Hallucinated references seem to be way more common in social science papers than others - but why? My latest for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Chris Stokel-Walker
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Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
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Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site nature.com
Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot wired.com
Can the United Nations Bring the World Together on AI? techpolicy.press
Too dangerous to release: is Mythos the start of the restricted-AI era? nature.com
The $28 Million Mistake That Inspired Estonia's AI “Fuckup Finder” wired.com
OpenAI says employees moving beyond chat to agents theregister.com
nytimes.com
fastcompany.com
Companies are getting AI chatbots to smear their competitors sherwood.news
Ditching the cloud for local AI — how I use two mini PCs to process millions of tokens a day and save money on costly API fees tomshardware.com
fastcompany.com
Inside optical and the battle for scale – how the AI industry is racing to integrate photonic interconnects tomshardware.com
Articles & links
Robot dogs, helicopters and humanoids sprinting up and down the aisles - the UN AI for Good Summit is... a lot. But what will it achieve? My latest for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/robot-...
I've spent the last four days running around an airless expo hall in Geneva trying to figure out what the UN thinks it can do to tame AI. Here's what I've learned for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/can-the-unit...
Did Mythos usher in a new era of how to release AI models that are too dangerous to be widely used? My latest for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Estonia lost out on $28m of tax revenues due to a poorly written law AI systems were able to identify in an instant. It sparked the country to rethink how it uses AI - putting it front and centre. My latest for @wired.com, supported by a @tarbellcenter.bsky.social grant www.wi…
If you are one of the 2.1% of OpenAI employees not using Codex, I want to speak to you www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
Officially too many IPOs www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/t...
AI companies say we're going to be shopping though their systems in the near future - but a new study suggests you can waylay recommendations with a single webpage. My latest for @fastcompany.com on the weird future ahead www.fastcompany.com/91562049/one...
The cut-throat competition to get placements in AI chatbot responses is resulting in some companies starting to do down their competitors on blog posts hosted on their own websites. My latest for @sherwood.news sherwood.news/tech/compani...
I increasingly believe the future of AI is going to be locally-hosted models running on our own devices, not subject to export bans or the whims of companies. My latest for @tomshardware.com on my own setup www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
I spoke to CrowdStrike's president for @fastcompany.com about his fears of AI-enabled exploitation of zero days www.fastcompany.com/91574302/how...
How important could photonics be to the future of data centres? Here's my latest for @tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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God, AI is remarkable. I've got an uncomfortably warm office at my university that they refuse to do anything about. Bought a £10 smart thermometer which has an associated app but I want to access it remotely. Uses Bluetooth. Have vibe coded a remote access dashboard
Hard to know what to think about today. On the one hand, scrapping DSIT is moronic. Giving the department its own fiefdom attracted great thinkers from industry. Not sure they'd do so now. On the other, an AI minister in cabinet is good
Trump's export control on Fable/Mythos is a) the best case for AI sovereignty that doesn't rely on a handful of US models you can make and b) another example of Anthropic's "ooh scary model" overhype blowing back in their face
You can smell AI-generated slide decks a mile off (and I don't like it)
On the morning of 30 July, I'm hosting a hack day near King's Cross for journalists and PRs. Three hours later, they'll leave with software they directed AI to build. No coding experience needed. £199. In person, with feedback while you build. www.stokel-walker.com/buildwithai
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