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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
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When AI builds itself anthropic.com
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. nytimes.com
Opinion | Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop nytimes.com
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They Are Top Spenders in the Midterms. And They Hate Each Other. nytimes.com
Waiting for AGI | AI & SOCIETY | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing theatlantic.com
Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective nytimes.com
Still Waiting for AI to Trickle Down | The Daily Spark apollo.com
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I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human | Wendy Liu theguardian.com
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Irony murdered: A book about truth and AI apparently includes quotes made up by AI. The author says he'll investigate. Whom? Himself? (Disclosure: I deflected requests to blurb it.) Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
Cal Newport -- @author-calnewport.bsky.social -- is so right. Gift link. Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
Bullshit. Tech companies are searching for signs that chatbots are conscious www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Anthropic, Google, and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers over the past year to study whether AI models have forms of emotion.
- Anthropic hired Kyle Fish in September 2024 as its first dedicated AI welfare researcher and stood up a Model Welfare team.
- Neuroscientists and brain experts remain broadly skeptical that today's AI models are, or could soon be, conscious.
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It's Godzilla v Mothra as AI billionaires throw their weight around in our democracy. Gift link. ‘This Is a War’: How Powerful A.I. Super PACs Are Dueling Over the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...
Lovely essay equates Waiting for Godot with AGI. "The persistence of waiting, therefore, reflects a distribution of roles whose coherence depends on anticipation rather than on settled judgment" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
JFC, Rosenbaum refuses to take responsibility and he's still promoting the book on his socials without coming clean. His book is supposed to be about truth. AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The problem, I've been shouting, is not the technology but humans: It is impossible to predict--thus forbid--every malign use to which a general machine can be subjected. Guardrails are fools' comfort. Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/…
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You'll all be shocked to learn that reorienting the whole economy around cramming AI into everything has not produced any economic benefit outside of the AI companies. www.apollo.com/wealth/the-d...
I love the Guardian. Best we have. Journalism's last hope. But its digital puritanism (after early years of digital love) drives me nuts. They tell us to give up phones and the net and now AI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Take that, Elon. Jury Rejects Musk’s Claims Against OpenAI wsj.com/tech/ai/jury...
Interesting: The WaPo editorial board (read: Bezos) editorialized in favor of open-source AI (thwarting regulation at the behest of the AI companies). Is the future of AI open? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Mastodon's AI-aided addition of alt-text is wonderful (everyone should have it). Bonus: How it reads The Times' gothic logo.
The anonymous slander campaign against NJ7 candidate Rebecca Bennett gets more disgusting by the day. This just arrived in our mail. No, this doesn't require AI to make a photographic lie. It requires only the dark soul of a chickenshit liar.
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