Bank of Canada governor warns AI could be weighing on youth employment 

Artificial intelligence may already be cutting into entry-level job opportunities for young people in Canada, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said Thursday, as he outlined a set of structural forces reshaping the country’s economic future. Speaking in Toronto, he said Canada is facing long-term changes driven by three forces: rising trade barriers with the […]

Wikipedia positions itself as a defence against AI slop

The Wikimedia Foundation announced in January that it is partnering with major AI companies, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity, to integrate Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects into their systems. The stated aim is to feed AI models with “human-governed knowledge” — content written, reviewed and enforced by people rather than generated en […]