{"id":269207,"date":"2026-06-10T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/the-download-the-steroid-olympics-and-a-safer-mythos\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:25:17","slug":"the-download-the-steroid-olympics-and-a-safer-mythos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/the-download-the-steroid-olympics-and-a-safer-mythos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Download: the \u201csteroid olympics” and a safer Mythos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Download: the \u201csteroid olympics” and a safer Mythos<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/06\/10\/1138739\/the-download-steroid-olympics-enhanced-games-anthropic-mythos\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-10 08:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, at a $50 million arena built in a casino parking lot in Las Vegas, I witnessed a libertarian thought experiment come to life. The inaugural Enhanced Games were the first sporting competition where participants were encouraged to take performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n

For supporters of the event, the Enhanced Games offered a glimpse of a future in which medical advances push the human race to new heights\u2014and they never have to get old. As I watched the games unfold, two questions bounced around my head: were they right? And what does that mean for the rest of us?<\/p>\n

Read the full story to understand the answers.<\/p>\n

MIT Technology Review Narrated: a reality check on the AI jobs hysteria<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Despite the growing hysteria over AI\u2019s threat to white-collar jobs, there\u2019s still scant evidence that the technology has had a large-scale impact on the labor market.<\/p>\n

Analysis of US labor data shows that unemployment in occupations most exposed to AI is actually lower than in less-exposed jobs. There are also no signs that large numbers of workers are shifting from AI-threatened professions into supposedly safer manual-labor jobs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that things aren\u2019t great in the job market. But the reason isn\u2019t simply the rise of AI.<\/p>\n

\u2014David Rotman<\/p>\n

This is our latest <\/strong>story<\/strong> to be turned into an MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we publish each week on <\/strong>Spotify<\/strong> and <\/strong>Apple Podcasts<\/strong>. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated on either platform, and follow us to get all our new content as it\u2019s released.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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