MIT AI researcher warns replacing Gen Z with automation could be a billion-dollar mistake

MIT AI researcher warns replacing Gen Z with automation could be making a billion-dollar mistake | World News

Companies racing to replace entry-level employees with artificial intelligence may be saving money in the short term, but they could be creating a much bigger problem for the future, according to an MIT research scientist. Andrew McAfee, who co-leads the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, has warned that automating away junior…

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Meet Marvin Minsky: MIT professor who predicted today's Anthropic-style multi-agent AI nearly 40 years ago and became the founding father of artificial intelligence

Meet Marvin Minsky: MIT professor who predicted today’s Anthropic-style multi-agent AI nearly 40 years ago and became the founding father of artificial intelligence | World News

Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works. In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one all-powerful brain but the result…

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‘First casualty of the fusion wars’: Killing of MIT’s top nuclear scientist Nuno Loureiro sparks online speculation

‘First casualty of the fusion wars’: Killing of MIT’s top nuclear scientist Nuno Loureiro sparks online speculation | World News

The killing of Nuno Loureiro, a leading nuclear fusion scientist and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, has shocked the global scientific community and fuelled a wave of online speculation about possible motives. Loureiro, 47, was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15, 2025. Police have confirmed the…

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