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Dr J. Rosenbaum

55 trust @jrosenbaum.com.au · 2,291 followers
Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺 links page at minxdragon.com
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@jazzmyth.bsky.social

Anthropomorphizing AI is one of the most direct ways media makers shape perceptions of technology. There are suggested swaps in here that would work for general audiences too, not just tech readers. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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  • The guide covers six language categories: cognition, emotion, communication, agency, human-role analogies, and biological metaphors.
  • Proposed substitutions include 'probabilistic automation' for 'artificial intelligence' and 'conversation simulator' for 'chatbot.'
  • Rephrasing 'ChatGPT assisted students' as 'the students used ChatGPT' is given as an example of restoring human accountability.
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@techcrunch.com

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • DuckDuckGo US installs peaked 30.5% WoW on May 25, with iOS hitting 69.9%, directly following Google I/O 2026.
  • A 2026 DuckDuckGo poll found 93% of over 110,000 respondents actively rejecting AI search features outright.
  • Visits to DuckDuckGo's dedicated AI-free search version rose 27.7% WoW peak during the same post-I/O window.
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@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Meta is currently testing "super sensing" AI glasses that will continuously record surrounding audio while snapping pictures every few seconds. The new hardware also gets rid of the LED light that notifies bystanders when the glasses are recording. www.ft.com/content/ac28...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social

The real AI hazard isn't just misalignment, argue Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene. It's Babel: teaching ourselves to treat "speech as output, judgment as computation and persons as data." The idol diminishes us before it ever comes alive.

The Pope Found Babel in AI. Here's What Rabbis Saw | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
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  • Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, frames AI as a choice between building another Tower of Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem's walls alongside Nehemiah.
  • The authors argue two governments, a half-dozen companies and a handful of individuals now hold most of the compute, capital and talent shaping AI.
  • The rabbinic reading warns against valuing bricks over people, enforced uniformity, and systems too opaque for their own builders to communicate about.
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@restofworld.org

The U.S. and China control 90% of global compute, forcing other nations to trade data and energy for AI access https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-divide-america-china-world/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1781825460

The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance restofworld.org
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  • The US and China together control 90% of global computing power and attract 70 to 80% of global AI investment, a Rest of World panel said.
  • Carnegie's Sam Winter-Levy framed middle powers' options as pooling into coalitions, building sovereign models, or aligning with a superpower for access guarantees.
  • Access Now's Peter Micek said RightsCon 2026 was cancelled after Chinese pressure on Zambia over expected Taiwanese participants and LGBTQ content.
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Ugh. I saw a really lazy AI slop image with this statement so I made a quick typography one instead and then the app scrolled so I lost the original post. Anyway fuck Nazis and fuck billionaires and trillionaires. Also fuck AI slop.

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