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Accelerating AI field signal Signal 16h ago
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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New Policy & governance Analysis 1h ago
encryption going dark lawful intercept

Everything is about to “go dark”

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““The destruction of the low-hanging vulnerability fruit will make law enforcement (and intelligence) agencies’ need much more acute. The demand for constructed, intentional backdoors will re-start in earnest” blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Matthew Green: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wish folks could get past trotting comments that just confirm their priors because the actual answers to this are going to turn out to be about culture and the technosocial side of things and laz…
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New Safety & security Analysis 2h ago
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UN AI panel corporate misbehavior critique

The UN's AI Panel Sees Misalignment. We See Corporate (Mis)Behavior.

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as more of an alignment problem rather than an oversigh…”

New AI field signal Development 1h ago
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Kenya refugees AI data labor

‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay

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“"Tech companies have built some of their most powerful tools on datasets handled by precarious workers, including refugees, in low-income countries." www.theguardian.com/technology/n...”

“New commentary! Speaking to @theguardian.com, @geoplace.bsky.social @towardsfairwork.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk discusses how AI is changing digital work for refugees in Kenya, with discretionary ‘rewards’ replacing guaranteed wages. Read the full article: w…”

Accelerating AI field signal Signal 9h ago
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Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Accelerating AI field signal Signal 9h ago
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Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS)

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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New AI field signal Development 5h ago
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Meta glasses school harassment

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“If you build a tool that makes it easy to spy on and harass people, that's exactly what people will use it for. This is all by design. futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“Today in unsurprising but depressing news: "every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls." futurism.com/artificial-i...”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Maggie Harrison Dupré: NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
Maggie Harrison Dupré: We found dozens of videos shared by teens using smart glasses to record content at middle and high schools. Some of these videos are "Come With Me" or "Day in My Life" -style influencer content. Ki…
Hypervisible : NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
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New AI field signal Development 12h ago
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humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

10 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...”

“Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or no…”

New AI field signal Analysis 4h ago
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Silicon Leviathan AI blowup essay

The Siren Call of Silicon Leviathan: Reflections on blowup and Aufklärungsdämmerung

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“absolute banger arxiv.org/abs/2609.28591”

“This is a great essay by A. Gamburd. Funnily I had been thinking about Schmitt (and in fact, specifically The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes) and Panofsky in these very contexts; they had become part of my mental vocabulary on how I thought …”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Shubhendu Trivedi: reversing it entails, and second is the function of said crack. Schmitt says, basically, this crack is how Leviathan dies -- close it. The essay says the crack is where exception is controlled. Let…
Shubhendu Trivedi: But my thinking had been more centered on decoding the nature of the exception. Gamburd applies these ideas differently. There are really two creative formulations in the essay. One is connecting t…
Shubhendu Trivedi: defeat the sovereign. Schmitt thinks of this crack as the fatal liberal weakness of Hobbesian absolutism, and then uses it to develop more integralist views, and more famous ones on exception and p…
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New AI business Resource 3h ago
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Pluralistic Doctorow blog resource

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0: pluralistic.net/feed/”

New AI business Signal 1h ago

Did ai or human write paper new detector decides examining its ideas

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“IdeaLens spots AI-generated scientific papers by analyzing the structure and flow of ideas rather than surface wording. When testing lightly polished human drafts, traditional text detector Pangram flagged 92% as AI, whereas IdeaLens flagged only 7%.”

New AI field signal Analysis 10h ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

4 experts discussed this · 46 posts
Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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New AI field signal Signal 1h ago

Private, offline and yours: how to search the literature with local AI systems

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“I have a feeling that more researchers will start looking at local models and solutions after the whole Navier–Stokes issue with OpenAI. I don't think that academic environments of the models will be enough to overcome the worry about getting scooped by an …”

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

4 experts · 32 publicaciones · 10h ago
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Dwayne Monroe: It is very easy: GPUs, storage arrays, cooling and power systems are built things. How tiresome western idealism, which flees from a materialist understanding and reality itself, is.
Hagen Blix: The vampire of constant capital demands its due, Dwayne. What's more "alive" than sucking living labor, ask the undead
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5 experts · 12 publicaciones · 14h ago
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Policy & governance · 1
austin: I disagree w/anil on this point specifically because I do not believe AI can write non-copyleft code just as matter of legal principle. I don’t know how much it practically _matters_ but I think it…
austin: I also think that the upshot of this is that communities become more important than before, although they start to look very different. Maybe the principle of OSS starts to look more like standards…
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