Boris Soroker

Right now, workers are potentially training AI how to make them obsolete. And they often don’t realize it.

The kind of AI used by companies, called an enterprise AI system, can capture everything you do at work and use that information to train itself. These systems can record your interactions within the platform—the prompts you write, the documents you create, the queries you run.

In other words, the company can potentially track—and claim ownership of—every keystroke you make within the system, every idea you document there, every tool you build using that platform.


This dynamic may fundamentally change the relationship between employer and employee. The stakes are so high and so urgent that both sides are rushing to position (or protect) themselves. Executives are rapidly implementing enterprise AI systems, seeking productivity gains and competitive advantage—and they often aren’t disclosing the implications for job security and privacy. Meanwhile, at least some employees are secretly adopting personal AI tools, sometimes violating corporate policies, so that their employers can’t capture everything they know and do.

Individual opt-out of AI is often impossible, so unions and professional associations need to pay attention. With collective bargaining, workers could demand transparency about the use of enterprise AI and demand fair compensation for the knowledge it gathers. Without collective power, individual employees will keep clicking “accept” on agreements that restructure their jobs simply because they have no alternative.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-knowledge-capture-employees-a69a0e1c

A joint toxicological investigation concluded that Navalny, who died while serving a sentence on what his supporters and Western governments said were trumped-up charges, was most likely poisoned with epibatidine—a highly potent toxin derived from South American poison dart frogs. The substance doesn’t occur naturally in Russia.

“Navalny died in prison, meaning the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to administer this poison,” the governments of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said in a joint statement.

Navalny, the most prominent domestic critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, appeared in good health and high spirits in video footage recorded days before his death at the notoriously harsh penal colony known as “Polar Wolf.” Officials said the symptoms he reportedly experienced—paralysis, acute pain and respiratory failure—are consistent with epibatidine poisoning.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/navalny-killed-by-poison-frog-toxin-european-governments-say-7ca4b388