Fatima Shaikh, MBA

Exploring the United Nations system and Sociology. I am a UC Berkeley BA in Sociology and also a MBA, HR and Org Behavior and Marketing.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

The widespread use of LLMs diminishes creative ideas.

An analysis of over 2000 college essays finds that human-written essays contributed more new ideas than GPT-4 written essays https://t.co/yTyr3U05Dw

Enhancing GPT's creative diversity through parameter- or prompt-modifications does not mitigate the creativity gap.

[Robb Willer @RobbWiller]

Whoa, what?

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

Contrary to the heteropessisism online, there's good news about egalitarian marriage in the latest time diary data: men's housework contributions are converging with women's and the gender gap is smaller than it's ever been.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The UN General Assembly has adopted a Ghana-led resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity,” passing despite opposition from the US, Israel, Argentina, and European countries.

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

The English-speaking world is falling in rankings of life satisfaction (The Economist)

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

The drop in global perceptions of the US is 100% because of Donald Trump. Clear as day.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

This is wild.

People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US.

The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician.

Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive.

And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless.

Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.”

For five hundred years, the idea was the prize.

The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed.

That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for.

Gone.

A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses.

A thousand of them. Before dinner.

The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room.

Now it is the cheapest.

But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow.

Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.”

Sit with that.

We automated creation.

We did not automate truth.

We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon.

We cannot tell you which ones are real.

That is not a gap. That is a chasm.

And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now.

Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.”

The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce.

Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate.

That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it.

Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output.

They are now absorbing machine-speed volume.

And they are cracking under it.

Tao compared it to the internet.

The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside.

AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself.

Infinite generation. Zero verification.

The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less.

The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more.

That is the inversion nobody is processing.

Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content.

Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct.

And that is the only system that matters.

Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market.

They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through.

The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer.

The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real.

And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand.

That is not a research problem.

That is the race beneath the race.

And almost nobody has entered it.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Sen. Bernie Sanders: "I think all over the country, people are saying, 'Wait a minute, we can't afford housing. We can't afford health care. We can't afford childcare. We can't afford food at the grocery store.' And this war now, which will cost hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, why? Why the bomb buildings in Tehran? Why force a million people in Lebanon from their homes? So it's not just progressives and Democrats...I think the polling suggests that whether you're Republicans or Democrats, this is not a war that the American people want."

[Annalena Baerbock @UN_PGA]

“Peace cannot exist without justice, and justice cannot exist where discrimination persists.” - Desmond Tutu
As we mark 60 years since the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was established, we are reminded that racism persists worldwide.
It violates rights, deepens inequality, and threatens peace.
Ending discrimination is ongoing work - demanding vigilance and the strengthening of accountability and equality.

[International Labour Organization @ilo]

Modern slavery still exists in every region of the world.

In 2021, an estimated 50 million people were living in modern slavery, including 27.6 million in forced labour.

We must strengthen action to end exploitation and ensure dignity and #DecentWork for all. #RememberSlavery

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.

But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

As we commemorate the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, let's reject narratives of fear & exclusion.

Let's work together to eradicate the rising tide of anti-Muslim hatred & bigotry.

Let's build a world rooted in respect, inclusion, justice & peace.

https://t.co/O0jhUvmBNG

[IMF @IMFNews]

Sub‑Saharan Africa is shifting from external borrowing to domestic debt, bringing new resilience but also new risks, Amadou Sy and Athene Laws write in F&D magazine. https://t.co/jKztLg7esy

[IMF @IMFNews]

Nearly 60% of India’s firms already use some form of AI, well above global averages. AI can make businesses more efficient, speed up technology diffusion, and strengthen innovation, but skill gaps remain a challenge. More in our Country Focus blog. https://t.co/dVx8RJFnZm

[IMF @IMFNews]

Europe once led the world in productivity but now trails the US by about 20%. The problem is scale: too many companies remain small. More capital, labor, and consumer markets integration can help innovative companies scale up. https://t.co/rbLkMMmZPi

[IMF @IMFNews]

Widening inequality weakens demand and forces economies to rely on debt to grow. Over time, that cycle fuels fiscal fragility, @Princeton's @AtifRMian writes in F&D magazine. https://t.co/R8Pl2eUCQR

[Kristalina Georgieva @KGeorgieva]

Europe has the talent, ambition, innovation, and savings to regain its productivity edge. The key is scaling up through deeper integration, stronger investment, and reforms that allow firms and ideas to grow across borders: https://t.co/foXm8T9lwk

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

More than 700 million women still lack access to a financial account holding back their ability to save, invest & build businesses. Closing this gap can unlock jobs & boost growth worldwide.

Learn how the World Bank Group is helping change that: https://t.co/T2LKkRRKY5

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

When health systems work, economies thrive.

Each health job can support up to 3.5 more. Reaching 1.5B people with quality, affordable care by 2030 could create 29M jobs.

👉 Learn more: https://t.co/I9ay2IBqaO