Given a list, the sorts of things Americans are comfortable with AI doing tend to be impersonal or even boring tasks, as well as those that less directly impact them, like proofreading or searching online.
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Anthony Salvanto,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
This includes a comic scene about proofreading the monotonous legal documents that clerks like Bartleby were paid pennies to copy, and a scene at the end where a jail cook rattles off all the former occupations of its now-nameless inmates.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
When perusing closets, drawers, and jewelry boxes, look for items that are labeled or stamped.
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Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
28 Apr. 2026
Kids get into all sorts of things on the internet, but no parent wants young children perusing adult websites, so a number of US states and several countries have implemented age-verification laws that require websites to confirm that their visitors are not minors.
Ryan’s diagnosis of Horner after more than 18 hours of interviewing him as well as speaking to other witnesses and reviewing records listed 10 conditions including autism, ADHD, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
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Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2026
Those tensions hit a new high when Reuters published an internal Defense Department email last week that proposed punishing Britain for its position on Iran by reviewing America’s position on the Falkland Islands.
The study creates new criteria for deciphering old dice and allows archaeologists to further explore how games have evolved over time, researchers say.
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Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
The clicks are part of a growing sperm whale phonetic alphabet that researchers at CETI are deciphering.
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