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BOOK BANS, DISINFORMATION, AND CULTURAL ERASURE

Cultural “erasure” silences or disappears marginalized communities, writes Jaeger, a scholar at the University of Maryland and a lifelong disabled person and activist for disability rights. “At this moment,” he writes, groups are “seeking to limit the gains made in recent years by women, BIPOC communities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, members of the Jewish faith, and disabled people.” Disinformation may be entirely invented or achieved by removing context. He provides chilling statistics on censorship and includes examples of self-censorship and neutrality claims. He presents these eleme

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United Airlines Bans AI Agents From Booking Flights On Behalf of Travelers

United Airlines is banning unauthorized third-party AI agents from booking flights, checking in passengers or making account changes on travelers' behalf. CBS News reports: To make an airline booking, an AI agent requires access to a customer's personal information, including credentials like payment information. United has a problem with that, saying that "sharing account credentials with personal, third-party, AI assistants can expose sensitive information, and actions taken by these tools may result in unintended purchases, account changes, or use of MileagePlus miles." The carrier also sai

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United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

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