Oh no, I missed this, the book was about… The— Sir, arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
Who's Who of AI
Erin Kissane
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
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AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it. - Ars Technica arstechnica.com
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This is so great. Cannot think of a better-positioned person to get into the gruesome realities of AI regulation, natsec controls, and the *extremely wild* public conversation about what the administration is doing @himself.bsky.social. www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-the-a...
And there's some public work in the cites here arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10776 including www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Recent commentary
Anyway I think the LLMs are giving people acedia, for real
Thinking about a decade of evolution in gambling-inflected tech crazes—NFTs, blockchain, metaverse, prediction markets the nested doll of variously credible AI claims—got me thinking about millenarians and apocalypse cults and the rhetoric of the last chance, which is now text rather than subtext.
We really do need to help our children build necessary AI literacies: Salt circles, protective incantations. An awareness that contracts with spirits are always trying to destroy you. Banishing. More banishing.
I don't think I've ever used this construction in my life, but: "People who aren't familiar with AI output and didn't spot an AI-generated story are just lazy; *I* would have spotted it purely through my superior artistic virtue" is cope. Get you a skeptical robot weirdo to show you the ropes.
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