Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
16h ago
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
Research & technical analysis
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“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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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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encryption going dark lawful intercept
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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...”
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“I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”
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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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UN AI panel corporate misbehavior critique
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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
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Development
1h ago
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Kenya refugees AI data labor
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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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4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Organizing model copies into teams feels promising for self-improvement. Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 Work by Hyunin Lee, Jinglue Xu, Jeffrey Seely, Yujin Tang, and UC Berkeley collaborators (Somayeh Sojoudi, Matei Zaharia, Dong…”
Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
9h ago
⚡ 5 h early
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Organizing model copies into teams feels promising for self-improvement. Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 Work by Hyunin Lee, Jinglue Xu, Jeffrey Seely, Yujin Tang, and UC Berkeley collaborators (Somayeh Sojoudi, Matei Zaharia, Dong…”
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Development
5h ago
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Meta glasses school harassment
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...”
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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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12h ago
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humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts
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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
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4h ago
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Silicon Leviathan AI blowup essay
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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 …”
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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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3h ago
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“October 15 is the deadline to apply for a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science, including the "Understanding AI" theme year. www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...”
New
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Signal
3h ago
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“October 15 is the deadline to apply for a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science, including the "Understanding AI" theme year. www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...”
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5h ago
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“AI tools are being used all across the world to develop code - but sometimes that code is shonky. My latest for @leaddev.com leaddev.com/ai/ai-code-c...”
Pluralistic Doctorow blog resource
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“You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0: pluralistic.net/feed/”
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1h ago
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“Only 12.2% of clinical prediction model papers citing TRIPOD actually share code. Worse, when repositories are available, only 22% pin down software package versions and tests appear in just 4%.”
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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
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10h ago
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critical AI essay olivia science
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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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
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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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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2h ago
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“Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.”
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1h ago
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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 …”