Ali Alkhatib

this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the puzzle until they mak…

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds 404media.co

"When we hear AI, we shouldn’t fall for the AI peddlers’ narratives of productivity explosions and mass unemployment. We should think of Taylorism, of the myriad ways in which capital centralizes knowledge, measures people, and carves up work in order to maximize its control a…

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI jacobin.com

> Even if the MS Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously we're so close to talking about how thoroughly captured by big tech H…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com

this piece arguing against nationalizing AI is really good. not surprised! @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg's book was a hit with the reading group when we read it a few months ago

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press commonnotions.org

whenever someone tells me what a chatbot said i feel myself die a little bit on a number of levels all at once

last week we saw policies regarding AI from arxiv & from berkeley law school - both substantially limiting reckless use of AI (with different goals, methods, etc). i'm curious if anyone here is aware of other recent-ish new policies on AI use in workplaces or related settings. (let's say in 2026)

the air quality is shit but don't forget today is AI appreciation day lmao

apartment-searching in 2026 is bad. i've become grateful for clumsy photoshop jobs that layer generic png assets over crappy jpegs. better than ai-generated garbage that violates euclidean geometry, to say nothing of strains credulity that this place would exist in the city in question.

man, i'm kinda fascinated by the generative ai disclosure sections in these FAccT papers.

i feel like if i was an admin at a university trying to advance the use of AI, i would try really really hard to make sure that all of my work was unassailable, even if it meant hiring an extraordinary team of editors & fact checkers that would be impossible for other university employees to employ.

super impressed with @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social's work on supporting bottom-up resistance to harmful AI systems. she just presented her dissertation work and is doing Q&A now

i just saw the openAI merch store photos and i think it's really funny to wear a shirt that says "research" made by a tech company whose most famous product is basically best-known for validating every stray thought you type into the text box lol

i'm going to remember random thoughts from FAccT over the course of the next few days during a panel i was on, someone asked about the feeling that AI is kind of everywhere and like... what do we do about it if we're talking about resistance, or refusal, or even destruction.

sometimes i get a little cluster of signups for the ai skeptics reading group and i'm not sure what to do with that information.