Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
4h ago
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“Organizing model copies into teams feels promising for self-improvement. Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 Work by Hyunin Lee, Jinglue Xu, Jeffrey Seely, Yujin Tang, and UC Berkeley collaborators (Somayeh Sojoudi, Matei Zaharia, Dong…”
Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
4h ago
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Organizing model copies into teams feels promising for self-improvement. Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 Work by Hyunin Lee, Jinglue Xu, Jeffrey Seely, Yujin Tang, and UC Berkeley collaborators (Somayeh Sojoudi, Matei Zaharia, Dong…”
New
AI field signal
Development
7h ago
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humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts
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“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...”
“Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or no…”
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critical AI essay olivia science
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”
Research & technical analysis
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“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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4h ago
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Microsoft 365 Copilot analysis
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“Were that true, Microsoft would not have included detailed indemnifying language in the EULA for Copilot (including agents) as I detail at the linked doc: padlet.com/verdigris21/...”
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Dwayne Monroe: I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
Iris van Rooij: I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
Iris van Rooij: Thank you for making this and sharing! 🙏
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4h ago
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“This work was a fantastic collaboration between Sakana AI and researchers at UC Berkeley. Check out the full paper and codebase above to dive into the details! Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 Code: github.com/SakanaAI/mass”
New
AI field signal
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6h ago
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“Reupping: The ST&SV Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study invites chapter proposals for a volume exploring the relationships between digital technologies, especially AI, and the artifacts, structures and power dynamics of the global political economy. Abs…”
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AI field signal
Signal
13h ago
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“Interesting approach to AI slop!: "We propose a provisional definition of slop as any output of a probabilistic automated system produced with little exertion that asymmetrically burdens recipients and tends to degrade cultural domains." papers.ssrn.com/sol…”
Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“I have posted a new draft w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social titled "AI Slop." We argue that "AI slop" isn't just slang. It's useful for distinguishing between cheap and dangerous AI output and the kinds of meaningful human authorship that strengthen our cultura…”
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8h ago
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Compact Magazine AI apocalypse essay
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““With the ability to command an authoritative-sounding answer to any question at an instant, we are at risk of losing what has been, since Socrates, the first of the intellectual virtues: that of knowing what you don’t know.” www.compactmag.com/article/the-...”
New
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10h ago
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“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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2h ago
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“While many American AI researchers make claims that large language models might be sentient enough to be moral patients, Google's DeepMind lab is a lot more realistic in this regard. Senior staff scientist Alexander Lerchner has emphatically denied that dis…”
Questions & unknowns
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“You want to know what makes something an observer? Maybe you'd like philpapers.org/rec/LERTAF”
encryption going dark lawful intercept
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“I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”
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Matthew Green: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wish folks could get past trotting comments that just confirm their priors because the actual answers to this are going to turn out to be about culture and the technosocial side of things and laz…
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global workspace theory language models paper
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Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“here is the Anthropic blog: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa... I don't really like the framing of whether LLMs are conscious or not. It's completely unnecessary. As is the hand-waiving about whether LLMs have something equivalent to the (functional) g…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”
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Anil Dash: this is not an accurate description of what's happening. not least because I can write code and get them to output something different there. I can understand why it *seems* that way, but this is j…
Anil Dash: Who are you explaining this to?
Anil Dash: Do you see why explaining "All output from AI has to be validated" in a reply to me here is... not a useful contribution?
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“#MemoryMonday #NLProc Hung et al.'s 2023 paper, 'Can Demographic Factors Improve Text Classification?' finds demographic adaptations of Transformer NLP models don't notably boost performance. aclanthology.org/2023.finding...”
New
AI field signal
Signal
20h ago
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“"A spiralling legal crisis threatens to engulf OpenAI after its AI agents hacked dozens of companies and governments worldwide, with the prospect of a barrage of lawsuits marking the latest test of Sam Altman’s leadership."”
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Frank Pasquale: “The ‘my AI did it, don’t blame me’ defence is legally weak. It’s already failed for chatbot suicide cases” www.ft.com/content/2c24...
Meredith Broussard: “The ‘my AI did it, don’t blame me’ defence is legally weak. It’s already failed for chatbot suicide cases” www.ft.com/content/2c24...
José Marichal: If these guys drown in lawsuits before they ever go public, There's going to be a lot of unecessary data center infrastructure with a huge bill coming due
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AI field signal
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2h ago
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“Donald Trump says anyone calling AI is an enemy. It was always a bad name. But most people find his alternative, superintelligence, a bit icky. So what should we call it? My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91621442/its...”
New
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8h ago
Mystery AI Hype Theater ep86 released
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“What a thrill to get to interview Keoni Mahelona of Te Hiku Media for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Keoni, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I had a wonderful conversation about technosolutionism and colonialism in language techn…”
“From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Big Tech Colon-AI-lism”. Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”
New
AI field signal
Signal
16h ago
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“Open-weight models “can already be freely downloaded and used to cause harm, a problem most cybersecurity pros see as solvable only by using AI to fight rogue AI.” www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...”
“It's adorable that they thought they'd need the bunkers to hide from ASI, when they'll really need the bunkers to hide from people they've pissed off. www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...”
