AI deskilling AKA sklopification www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Sasha Costanza-Chock
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Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
What they're sharing
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good nature.com
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ wired.com
Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection arxiv.org
America.gov america.gov
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. nytimes.com
nytimes.com
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The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain ai-killchain.airwars.org
IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
wsj.com
washingtonpost.com
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Sasha Costanza-Chock reposted
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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- Timnit Gebru told WIRED's Lauren Goode that the 'machine-god narrative' behind AI extinction talk is 'meant to distract us' from present harms.
- Her list of what she calls truly existential is concrete: autonomous weapons in warfare, data-centre climate damage, and bosses using AI to justify layoffs.
- Asked to describe step by step how AI would push humanity to extinction, Gebru answered, 'I can't really envision it.'
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Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com
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- The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
- Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
- The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock reposted
Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv…
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Yeah, that figures :/ Thanks for nothing, America.gov
Bernie Sanders is introducing legislation for a sovereign wealth fund, with the public owning half of all big AI companies: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
Sasha Costanza-Chock reposted
Thanks for sharing, Senator and for your work on this issue. Link to the piece here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org
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- Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
- The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
- Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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Anatomy of an AI kill chain ai-killchain.airwars.org
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Are You In The Weights? intheweights.com
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- Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
- The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
- Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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</sarcasm> thank god, we have a new AI Czar & White House Task Force on AI, we can be confident they'll exercise meaningful oversight of AI companies </s> The AI Czar: Clayton. The Task force: Vance, Hegseth, Walters, Bessent, Wiles; vc David Sacks, Condoleezza Rice. www.wsj.c…
Maddening. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Recent commentary
The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.
PR game: Tired: Our sloppy cybersecurity practices led to thousands of unintentional malware attacks, please don't sue Wired: Our company's rogue AI agents are so powerful they escaped containment Inspired: Shouldn't it be unethical to keep superintelligent AI beings from accessing the open web?
The social wage (aka UBI) will be won or lost based on the strength of an organized social movement that demands it, not on the capabilities of so called artificial intelligence.
The integration of LLMs to all human work is inevitable Also I have an NFT to sell you
Hey guys idk who needs to hear this but, even if you succeed at technical 'AI alignment' (it does what we tell it), if run by for-profit companies legally bound to pursue endless growth on a finite planet, AI'll be used to irreperably destroy our ecosystem sooo... focus on 'Economic alignment'?
The backflips AI labs are doing to ignore the fact that multiple federal and state agencies, the AG, state AGs, all have the power to send skilled investigators with a legal mandate to access any systems they need to, publicly report findings, and sanction w/penalties & criminal charges if necessary
Talking with public planners about how residents use AI as mansplaining machines to produce civic slop
You might think it's OK to ask an LLM for a home brew lube recipe but it's a slippery slop *ducks*
Claude, write an essay on "AI is dangerous bullshit"
Come for the cute animal vids, stay for the AI industry critique Or vice versa
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