// AI_VS_HUMANS
Jobs, benchmarks, head-to-heads and human wins. The match nobody asked for.
Y Combinator researchers watched agents appoint a fertilizer official and hide in shelters. In head-to-head games, GPT played to win and Claude played fair.
404 Media's Matthew Gault got an AI-made sticker with garbled text at the polls. Elsewhere, states and towns still pay artists or run student contests.
An essay argues that AI fear repeats an old economic mistake, and that cheap intelligence could raise demand for human thinking instead of ending it.
IEEE Spectrum's editor describes a writer who used AI to fake a paper, publishers' review defenses, and Wikipedia volunteers deleting AI text by hand.
From Mount Shasta to British Columbia, rescuers report hikers following AI advice into trouble. The data on whether rescues are rising is still mixed.
Globant, EPAM and Endava are shrinking or stalling as AI cuts how many engineers a project needs. Here's where the staff augmentation business stands, who lost jobs, and what the survivors are betting on.
The president who accepted his resignation still wants more AI on campus, with one condition: leaders have to disclose how they use it.
After a 404 Media investigation, CEO Andy Yen dropped plans to make employees justify their AI use, but says AI adoption will move into performance reviews.
