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OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit33m ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history34m ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal35m ago Agent Security Is Not AI Governance: Why Conflating The Two Is A Risk Enterprises Can't Afford38m ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges45m ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 202653m ago Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports1h ago Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month1h ago D-Matrix Connects Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA AI Factories via NVLink Fusion2h ago Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)1h ago Mother Horrified When Instagram’s AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters1h ago Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B1h ago Salesforce Unveils Six-Capability Trusted AI Harness for Enterprises1h ago US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google2h ago

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AI and the collapse of the intelligence-based hierarchy of merit

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The article explores how AI, especially large language models, can both enhance and diminish human learning depending on individual motivation. It also discusses how technological shifts have historically changed the traits valued as merit, moving from physical ability to intelligence, and how AI might disrupt this hierarchy.

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