The Guardian AI•6 days ago·4 min read
Nobel laureates and human rights abuses | Brief letters
Abiy Ahmed | AI job losses | Deer ruminations | Harry Belafonte | Stephen Yaxley‑Lennon
In reference to your report about 112 Nobel laureates calling on Iran to release the gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi )(12 May), I write to note the irony that Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, has had under his leadership several activists imprisoned for protesting against human rights violations and a profound undemocratic social order since he was awarded the Nobel prize for peace in 2019. Perhaps the global community of Nobel laureates will next chastise one of their own.
Sehin Teferra
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• It will not only be the students feeling restless (Third of university students in Great Britain think AI job losses will cause social unrest, poll finds, 19 May). Many parents have spent time and money encouraging their children through university, with the prospect of a good job afterwards. Now they find their offspring are back at home, owing to the lack of decent entry-level jobs, which makes renting and commuting unaffordable.
Catherine Mowat
London
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