AI* engine optimization is as gross and corrosive as it sounds. www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
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Jeffrey Vagle
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It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat insidehighered.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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How to talk about buttondown.com
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We Must Act Now wemustactnow.ai
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Articles & links
We need to have a long talk about the function and purpose of education. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...
Fully autonomous weapons with no human in the loop is torment nexus level stupidity and a path that leads nowhere good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
Cognitive surrender to AI* takes many forms, all of them with negative consequences. www.404media.co/software-dev...
"Disinformation did not begin with AI, yet today it finds a powerful amplifier in AI...Only the shared pursuit of the veracity of facts, perceived as a common good, can provide a solid foundation for just communication." -- Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
- The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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AI* is turning higher education into a prisoner's dilemma exercise. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Amen. No, artificial intelligence is not conscious. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
It's not a failure of leadership or strategic thinking--it's a test of our service members' "grit" and "resilience." www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/a...
Jeffrey Vagle reposted
Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.
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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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Protecting Privacy in an AI Era Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-a…
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- Daniel Solove argues in the WSJ that consumer-control privacy laws are failing because digital technologies have become too complicated for individuals to manage.
- His fix shifts responsibility to companies whenever they create an unreasonable risk of harm through uses of data or through AI algorithms.
- Proposed measures include rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent design, liability for harmful algorithms, and multi-stakeholder review.
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hey a living, breathing example i can use for the proposition that, in fact, not all shareholders want wealth maximization: "considerable financial portfolio—which...includes some 200 shares in Meta.... [I]f she met Mark Zuckerberg, she would 'kick him in both shins.'" www.wsj…
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Ell oh ell. 200 economists have signed a joint statement on AI disruption, titled “we must act now.” The “action” they recommend is “hey we should, like, work to understand what might happen if AI really takes off?” This isn’t a call to arms. It’s a research funding request. w…
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Putting together syllabus and materials for this fall's AI Law & Policy course, and the first two classes will be introducing the (very) basic math behind ML models, and I'm trying to find a way to get law students not to immediately tune out when the see things like x, y, and \Sigma.
My annoyance turns to irritation turns to anger at Adobe's CONSTANT offers to "help" when I open a PDF. "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading an AI-generated summary." I opened the document because I want to read the freaking document. Your app should do just that.
At a campground and the folks in the neighboring site (with the $500k+ RV) are loudly playing an AI* booster podcast.
AALS, I can't say I'm in love with this framing. AI* (as the term is being used here) is not an inevitability, and I wish our educational institutions (and associated entities) would stop treating it as such.
Currently writing a section of my book on the AI industry's full-court press on educational institutions, and my anger is starting to affect my usual throughput.
Made the mistake at taking a peek at LinkedIn and was almost instantly assaulted by sweaty AI* sales pitches desperately trying to find use cases for their increasingly expensive infrastructure.
I completely revamped my AI Law & Policy course this year, and we've started off this week with an introduction to the (basic) mathematics of ML. The students are really picking it up quickly, and nobody seemed to be scared off yet.
OpenAI commercial using the “faster/harder typing == super productive” trope that shows up so often in bad hacker movies.
I just looked at a music festival's website and except for the very top billed acts, the rest of the cards could have been generated by AI* as far as I could tell.
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