Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 60 - 97° 🌤️ | 10% 💧 Salt Lake City: 77 - 102° 🌤️ | 10% 💧 St. George: 79 - 108° ☀️ After nearly going under during the pandemic, movie theaters are back in business. But the cinematic experience is about much more than what's on the screen, Meg Walter writes. Namely, concessions. "So when I see 'Barbie' for the fourth time," Meg declares, "it will be where I know I can raise my bucket of freshly popped and properly seasoned popcorn and cup of crisp, artificially sweetened soda to the hopefully long and bright future of cinema." Tell me: What is one of your most memorable cinematic experiences? Also on our mind: Why Rep. John Curtis thinks lawmakers can find bipartisan solutions on clean energy, what's causing Utah teacher burnout and why BYU football's Isaac Rex and Kedon Slovis need each other. |
| Watch out, smarty-pants: College-educated and higher-paid workers most at risk for replacement by AI, according to new report |
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| | A recent analysis published in March by financial giant Goldman Sachs estimated that around two-thirds of jobs in the U.S. are exposed to at least some degree of automation by artificial intelligence, "and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work." So, who should be most concerned about losing their job to an AI-driven digital system? Surprisingly, and unlike past labor-disrupting technologies, AI is most likely to affect college-educated and higher-paid workers, according to a new study from Pew Research released Wednesday. Researchers say the job activities that AI excels at replacing include “getting information” and “analyzing data or information” and “working with computers.” Examples include: Budget analysts Data entry keyers Tax preparers Technical writers Web developers Professions consisting of physical activities, like barber and plumber, for example, are less at risk of disruption by AI technology, the study found. Salt Lake City barber shop owner Isaac Atencio said he wasn’t at all surprised to hear that his profession fell into the low exposure category but noted AI tools were definitely playing a beneficial role in how he and his partner operate their business. “Obviously, the things we get a little more hands-on with are going to be the things that stick around past when AI takes over,” Atencio said. “But, that’s not to say it isn’t a tool that we can benefit from and already do." Atencio said their shop is already making use of an "AI-driven automated receptionist." "It saves us the need to hire a receptionist," Atencio said. "If the chatbot can’t answer the question the call gets kicked over to myself or my business partner.” |
Read more about how worried Utahns are about the new technology. |
| Congressional lawmakers explored the existence of extraterrestrial aircrafts, as well as the government secrecy that surrounds them, at a congressional hearing Wednesday. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability attempted to peel back the curtain on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, with one witness going so far as to say that the government could have the remains of nonhuman bodies from a UAP crash. Brian Lindley, the Utah state director at the Mutual UFO Network, a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization that researches UFO sightings, told the Deseret News prior to the hearing that viewers should expect “whistleblowers at the highest level of government and military coming forward to testify about direct knowledge of reverse engineering programs as well unknown material and craft well beyond human technology.” “It is believed that nonhuman craft and technologies have been buried in special access programs for decades that even our highest officials are unaware of and have been denied access to in years past,” Lindley, a certified field investigator, said. At the hearing Wednesday, the committee invited to the stand expert witnesses, including David Grusch, a former national reconnaissance officer with the Defense Department’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force. “As I’ve stated publicly already ... biologics came with some of these (UFO crash) recoveries,” said Grusch. “I’m guessing nonhuman biologics. That was the assessment of people with direct knowledge of the program I talked to,” he said, adding that he is open to sharing video evidence and other information behind closed doors. Read more about Congress' efforts to declassify information on UFOs. More in Politics Why Rep. John Curtis thinks lawmakers can find bipartisan solutions on clean energy (Deseret News) House committee looks at generational learning loss amid COVID-19 pandemic (Deseret News) McConnell episode alarms Senate GOP (Politico) | FROM OUR SPONSOR SALT LAKE PARADE OF HOMES Get ready to be amazed at this year's Salt Lake Parade of Homes event! The Salt Lake Parade of Homes is America’s 1st Parade, celebrating 77 years of fulfilling dreams. Come see “New Possibilities and Creative Ideas” July 28 - August 12, open Tuesday - Saturday 12:00pm - 9:00pm. Buy your tickets today for $3 OFF. Use Promo Code: Parade23 | Health The most dangerous summer activities for kids, according to ER physicians (Deseret News) Bad posture can impact your mental health — here’s what to do about it (Deseret News) Business and Economy More places selling alcohol are using facial, palm and iris recognition to verify age (Deseret News) Still hot U.S. economy drives Fed back to rate hike mantra after June pause (Deseret News) UPS reaches $30 billion tentative deal with Teamsters, delaying concerns of strikes (Deseret News) Education The Deseret News Editorial Board: What is causing teacher burnout in Utah? (Deseret News) Education Department opens investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions. Here’s what you need to know (Deseret News) Salt Lake and Utah Counties Environmental justice report shows air quality disparities on Salt Lake City's west side (KSL) Salt Lake City begins to piece together plans for 'transformative' EPA funding (KSL) Provo police looking for man on parole for aggravated murder; girlfriend arrested (KSL) The West ‘No good deed goes unpunished’: Why Utah and other states fear BLM rule (Deseret News) Judge rejects U.S. asylum restrictions, jeopardizing Biden policy aimed at deterring illegal border crossings (CBS News) The Nation Hunter Biden plea deal in jeopardy after judge questions its scope (Deseret News) Staci Robison, Sara Jones, Shelly Johnson, Jini Roby and Kari Holt Larson: 46 years after adoption, she didn’t know she wasn’t a U.S. citizen. Now she’s advocating to update the law (Deseret News) The World Ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars ablaze off Dutch coast, crew member dead (Reuters) U.S. Says Main Thrust of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun (New York Times 🔒) Sports Latter-day Saint returned missionary is ready to play pro basketball in Germany, become a father (Church News) Big 12 men’s golf: For BYU, life on the links just got tougher (Deseret News) Why Isaac Rex and Kedon Slovis need each other (Deseret News) Who has biggest Big 12 travel challenge in 2023? Teams on the edge (Deseret News) | Marley Bramble, right, and Jady Tippetts share their experience as the family of an organ donor at an event held to celebrate the milestone of 600 lifesaving transplants by the Intermountain heart transplant team at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray on Tuesday. Bramble and Tippetts lost their 22-year-old daughter in February. (Photo: Megan Nielsen, Deseret News) Read more about Intermountain's heart transplant team and the lives effected. |
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