Shoplifting, Broke Millennial Myth, Should We Regulate AI?

NYC Shoplifting [1:35]
A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts (The New York Times, 4/15/23)
A THIRD of NYC’s retail theft is driven by just 327 seasoned shoplifters — professional crooks ransack pharmacies and department stores and resell on eBay (Daily Mail, 4/17/23)
Is there really a shoplifting ‘epidemic?’ (Poynter, 3/3/23)
NYC shoplifting hit record highs last year: ‘We can’t stop them’ (New York Post, 2/10/23)
Stores say shoplifting is a national crisis. The numbers don’t back it up (CNN, 1/18/23)
The Great Shoplifting Freak-Out (The Atlantic, 12/23/21)
What the Panic Over Shoplifting Reveals About American Crime Policy (The Marshall Project, 2/27/23)
The recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you). (New York Magazine, 1/18/23)
Retail theft is worse than ever (The Daily News, 2/15/23)
CompStat (Police Department City of New York)
Organized Retail Crime: An Assessment of a Persistent and Growing Threat (National Retail Federation / K2 Integrity, 4/13/23)
2022 Retail Security Survey (National Retail Federation)
Shoplifting and Other Types of Petit Larceny in New York City (Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 4/14/23)
Prosecuting serial NYC shoplifter would’ve been ‘a waste of resources:’ Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (New York Post, 11/29/22)
NYPD brass rip bail reform while shouting out recently-freed repeat offender on live TV (New York Post, 11/28/22)
Lawmakers express outrage over NYC’s ‘revolving door’ shoplift crisis that’s killing local businesses (New York Post, 1/9/23)

Broke Millennial Myth [21:37]
The Myth of the Broke Millennial (The Atlantic, 4/17/23)
Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations (Pew Research, 2/14/19)
Millennials are not as badly off as they think — but success is bittersweet (Financial Times, 4/6/23)
The unluckiest generation in U.S. history (The Washington Post, 6/5/20)
Millennials on their very real fears about money (The New York Times, 7/11/22)
Half of Millennials Own Homes. The Rest Fear They Never Will (Bloomberg, 4/19/23)
60% of millennials earning over $100,000 say they’re living paycheck to paycheck (Insider, 9/16/21)
70 percent of millennials are living paycheck to paycheck, report says (The Hill, 2/17/22)
Information on the Economic Status of Millennial Households Compared to Previous
Generations (United States Government Accountability Office, 12/19)

Should We Regulate AI? [40:46]
The Surprising Thing A.I. Engineers Will Tell You if You Let Them (The New York Times, 4/16/23)
Chuck Schumer’s Hasty Plan To Regulate Artificial Intelligence Is a Really Bad Idea (Reason, 4/14)
Regulating AI (Texas A&M Today, 4/11/23)
Self-Regulation Is the Standard in AI, for Now (Datanami, 4/17/23)
I’m a Congressman Who Codes. A.I. Freaks Me Out. (The New York Times, 1/3/23)
Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor (The Register, 3/12/23)
The takeaways from Stanford’s 386-page report on the state of AI (Tech Crunch, 4/3/23)
Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence (Stanford, 3/23)
Scoop: Schumer lays groundwork for Congress to regulate AI (Axios, 4/13/23)
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter (Future of Life Institute, 3/22/23)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the challenges of regulating AI (MIT Sloan, 11/7/22)
Don’t Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Starve It (Scientific American, 5/4/20)
Schumer Launches Major Effort To Get Ahead Of Artificial Intelligence (Senate Democrats, 4/13)
Whose Opinions Do Language Models Reflect? (Arxiv, 3/20/23)
Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence (Stanford, 3/2023)
Policymaking in The Pause (Future of Life Institute, 4/12/23)