Are GenZ and new grads just being spoilt with their approach to AI? Or are they justified in feeling threatened by a technology that targets them? This week's roundup has some positives from executives starting to understand that young professionals have genuine reasons to fear, and they need help 1️⃣ A new YouGov poll finds 55% of 18 to 24 year olds would erase AI for good, the highest of any age group 2️⃣ Stanford finds young workers in the jobs most exposed to AI are losing out, while older workers in the same jobs are fine 3️⃣ The FCA won't write new rules for AI. It says the rules it already has are enough to hold firms to account 4️⃣ KPMG's own report on the upside of AI turned out to be full of made-up sources, so it quietly pulled it 5️⃣ A judge threw all four lawyers off a case after both sides handed in briefs citing cases AI had invented 🫣 6️⃣ OpenAI has filed to go public at an $852bn valuation 💸 7️⃣ The UK 🇬🇧government is spending £20m to keep entry-level jobs open for young people 8️⃣ Microsoft's president says the graduates booing AI are telling the industry what it needs to hear 9️⃣ Crédit Agricole's CEO is putting €500m into AI and says he won't cut any jobs 🔟 Opendoor is closing its India office, letting 250 people go, and hiring in the US instead 🔖 See the full Finance Upturned issue for what all this means for finance professionals

AI writing is abominable, here's a regeneration of a real blog I found The em dash used to be a sign of AI writing but for some reason it's now way way worse Here's a teardown of this blog 1⃣ The title starts with a figure of speech - Antithesis: when humans write, it's typically one coherent strand in a title and rarely with such rhetorical fluorish. The two full stops are also a dead giveaway 2⃣Short sentences: if you want to know how odd this is, read out the first 2 lines (4 sentences) out loud. The left panel squeezes 52 words into 9 sentences with the shortest sentence having just one word. A natural writing style comes close to speaking cadence and combines sentences into paragraphs that support the main point. 3⃣Three clipped words (Tricolon) where one smooth sentence would do. And the main message in the staccato construction serves to emphasise the point made in previous sentence. 4⃣Negative parallelism: this short section of three sentences packs four different figures of speech. The main one is negative parallelism, two short sentences containing ‘never’ then dropping the word to deliver the punch line ‘judgement’. Tricolon, Anaphora and Asyndeton are also squeezed in Simply amazing! 5⃣The chain: the last word of one sentence becomes the first of the next, so each line seems to follow from the one before. In isolation, each of these figures of speech may sound smart and lends the author authority. Stacked tightly as it is in the full writing, you can’t avoid a feeling of deception. As a reader, I get the sense that the “author” could not bother to write with their own character, experience and distinct style. If they’ve fully delegated writing to a robot, then there’s not likely to be any value in reading it. I could just go generate the same thing on my own