Nick Diakopoulos

This from Anthropic is a real piece of work: www.anthropic.com/institute/re...

When AI builds itself anthropic.com

New AI EO dropped www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security whitehouse.gov

“signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT was released” www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? pewresearch.org

“A.I. is a genuinely powerful technology that still needs people, and putting it to use is slow, human work. The sooner we are honest about that …, the sooner we can stop performing A.I. and start building something with it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

nytimes.com

Interesting overview of AI reasoning: www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org

I’m glad Anthropic models will be released, but de facto executive control of AI systems has got to be the worst possible version of AI governance. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/t...

nytimes.com

I'm bummed to miss the FAccT Conference later this week in Montreal. If you're there please check out our work on simulating AI policy interventions which Julia Barnett will present (pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/2605.27395). Another great collaboration with Kimon Kieslich and…

Informing AI Policy Assessment using Large-Scale Simulation of Interventions arxiv.org

Nice write up of some of the AI-oriented changes to the SPJ code of ethics by @andrewdeck.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/the-...

niemanlab.org

Today we're launching the Northwestern Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge. Top prize is $5000 and an invitation to present the work at the Computation + Journalism Symposium this fall. Details here: www.gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu

The Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge | gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu

Today I updated my post on building awareness through public AI registers to include some new research comparing the types of information typically included: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/building-a...

Building Awareness through Public AI Registers ai-accountability-review.com

Has anyone written about how all of the major tech companies have profoundly undifferentiated gen ai products? They all do more or less exactly the same things now.

🎺 Announcing the Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge Winners! A few months ago we challenged journalists and computing/info/data scientists to develop agent skills for Claude that could be used to advance investigative journalism.

A recent analysis of 188 autonomous AI incidents found that 35% involved code being destroyed or deleted. So as we delegate more to AI agents it's worth asking: How do we ensure people stay accountable for their agents?

We were warned that AI would turn everything into paperclips. But the paperclips turned out to be data centers.

For a company building superintelligence Anthropic's customer service agent is absolute garbage.

Whatever happened to AI redteaming? This was all the rage for a hot minute and now we don’t hear about it at all.

We're now at the stage of the Anthropic settlement where we see just how grabby the publishers of our books are. Wow! Taylor and Francis things they get 50% of the settlement money; Pearson 79% (how did they get to that number?).