Dan McQuillan

AI maths meets mafia: "I said if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I'm an academic, & asked why he thought going public would ruin my career" cims.nyu.edu/~tristan…

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"Anthropic leaders to control AI lab via 'Founder LLC' to promote the common good" www.reuters.com/legal/transa.... If only Elinor Ostrom was still around to explain to these AI doomer numpties that 'common good' is something we decide _in common_, not via a cabal.

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More info: www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts theregister.com

Very late notice, but I'll be doing an informal talk and discussion for SPINE (Speculative Inquiry into Ethics) tomorrow on 'AI, Decomputing and its Discontents'. Open registration events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc27d...

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Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Critical AI Network Virtual Assembly - Live Programme - Google Drive docs.google.com

Shake in your shoes, doomer oligarchs! "AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms" (quotes Emily Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social , @wolven.blacksky.app and myself). www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

AI skeptics dubious of proposed slowdown sfexaminer.com

Should we offer a free ticket to the CEO of Nscale? They seem to be having some difficulties www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (so sad 😭)

Microsoft pulls out of Nscale's Essex AI data centre bbc.co.uk

“AI and its adoption must work in the interests of the British people”🤦 “control and sovereignty matter” 🤡 “infrastructure must serve a national purpose and deliver for communities” ☠️ [For actual sense about data centres, come to our panel on Friday luma.com/ekh7k48b ]

Stop Dirty Data Centres - Panel & Assembly · Luma luma.com

Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

PROGRAMME: “How do we break something that is already broken?” Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, CPCT (27-29 May, 2026; online) cpct.uk

This episode of @melhogan.bsky.social's The Data Fix w/ @eryk.bsky.social is the most grounded discussion of so-called 'rogue AI' I've come across podcastaddict.com/the-data-fix... The algos aren't 'planning' or 'conspiring' but blindly following imitative but meaningless stre…

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This looks like a well-researched and situated counter to Masley's 'do your own Qanon research' - 'The AI Data Center Water Management Challenge: A Georgia Case Study' tapsrundry.com/georgia-wate... Blunter version from the author in this pod youtube.com/watch?v=oNSQ...

Georgia Data Center Water Study - AllAI DataedX — When Will the Taps Run Dry? tapsrundry.com

This looks like a well-researched and situated counter to Masley's 'do your own Qanon research' - 'The AI Data Center Water Management Challenge: A Georgia Case Study' tapsrundry.com/georgia-wate... Blunter version from the author in this pod youtube.com/watch?v=oNSQ...

TWiGS: The AI Water Management Challenge with Masheika Allgood youtube.com

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

Where is the university ethics committee that has stepped up to the plate and said "There's no ethical way to use Generative AI"?

Fisher/Jameson said "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". And yet, that act of imagining alternatives is urgent; if AI tells us nothing else, it tells us that capitalism is actively imagining the end of us.

One way or other, AI will implode leaving a financial black hole and 'they' (companies, investors, govts) will try to get us to pay the price, like 2008. Last time we were caught out; the more AI resistance there is this time, the more we'll be ready to say "screw you, no way".

It's bizarre that 'transparency' remains part of Responsible AI narratives. This is the most mask-off moment in decades; the technopolitical hegemony is very transparent about the fact that we & the rest of the biosphere are disposable accessories to their desire for domination.

Hyperscalers: "We're investing more than $1 trillion in AI capital investment". Smug AI adopter: "I'm completely in charge, I just use it for brainstorming ideas". AI isn't a consumer toy, it's a push for systemic transformation that amps up alienation and climate harm.☣️

There seems to be a confusion in some circles between small-models-for-languages such as Te Hiku Media's - which actually exist and need our solidarity - and 'small language models' (LLMs,chatbots) - which don't exist outside wishful thinking about community-powered AI.

AI makes being average at [faking] any skill available to everyone [until inference prices increase]. If you take time to be good at what you do [someone will train agentic AI to imitate you] & you won't have to worry about being replaced [until your boss chooses agentic AI].

Breaking: AI companies announce that hyperscale datacentres will switch to a behind-the-meter power supply based on burning books. As the same books have already been sliced & scanned for model training, the companies describe this a sustainable closed loop. 📚🔥☠️

Advocating for "AI sovereignty" is another way to call for a war economy.