🍭 The Responsibility Hot Potato 🥔

Good morning. Someone just told a government agency “good enough” is the goal, and everyone nodded like that was normal.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• DOT wants AI drafting “good enough“ transportation rules

• Hiring goes algorithmic as Indeed turns job filtering into AI infrastructure

• Microsoft unveils Maia 200, its inference chip built to run models cheaper

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U.S.A
🚧 Government By Autocomplete

The Bite:
The U.S. Department of Transportation is experimenting with using Google Gemini to help write federal transportation regulations.

This isn’t about spell-check or summarizing memos.
The AI is being used to draft actual regulatory language.

Officials say it’s about speed. DOT’s top lawyer put it this way:

“We don’t need the perfect rule.”
“We want good enough.”

Internal staff say it feels like responsibility is being quietly handed off.

If a rule is flawed, unsafe, or unclear, it’s no longer obvious who owns the outcome.
And that’s a new problem for systems designed to keep planes in the air and pipelines from leaking.

Snacks:

• Gemini is being tested to draft regulatory text, not just assist research

• DOT employees raised concerns about accuracy, nuance, and accountability

• Transportation rules govern aviation, rail, trucking, and hazardous materials

• AI errors here mean real-world risk, not simply bad copy.

• The push aligns with broader efforts to shrink agencies while doing more

Why it Bites:
There’s a big difference between “AI helps us do this” and “AI did this.”
The first keeps humans on the hook. The second creates a buffer.

If the rule works, leadership gets credit for efficiency.
If it fails, the blame drifts to the model, or the system.

That’s convenient when you’re replacing specialized experts with software that can’t be cross-examined, fired, or held accountable.

Supporters of the plan also point to speed, saying the process could go from months to minutes.
It makes me wonder: are they really going to review it afterward? I mean, isn’t that their job?

In every case:
Speed is winning.
Quality is optional.
Responsibility is getting fuzzy.

And somehow, we’re all expected to just… accept that.

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🧑‍💼 Hiring, But Make It Algorithmic

The Bite:
Indeed says AI is becoming core infrastructure for hiring, not a side feature.

The goal isn’t to reinvent work. It’s to cope with volume.
Too many applicants, too few recruiters, and a labor market already stretched thin.

AI now helps rank candidates, surface “best fits,” and guide hiring decisions at scale.

For companies, this looks like relief.
For workers, it quietly raises the bar just to be seen.

Snacks:

• Indeed uses AI to filter, rank, and match candidates faster

• Recruiters rely on AI to narrow massive applicant pools

• Hiring already excludes most candidates before human review

• AI formalizes rules that were once implicit and fuzzy

• The system reflects what companies ask for.

Why it bites:
Well, most resumes already disappear into systems no human fully reviews.
AI doesn’t invent that reality. It sharpens it.

Platforms like Indeed sell the ability to translate companies’ preferences into filters. And then feedback scores, rankings and probabilities for the workers.

Y’know when you don’t get the job and instead you get a poor excuse in one sentence?
Well, now you’ll get some pretty numbers to help you accept it.
And to reinforce that the problem is on you.

For employers, this is automation.
For workers, it’s just another day.

AI doesn’t make hiring unfair.
It makes the existing unfairness “based”.

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🧠 You Need to Know

💾 Micron Drops $24B on Singapore Expansion
→ Micron will expand NAND and high-bandwidth memory production as AI demand strains global chip supply through at least 2027.

🤖 Transportation Rules May Get an AI Assist
→ The U.S. Transportation Department is testing Google’s Gemini to help draft regulations, sparking internal concerns about accuracy and oversight.

⚡ Microsoft Launches Maia 200 AI Chip
→ Maia 200 is Microsoft’s custom inference accelerator designed to cut costs and scale AI workloads across Azure.

🧑‍💼 Indeed Says AI Is Now Core to Hiring
→ Indeed is baking AI into job search and recruiting tools to improve matching, discovery, and hiring efficiency.

🍎 Apple Reportedly Prepping Gemini-Powered Siri
→ Apple is expected to unveil a Gemini-powered Siri upgrade in February, signaling a bigger generative AI push.