Roundup: Service and emotional support animals; Using AI; Privacy and AI; Family size discrimination; Sharing data with AI

Emotional support animals have less training and the standards are less rigorous than service animals, so it's harder to qualify bringing service dogs to work. But this case is not a blanket holding that emotional support animals can never be a valid accommodation. State laws also matter here.

AI doesn't give us answers; it helps us ask better questions. And sometimes, maybe even often, that requires more work not less. The problem is not that AI is doing all of this fancy computing. The problem is that we think it can replace people for anything that actually matters.

As we consider whether and how we use AI, it's also important to understand what new data gets collected, where it goes, what happens to it, and what else it can be used for. Maybe we don't really want everything on the record.

A male manager claims he was passed up for promotion because he had seven kids. He had seven kids, at least in part, because of his religion. It's potential religious discrimination and a fascinating case..

There are some eye-popping stats in this article about employees using free or unauthorized AI at work. But it was the data was being fed to AI systems that has me completely gobsmacked. Yikes. Finance, legal, employee records, and passwords. A kazillion yikes!