A Chinese court has made a big decision about AI and jobs, companies cannot fire workers just to replace them with artificial intelligence and save money.
This ruling comes from recent cases in Beijing where employees lost their jobs after their companies started using AI.
The judges said these firings were wrong because using AI does not count as a major enough change under China’s labor laws.
The law needs a real big reason in the business before a company can easily end a job contract.
Because of this, the courts overturned the dismissals and the workers kept their jobs.
The ruling reminds companies that they must treat employees fairly and responsibly and helps protect people’s jobs
Hackers recently exposed parts of Discord's age verification system by discovering that the frontend code for their partner Persona was publicly accessible on the open internet.
This revealed details on how facial age estimation and ID verification are integrated.
“Persona's exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media (from mentions of terrorism to espionage), and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships.”