Rachael Myrow
@rachaelmyrow.bsky.social
@KQEDNews | @NPRNews | Experts: "Formidable Provenance"+"The Queen of Succinct"
The surge in construction of fossil-fueled power plants to run AI data centers is set to undo 15 years’ worth of greenhouse gas reductions from US electricity generation
US Data Centers Could Undo 15 Years of Declines in Power Emissions
Data center developers are turning to natural gas to meet AI’s immense electricity demand.
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Pa Vue is a telephone triage nurse with Kaiser Permanente. She works the night shift, from midnight to 8:30 a.m., from her home. Vue’s job is to calmly assess each caller as they describe their concerns and symptoms, looking for red flags signaling a heart attack or stroke.
#ICYMI The case against former @openai-m.extwitter.link engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan leans partly on chatbot prompts investigators tied back to him. You don’t have to be under investigation for that to matter. Take a moment to check what your favorite chatbot is keeping on you. 😶🌫️
“Everyone clicked through and agreed to the privacy policy,” said Robbie Torney of @commonsensemedia.bsky.social. “But I don’t know if there was, especially for teenagers, a real understanding that, down the line, in the future, the contents of these chats might become public or be sold.”
In plain English, the fight to control which AI agents get to guide our shopping decisions is on.
“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman
Most of us grown-ups can't put our #AI chatbots down either. But a new review says ChatGPT's teen safeguards don't work as promised: no parent alerts during hour-long chats about self-harm, and a "Show me the answer" button for homework. @openai-m.extwitter.link calls the findings inaccurate.
“This was rent that didn’t get paid, food that wasn’t there for hungry kids. We’ve waited six years for this,” said Alvaro Bolainez, vice president of Rideshare Drivers United, a union representing over 20,000 drivers, in a statement.
. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social criticized President Trump’s #AI industry-friendly inaction at an hour-long event with reporters Wednesday. He also had harsh words specifically for Trump’s self-regulation accord. “That should scare the hell out of everybody.”
“Every day you turn on the television, it seems like AI is doing something else bad,” said subcommittee chair Sen Hawley. “Setting up surveillance camera networks nationwide, data centers in all of our states, and hacking, hacking. The reports of cyber attacks just continue to metastasize.”
Back when I was hosting the California Report for @kqednews.kqed.org, I got to know the delightfully erudite pomologist David Karp, and he turned me on to Andy's Orchard in Morgan Hill.
Seriously, if you're curious what an engaging conversation about the national debt sounds like, give a listen. My guests Scott Horsley, Talmon Joseph Smith and Maya MacGuineas were FABULOUS! 😍 www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Can Anyone Solve America’s $40 Trillion Debt Problem? | KQED
We talk to economic experts about the current and future impacts, and whether there’s a solution.
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What a week! You'll recall the AGs v Meta trial in Oakland came to a screeching halt with a settlement announced and approved on Wednesday. And as the smoke clears, we ask "IS this a good deal, tho?" For children? For parents?
#ICYMI Meta’s landmark child safety settlement with 47 states+ set a new industry standard for child and teen tech protections, reshaping how young people interact with social media. @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov warned other tech titans, including the owners of #TikTok, #snapchat and #YouTube.
Do you work at Meta and work on this logo? DM me and let’s talk (anonymously!) ✉️ cyd.01 on Signal
Gazetteer SF@sf.gazetteer.co · 2mo ago"This new logo keeps the hokey but adds the corporate soullessness of a salad slop chain, like a down-market Sweetgreen," one designer told us — but their peers don't all agree. We rounded up four design experts and asked what they think about Instagram's much-maligned new logo:
Heading into Week 2 of AGs v Meta in Oakland, the fight moves from what the world's largest social media giant knew to whether social media actually harms kids. San Diego State University's Jean Twenge says the evidence shows a clear causal path.
Whistleblower Arturo Béjar acknowledged that Meta hired highly hundreds of well-qualified people to work on safety. But, he said, the company also elided the psychological harm it caused children behind euphemistic language and misleading metrics. “Safety and security was an afterthought.”
🧵 On #DayOne of the Meta youth-addiction trial in Oakland, Deputy AG for California Megan O’ Neill told Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (and advisory jury), “We’re not here to hold Meta responsible for bad people who post bad things.”
🎙️TUESDAY at 9 am PST on KQED Forum: In 1962, Rachel Carson warned us that the chemicals we spray on our fields don't stay in the fields. Sixty years later, the pesticides are still with us, and PFAS, and microplastics. So where does that leave us — the public in public health?
🎙️MONDAY at 9 am PST on @kqedforum.bsky.social: Remember when we were all told to bring our full selves to work? That’s in the rear view mirror now. 🫠 Claire Stapleton spent twelve years helping tell Google’s story from the inside.
#isthisatrend #orjustvibes Google's Play Store started opening up to rival app stores in the US under a court order stemming from the case lost to Epic. Then, the European Comm fined Google @$1 Bil. "Google lost. And I think that perception will affect juries going forward." - @tnarecha.bsky.social
#huggingface 🤗 OpenAI and Anthropic are the only two frontier AI developers that have publicly disclosed a containment failure... which is not the same as being the only two to have had one.
"My dad’s fame, especially with Phantasm, is for a particular subset of humanity: Gen X males. Every now and then here at KQED, some guy of a certain age will rush up to me and say, ‘Rachael Myrow, are you related to Fred Myrow?" www.kqed.org/arts/1381319...
An Iconic Horror Soundtrack's Surprising KQED Connection | KQED
The Tall Man has a strange connection to KQED -- are you brave enough to investigate?
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🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Few stories move us the way Homer’s Odyssey does. The ancient Greek epic about a war hero’s circuitous and messy journey home to his wife and son is so provocative, and so weird, it’s inspired multiple translations over the generations.
#RememberWhen Dario Amodei predicted AI would replace software engineers in 6–12 months? And Sam Altman warned entry-level white-collar jobs were about to go the way of the 🦕🦕? Not to throw my compatriots 👩🏻💻🧑🏾💻under the 🚌, but many in the tech press are hard-wired to note the layoffs vs the hirings.
Check out Catherine Breed's progress swimming along the CA coast in July at www.swimcalifornia.com
Swim California
Swim California
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Rachael Myrow@rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 4mo ago🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Catherine Breed will join me to talk about how she plans in July to start to swim along the coast of California, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one. If she succeeds, swimming about 5 hours a day for 3-4 months, she'll be the first to have done this thing.
🎙️At 10 AM on @kqedforum.bsky.social Catherine Breed will join me to talk about how she plans in July to start to swim along the coast of California, from the Oregon border to the Mexican one. If she succeeds, swimming about 5 hours a day for 3-4 months, she'll be the first to have done this thing.
Three years after this 2023 strike, the fight over AI's March on Hollywood has only gotten hotter. Coming up at 10 AM Tuesday on @kqedforum.bsky.social, I'll talk about "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" with Steven Zeitchik of The Hollywood Reporter and Peter Murrieta of the @wgawest.bsky.social.
RIP David Hockney, an English immigrant to California, whose saturated, sun-drenched paintings captured the dreamlike, sultry quality so many of us appreciate most about life in the "Golden State." For @kqedarts.bsky.social a few years back, I got to witness him young artists in East Palo Alto.
