the definition of woke”. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the plans to replace historical figures with wildlife would be “erasing our history”. As an anti-counterfeit measure, the Bank of England is replacing the historical figures on the next series of banknotes with wildlife. The wildlife to appear will be chosen after a public consultation. Technically, of course, removing Churchill from a banknote would not erase him from history. Even if his reputation is at times questionable, the fact of his leadership through the second world war is not. What removing him from a banknote does threaten is something far more personal: the collective memory through which many people understand not just Churchill and Britain, but themselves. Crucially, the Churchill presented in popular culture is not meant to be understood in historical terms. History involves research, debate and revision. The Churchill that most people encounter …

US succeeds in erasing climate from global energy body’s priorities – POLITICO

US succeeds in erasing climate from global energy body’s priorities – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Unusually, there was no joint communique from the ministers at the end of this week’s meeting. The chair’s summary mentioned climate change just once, saying “a large majority of ministers stressed the importance of the energy transition to combat climate change and highlighted the global transition to net zero emissions in line with COP28 outcomes.” Despite that line, climate change was not highlighted as a priority in the closing remarks and was barely mentioned during the final press conference, reflecting the power of the U.S., the group’s richest member which contributes around 14 percent of the agency’s funding. U.S. President Donald Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and efforts to address it a “scam.” Since coming to office just over a year ago, he has taken a sledgehammer to domestic U.S. climate policies, withdrawn from international climate bodies, attempted to stall renewable projects, and promoted the global expansion of fossil fuels production — including through a military intervention in Venezuela. During the talks in Paris, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright had urged the agency …

The costly ‘motherhood penalty’ and how one country is erasing it

The costly ‘motherhood penalty’ and how one country is erasing it

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter For many women in the U.S. and around the world, motherhood comes with career costs. Raising children tends to lead to lower wages and fewer work hours for mothers – but not fathers – in the United States and around the world. As a sociologist, I study how family relationships can shape your economic circumstances. In the past, I’ve studied how motherhood tends to depress women’s wages, something social scientists call the “motherhood penalty.” I wondered: Can government programs that provide financial support to parents offset the motherhood penalty in earnings? A ‘motherhood penalty’ I set out with Therese Christensen, a Danish sociologist, to answer this question for moms in Denmark – a Scandinavian country with one of the world’s strongest safety nets. Several Danish policies are intended to help mothers …

Losing Our Minds: How AI Is Erasing the Space of Thought

Losing Our Minds: How AI Is Erasing the Space of Thought

Published by Sam Flores

Keep your superintelligence. The real danger is quieter: a kind of polished thoughtlessness, the production of outputs that feel increasingly less owned. I don’t fear a machine that can outthink me; I worry about a culture that forgets it thinks at all. We didn’t automate intelligence; we automated introspection out of the process. The interval in which a decision becomes mine is being thinned by default tempo. Platforms set the cadence and offer the suggestion; I supply the click. The results remain legible and impressive; but no longer feel entirely mine. Thinking is not a faster inference engine. Thinking is freedom exercised in time. It is the mind turning back on itself, testing the reason it is about to accept, granting itself the right to refuse. Attention protects that time. Judgment is the passage from many possibilities to the one I am willing to stand behind. Compress the interval and action remains, but authorship thins. Without an interval, there is no responsibility, only correct reactions. I live under the same ergonomics as everyone else. Autocomplete …