8 Battery makers are finding a new market in the US
They’re pivoting from EVs to grid storage. (WSJ $)
+ Batteries just broke another record in the US. (MIT Technology Review)
9 A humanist has received a religious exemption from using AI at work
He argued that using it undermined human flourishing. (Gizmodo)
10 Psychics are fighting back against computerized clairvoyance
Human practitioners say chatbots lack the divine touch. (Guardian)
Quote of the day
“Rizz is in more and more demand because it’s something that only people have.”
—Steven Strogatz, a mathematics professor at Cornell University, tells Business Insider that personal appeal will become more valuable as AI increasingly takes over intellectual work.
One more thing
The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI
In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers arrived in stocking feet at Mox, a shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. They gathered to discuss a provocative idea: if artificial general intelligence is on the horizon, could it prevent animal suffering?
Some brainstormed using custom agents in advocacy work, while others pitched cultivating meat with AI tools. But the real talk of the event was a flood of funding they expect will soon flow to animal welfare charities, not from individual megadonors, but from AI lab employees.