🤖 Uber Burned Its Entire AI Budget in 4 Months — And Can't Show Results

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The episode discusses Uber's rapid depletion of its AI budget, the vanishing entry-level job market, and various ethical and security challenges in AI.

AI is cracking under the weight of its own hype — and today's episode exposes the fault lines. Uber's COO just admitted the company blew through its full annual AI budget in just four months, with no clear proof it improved anything for users. Meanwhile, the entry-level job market is quietly vanishing — not showing up in headline unemployment numbers, but devastating for new graduates who are now booing AI evangelists at their own commencement ceremonies. Pope Leo XIV dropped a sweeping 42,000-word document this week using AI as a lens to examine concentrated power, eroding democracy, and what he calls digital slavery. On the security front, hackers have moved far beyond simple jailbreaks — they're now exploiting the very intelligence and personality built into modern AI systems. And the race to build AI infrastructure is running headfirst into ethics scandals, outdated energy policy, and nationalist procurement battles. Nobody has this figured out — not Google, not governments, not the Vatican. But everyone is being forced to reckon with it right now. Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.com Love AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence…

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Host: AI Daily

Topics covered

• AI budget
• job market
• digital slavery
• AI ethics
• security threats
• technology impact

Keywords

• Uber
• AI budget
• job market
• Pope Leo XIV
• digital slavery
• AI ethics
• security threats

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Organizations: Uber, Google, Vatican

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