It took nearly four days for officers in Escambia County to capture so many pigs on the 8-acre (3.2-hectare) property used by In Loving Swineness Sanctuary, said John Robinson, the countys animal control director.

Last year, the sanctuary had about 150 miniature pigs that its owners were using to remove invasive cogon grass around the Florida Panhandle community of Cantonment, the Pensacola News Journal reported.

The pigs proved to be prolific procreators. Their population had grown so large, Robinson said, that the sanctuary operator called his agency last week saying: I cant take this anymore.

During the roundup, the pigs showed zero interest in cooperating with animal control officers, who left several of the larger hogs behind to ensure nobody got hurt, Robinson said.

Its so difficult when youre dealing with that many animals, Robinson said. It shouldnt be the countys responsibility to clean up somebodys mess like that. At this point, weve basically zapped our resources.

The captured pigs were divided up and trucked off to farms and other new homes outside the county.

The landowner on Tuesday was cited for violating a local zoning ordinance and ordered to pay a $250 fine. Robinson said county officials are weighing other potential sanctions against the property owner and the sanctuary operators.

The current systems are actually not very good at all at doing whole jobs, he said on Wednesday at an Economic Times event in India. Theyre very good at doing tasks. 

Using the example of a computer programmer, he said the nature of the job shifts to, you kind of manage a team of extremely, extremely junior developers that can only do one one-minute task at a time.

Of course, the tools will get better.

Some day theyll do 10-minute tasks, and then theyll do an hour task, Altman continued. But youll still have to think about, how is this all going to fit together, what do I want to build. And, you know, maybe it eventually learns that, too. 

But for now, Altman said, A.I. is more likely making workers dramatically more efficient than replacing them.

He also veered toward an argument recently made by IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and former Google CEO Eric Schmidtessentially that with declining populations in much of the world, there wont be enough people to do all the jobs that need doing, and A.I. can help by taking on some of the work.

In aggregate, all the demographics say theres going to be a shortage of humans for jobsliterally too many jobs and not enough people for at least the next 30 years, Schmidt said at the Wall Street Journals CEO Council Summit last month.

Given that, having people perform tasks that A.I. could do is not an option, Krishna said in a recent Nikkei interview. We are going to need technology to do some of the mundane work so that people can do higher-value work.

Altman added his own thoughts on this, saying, Maybe the problem is we dont have nearly enough people to do all the jobs we want to.

He continued, There is such a demand overhang in most places. If we can overnight make the world create 3X more software because we make every software developer three times more efficient, that is not nearly enoughthat does not nearly fulfill the demand the world has for software. And I think well see that in many other places.

But the fear of A.I. stealing jobs is widespread. Altmans onstage interviewer in  IndiaSatyan Gajwani, vice chairman of media company Times Internetnoted, The natural fear is that A.I. is going to make us redundant, particularly in markets like India, where we have so much of a workforce, and a lot of it oftentimes is doing somewhat rote work. Should we be worried about this?

Altman replied that every technological revolution leads to job change and acknowledged that some jobs will go away due to the ability of A.I. to do certain tasks. But he insisted that there will be new, better jobs, even if theyre difficult to imagine as we sit here and dream about what the future is going to look like.

Joseph Fuller, a Harvard Business School management professor, recently told Fortune that jobs involving rote duties will likely disappear. He gave the example of a routine contract lawyer who writes standard submissions, or someone who does the reading or summarization of business books to send out 20-page summaries, because A.I. is really good at summarization already. 

Altman remains upbeat about our future with A.I. I think the world will get way wealthier, youll have a productivity boom, and we will find a lot of new things to do, he said.

But he also warned that the speed of change with A.I. could cause problems. In two generations, we can kind of adapt to any amount of labor market changeThe thing that might be different about this is the speed with which it could happen. And I think it will require a change to the socioeconomic contract and the way governments think about this if it happens at a very fast pace.

Goldman Sachs estimated in March that while A.I. might lead to new jobs and a productivity boom, it could also expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation.

In March on the Lex Fridman podcast, Altman spoke of efforts by himself and OpenAI to support universal basic income (UBI) schemes. The idea behind UBI is that governments would give every person a tax-free, flat amount of income, regardless of their wealth or employment status. Altman told Fridman that UBI could serve as a cushion throughout a dramatic transition brought on by artificial intelligence.

In 2019, Altman cofounded Worldcoin, a crypto project that could help distribute UBI payments after verifying recipients identities via an eyeball-scanning orb-shaped device.

Altman believes we need to start thinking about UBI noweven though todays A.I. tools are better at replacing tasks than jobsbecause of how quickly the technology is improving.

Systems in the near future will be dramatically different, he said yesterday. None of the current systems matter. We are on an exponential curve, really. ChatGPT 3.5 is like the old grayscale Nokia phone, and the iPhone 14 of A.I. will be coming soon.

Now, Wasson is suing his former employer in a contract dispute with a technology startup he helped found in 2017. He claims current Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer reneged on an agreement to replace glass doors on store refrigerator displays with high-tech digital screens that would flash product information and advertisements at consumers while they were shopping for cold beverages.

Brewers decision to end a roll-out of the Smart Doors that Wasson and his partners at Cooler Screens had committed to installing at 2,500 Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. stores across the US cost their business more than $200 million, according to the complaint filed Wednesday in state court in Chicago.

Walgreens called the allegations baseless and unfounded in a statement.

Cooler Screens had sold the Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmacy chain on a pilot project with the innovative doors in 2018 before winning a nationwide contract, only to have Brewer change direction after she started as CEO in 2021, according to the complaint.

After visiting stores in which Smart Doors had been installed, Brewer decided that she did not like the way they looked, purportedly comparing the screens to Vegas in a derogatory way, lawyers for Wasson and his partners wrote. They alleged that Walgreens fabricated reasons to terminate the contract, including by citing safety defects with the Smart Doors that didnt really exist.

Cooler Screens said it spent $45 million making and installing doors in the first 700 stores, $88 million on doors that havent been installed, and more than $100 million on third-party vendors.

We are disappointed that Cooler Screens is falsely claiming that anything other than their failure to perform was the basis for the termination of our contractual relationship, Walgreens said in its statement. 

Walgreens customers gave the doors mixed reviews, according to media accounts.

Cooler Screens said in a statement that third-party consumer surveys taken earlier this year show that 79% of respondents reported that in-store digital advertising positively impacted their shopping experience, while only 6% said it had a negative effect.

In 2014, Wasson announced his retirement from Walgreens as CEO and president amid a management shakeup as the company was merging with European retailer Alliance Boots GmbH.

The case is Cooler Screens Inc. v. Walgreens Co., 2023CH05474, Illinois Circuit Court, Cook County (Chicago).

So many people became famous for bad things and were able to kind of segue it into something different, she recently told The Associated Press in her East Village apartment.

The main theme of my podcast is productive rule-breaking, she said of The Anna Delvey Show.

For now, she wants to reimagine her public image to shake her reputation of being a con artist and a scammer.

Im on 24/7 house arrest. Im only allowed to leave for my parole check-ins, my ICE check-ins and for medical emergencies, she said. Behind her is a life-size cutout of her likeness created by artist Kenny Schachter which, like Sorokin herself, is wearing an ankle monitoring device.

Going by the name Anna Delvey, she posed as a German heiress and lied about having a $67 million trust fund in order to apply for loans, run up debts and secure a historic building for a private arts club. She falsely claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat or an oil baron. Arrested in late 2017, she was convicted in 2019 on multiple counts of larceny and theft for bilking banks, hotels and wealthy New Yorkers out of $275,000.

She was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison. After serving three years in prison though about half of which was at Rikers Island jail complex Sorokin, a German citizen, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Later, she was released after posting a $10,000 bond in the fall to home confinement, pending a deportation hearing.

Now shes taking advantage of her time at home by launching a weekly podcast series that she hopes will tell her side of the story, featuring various expert and celebrity guests. Sorokins conversations with Emily Ratajkowski, Julia Fox, Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli and Ottessa Moshfegh will be on upcoming episodes, according to Reunion Audio, the podcast company.

Sorokins fraud case became the basis for the Emmy-nominated Netflix series Inventing Anna, based on a New York magazine story. Sorokin, played by three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner, said she was a consultant on the show, but didnt have any control over the final product.

For me to say Im rehabilitated would be to admit something was wrong with me to begin with. Like, I was just young. I made some mistakes, she said. Im trying to learn from them. My case, my criminal case is on direct appeal.

Inventing Anna was inspired by real-life events, but every episode included a disclaimer that the story was true except for the parts that were made up.

I know some of the stuff like definitely did not happen, Sorokin said. But its not really up to me to sit here and go over the series piece-by-piece, because its literally a Shonda Rhimes interpretation.

While Sorokin was jailed, her fanbase grew even organizing a Free Anna Delvey art show that included some of her drawings, as well as works by other artists. Since then, she has attempted to sell pencil drawings for up to $25,000.

The podcast gives her the opportunity to take back some control over the narrative, and its something shes thought about doing for some time.

I wanted to start recording in jail, actually over the jail phone because, you know, there are some rappers who record whole albums while being incarcerated. I was like, Why not record a podcast? Sorokin said.

She was never able to do it, because it was logistically difficult to record episodes, according to the podcast company.

As far as her time behind bars, Sorokin called prison a transformative experience, saying that shes no longer the person who was arrested in 2017.

Its been five years, a bit more than five years since I got arrested. So, I just like I changed. I learned so much, she said. Dressed in a white blouse, her signature black-ribbon tie and dark slacks, her ankle bracelet is clearly visible.

She lifts her pants leg to show it off and even explains how it works.

Sometimes you see the banks all operate the biggest fraud on a huge scale, but like if you bounce, I dont know, a $500 check, then (its) fraud, Sorokin said.

This week, Sorokins guest on The Anna Delvey Show was model and rocker Julia Cumming of the New York City band, Sunflower Bean.

During a discussion about what makes a real New Yorker, Cumming says Sorokins impact in the city qualifies her.

You are the first person Ive ever hung out with under house arrest, she said. So thats a huge accomplishment.

Sorokin agreed that she didnt know anyone under house arrest either.

Cumming responded: Its like you and Lindsay Lohan, who was under house arrest in Los Angeles more than a decade ago.

Sorokin believes her notoriety makes its easy for her to bring guests on the show.

I can get pretty much anybody up here, she said with brash confidence.

But theres one guest she wont be able to get: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who just began an 11-year prison sentence for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.

Id love to speak to Elizabeth. I definitely think shes an interesting person, Sorokin said. I can relate a little bit more is because were both females and have been trying to build something.

She would also consider having U.S. Rep. George Santos on the podcast, but doesnt feel she has much in common with him. The New York Republican who fabricated an identity as a rich, Wall Street dealmaker while running for Congress, and was recently charged in a 13-count indictment that included fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds.

Im sure some of it is true, some of it its not, Sorokin said of things written about Santos.

She added: I get so many requests to give George Santos advice, jail advice or something. I kind of stayed away from that.

So, for now, the subject of the Inventing Anna series waits to find out if people tune into the podcast, available this week on all major platforms and if her campaign to reinvent herself works.