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the enormous gamble behind AI data centers and why we're all exposed, Business Insider examines the conveniently timed calls for an AI slowdown, and Anthropic offers a much more optimistic economic future with some substantial assumptions and unanswered questions.

Those are the headlines.

I'm your host, Jim Love.

We are all part of the AI gamble now.

The AI industry's calls for slowdown are arriving at a remarkably convenient moment for the companies making them.

That's the argument from Business Insider's Dan DeFrancesco, who examines the business pressures behind the sudden agreement among leading AI executives.

Investors are demanding returns.

for animated films after three years according to deadline the split means future skydance animation titles will be released in theaters instead of going straight to streaming both companies say they are fully committed quote to the release of the final two films under their pact ray gunn and netflix uh on untitled jack and the beanstalk project skydance's animation first post netflix movie will be john lassiter's cosmic motors All right, Disney mandates more workers return to the office.

They're requiring that some remote workers of its products and tech teams return to the office four days a week, according to Business Insider reports.

The change brings those teams more closely into alignment with the company's overall person policy, in-person policy.

Employees who do not agree to return can be fired.

Both of those efforts serve to highlight the need for increased diversity in the cyber and national security fields.

Camille, you have been called many things over the years from a fellow at prestigious institutions like Harvard, New America, the Atlantic Council, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a member of Business Insider's AI 100, a SANS Difference Maker, a Root 100 Honoree, a Microsoft Security Changemaker of the Year, a CyberScoop 50 Cyber Industry Leadership Honoree, and the Cybersecurity Woman of the Year in the Barrier Breaker category.

Today, we are thrilled to call you a Chief Influencer.

Welcome.

has worked and spoken tirelessly on U.S. climate policy and climate solutions for many years, and has just written a new book, The Carbon Wave, a story of democracy, parenthood, and the race to protect our planet.

In recognition of her work on and advocacy for climate solutions, Leah has been named to the Time 100 Next list as one of the Business Insider's Top 30 Global Climate Leaders.

When not talking climate policy on CNN, Leah likes to garden, go on canoe trips, very Canadian, crochet, chase her twins, and spoil her cat.

Take it away, Leah.

But what happens when everybody at your job starts using it for absolutely everything? Well, companies now are trying to draw a line, creating policies around AI-generated content and telling their employees to keep a human touch in their work.

Let's discuss it here with Sarah E. Needleman, a leadership and workplace reporter at Business Insider.

Sarah, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me on it.

But to show like this is a whole, you know, everyone here at the company feels this way and we need to deal with it.

Well, the article is called AI Can Turn a Few Sentences into Pages of Prose.

Some employers have had enough and you can read it at Business Insider, where Sarah E. Needleman is a leadership and workplace reporter.

Sarah, it was a joy having you on the show.

Let me tell you a little bit about my girl, okay? She is an award-winning executive and author of The Price is Nice: Why Comfort Keeps Us Stuck and Four Actions for Real Change, a bold exploration of how niceness upholds inequity and a call to action for real change.

Named 2024 Woman of the Year by WomanHealth Care Executives, Amira has also been recognized as one of 50/50 Women on Boards Top 50 Women to Watch, Involve People's Top 100 Executives, CMO Alliance's Top CMOs, the t- uh, Top 50 Global DEI Professionals by ON Conferences, Mogul's Top 100 Leaders, Leaderology's Fearlessly Authentic Leaders, and Business Insider's 30 Under 40 in Healthcare Innovation.

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As a scholar, practitioner, and thought leader, she brings more than 20 years of expertise in strategic communications, mobilizing communities, influencing stakeholders, and driving action.