Salomé Viljoen

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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.

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Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams

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If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research and validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle... New editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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@tkovach.bsky.social

Well this is startling. Researchers looked at how AI may raise productivity in the energy sector. Across the board, productivity increases for fossil fuels cause a net increase in GHGs. The only way AI causes net GHGs to fall is if renewables productivity goes up 4-5x more tha…

AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action nature.com
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

In the future, people’s fate will be dictated by which side of the camera they are on.

I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots wired.com
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  • Wired's Reece Rogers spent a week with an iPhone strapped to his forehead, filming household chores as training data for humanoid robots.
  • The footage went to "egocentric data" collectors, a corner of the AI gig economy that Rogers said pays contributors in "pennies."
  • In an NPR interview about the piece, Rogers said he realised he was helping train robots that could one day replace house cleaners and other everyday workers.
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"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweene…

AI Economics for Dummies mcsweeneys.net View on Bluesky →

Imagine if we were mobilizing our entire economic force for the actual technological miracle of our time, clean tech, instead of AI that's gonna make 5 of the world's worst dudes trillionaires: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

Opinion | A.I. Is Strangling Our Economy - The New York Times nytimes.com
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  • In a NYT opinion piece, Jennifer M. Harris argues the AI buildout has begun to crowd out the rest of the U.S. economy.
  • She calls it one of the largest peacetime mobilizations of capital in modern American history, on track to top $1 trillion annually next year.
  • Her resource-competition argument: capital, power and political attention are being diverted from housing, manufacturing and grid upgrades.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com

“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails…

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social

Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet.…

Too Much Is Happening Too Fast theatlantic.com View on Bluesky →
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@claeshs.bsky.social

Another significant development: a German regulator now says Google's AI Overviews fall under media law. "AI search engines and chatbots are content providers, and we will consistently apply German media law to them from now on" - ZAK's Thorsten Schmiege

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