Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Rosamunde Van Brakel
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Researcher with public evidence across Policy & governance, AI research, Culture, work & education.
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assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good nature.com
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back theguardian.com
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender theguardian.com
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center 404media.co
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[2605.07723] LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org
Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion) insidehighered.com
To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’ techpolicy.press
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How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible techpolicy.press
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AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection | Stanford HAI hai.stanford.edu
Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests theguardian.com
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Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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- Meta's Project OT, which would have cut some teams by up to 60% and routed their work through AI agents, was scrapped after internal results soured.
- At Meta, code changes rose 220% year over year, but shipped features only 36%, while technical and security incidents climbed 40%.
- Forrester's 2026 'Future of Work' report found 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI-related reasons.
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Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines rendering humanity extinct, a CNN story describing the opposite scenario – one in which the US military’s reliance on chatbots almost brought the US into war with China – went mostly unnoticed. www.theguard…
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- A US special operations analyst used a chatbot to assess intel on a Chinese ship, and the AI falsely claimed it carried nuclear weapon components.
- Military planes were in the air and personnel were preparing to board before officials caught the hallucination and stood down, per CNN sources.
- Gebru and Bender argue the real AI risk is error-prone deployment in high-stakes settings today, not speculative superintelligence.
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New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media…
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US: In the latest sign that artificial intelligence is fueling higher health care costs, a group of insurers released a report Thursday claiming that hospitals’ use of A.I. was responsible for nearly $1 billion in additional expenses over two years. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/…
"hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition" arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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- Researchers audited 111 million references across 2.5 million papers on arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, and PubMed Central to find non-existent citations at scale.
- They estimate 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone, concentrated in fields with rapid AI uptake and in small or early-career author teams.
- Fake citations disproportionately credit already prominent and male scholars, and existing preprint moderation catches only a fraction, the paper says.
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Seven out of the eight groups took the conscientious objector option and decided not to use generative AI www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
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A "radical intentionalist," writes Eryk Salvaggio, treats an AI model as a 'mind' to be interpreted rather than a product that was designed. It is "a strange and dangerous relationship for designers to have with a product they are literally designing," he writes — and worse as…
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- METR's Hugging Face post-mortem used 'believed' 21 times to describe the agents; add 'think' and 'thought' and mentions top 75.
- Eryk Salvaggio argues a 'radical intentionalist stance' treats language models as autonomous believers, sidelining the design choices engineers actually made.
- He calls the Sanders-Casar bill 'disappointing' for centering extinction fears and urges regulation grounded in architecture, not 'superintelligence.'
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“The emperor is a fan of Flock,” a man dressed as Darth Vader told a San Diego City Council meeting last month.... “We must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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«As a form of structural invisibility, AI is violent, not just biased.» Important new essay by @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...
‘Our new paper offers a rare look inside the “black box” of algorithmic hiring, showing that these tools increase racial bias and shut the same people out of jobs everywhere they apply’ hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiri...
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- A Stanford HAI study of 4 million applications found 26% of Black applicants faced AI-screened positions that discriminated against their racial group.
- Roughly 40,000 more applications would have advanced if the AI tool had recommended candidates at equal rates across racial groups.
- Ten percent of applicants who submitted four applications screened by the same vendor were rejected from all of them, exceeding independent-probability expectations.
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Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Tomorrow I will teach my 2nd lecture of the year for my course Legal, Ethical & Social Issues of AI! For the evaluation, apart from the exam, students will need to write a short paper describing an AI imaginary that takes into account the legal, ethical and social issues we discussed in the course.
Today @anafernandezi.bsky.social gave a wonderful guest lecture on AI ethics in my LESAI course! She also did an exercise with the students in which they had to imagine they were part of an external ethics board, the AI office, big tech ethics board or NGO.
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