A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher nysfocus.com
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Not sure how many people on this app followed the X discourse about a "tech forward" left. But this is the best thing ever written on this topic imo and outlines not just why my comments were stupid but also why this notion is a flawed one more broadly. Very good read
The Future Is Not Tech-Forward thetechbubble.info
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A Super PAC network supported by a $25 million donation from OpenAI President Greg Brockman and $50 million from a16z, just admitted to paying for “parody meme accounts” mocking people with Down syndrome, calling for violence against tech leaders, among a bunch of other insane…
A Pro-AI Super PAC’s Secret Meme Sockpuppets usermag.co
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“Everyone is polyamorous, everyone attends the same events, everyone lives in group homes together, everyone venerates the same few ppl, everyone is very worried about AI doom, and a lot of ppl are on psychedelic drugs. They’re all contrarian together. Lots and lots of them wo…
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California verysane.ai
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Excellent piece by @joeonhere.bsky.social on how the Trump admin is about to destroy the internet in order to give AI companies everything they want
Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet futurism.com
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"Until the deeper cultural problems are addressed, the data center backlash will only recreate itself in other forms. If people are this angry at a building sitting and paying taxes on unused land, something deep has gone very wrong."
No Data Centers In My Backyard jasmi.news
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Anyone promoting AI doomsday cult slop should read this in full.
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California verysane.ai
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If you missed our AI and journalism panel with @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, and Alexandra Marvar, you can now listen to it as a podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...
Journalism and AI 101 ft. Taylor Lorenz, Brian Merchant, and Alexandra Marvar podcasts.apple.com
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Meta used AI to target people with disabilities or who took medical leave for mass layoffs. www.usnews.com/news/top-new...
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"If A.I. is the new interface for creating code, and code is a form of communication and expression, then it’s incumbent to ensure only the most critical restrictions are applied to these models."
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