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Abdul El-Sayed says public oversight needed on AI to avoid serving “interests of a few against the well-being of a many”

Washington — Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said Sunday that there are “a lot of real risks” in artificial intelligence, warning of the “pace of technological development outpace the pace of safety” amid discourse around imposing safeguards on the industry in recent days. “We collectively have to decide that we need public oversight so…

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Elon Musk’s data centers are pushing out a family that’s owned land since “before people of color were allowed to”

On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk’s family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears. The land, on the border with Tennessee in the city of Southaven, was her family’s survival, Polk said. “We lived a very simplistic life,” she…

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