AI having dual effects: From ruining livelihoods to enhancing road safety

AI having dual effects: From ruining livelihoods to enhancing road safety
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Recent developments in artificial intelligence are reshaping both digital publishing and real-world automation, raising sharp contrasts in how the technology affects human creators and public safety.

According to The Guardian, as Google expands AI Mode search, recipe writers warn that AI-generated summaries are absorbing and remixing their work, reducing website traffic and advertising income. With recipes largely uncopyrightable, bloggers say they have little protection as users increasingly rely on simplified AI results instead of visiting original sites, threatening the sustainability of ad-supported food blogs.

At the same time, researchers are showcasing AI’s potential benefits. A new system called OmniPredict, developed by Texas A&M University and KAIST, uses a multimodal large language model to anticipate pedestrian behavior in real time, SciTechDaily reported. Designed for autonomous vehicles, it goes beyond detecting movement to predicting likely human actions, outperforming existing models in early tests.

Together, the two developments highlight a widening divide: AI is simultaneously undermining creative livelihoods online while advancing tools that could make physical environments safer, intensifying debate over how the technology should be deployed and governed.