Notes and links - 8th March

This Is How the Every Editorial Team Uses AI

We’re publishing our editorial guidelines, plus the workflows our writers, editors, and producers have built around them

EveryKate Lee

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete

Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.

The Artist EconomyJoel Gouveia

The Government That Runs on Projects: Why Whitehall Is the Best Evidence Against the PDO

The public sector has been “Powered by Projects” for decades. The NAO keeps documenting what happens.

Thriving in TurbulenceNeil Walker Influxion

Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker?

As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate some policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement.

The New YorkerJohn Cassidy

"As an example of how A.I. could be used in a pro-worker fashion, the report points to an Electrician’s Assistant (EA), developed by Schneider Electric, a French-based multinational company. When confronted by a tricky problem, the electrician feeds information and pictures into an assistant, which is a large language A.I. model. The assistant conducts a diagnosis and issues recommendations, in an iterative fashion, for how to fix the problem. It also helps the electrician file maintenance reports, and the paper cites evidence that the time spent on this task has been halved." ///// "Last week, Burger King said that it’s testing new A.I.-powered headsets, which can be used, among other things, to check whether its customer-service employees say “please” and “thank you.”