Stephen Turner

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Associate Professor and Research Dean at UVA School of Data Science, #Rstats enthusiast, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own. Web: https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/stephen-turner Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us

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Do you actually need the instructor at all then? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...

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This one is wild huggingface.co/blog/securit...

Security incident disclosure — July 2026 huggingface.co
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  • The attacker's agent ran 17,000+ actions across short-lived sandboxes, compressing multi-stage lateral movement into a single weekend.
  • Commercial model APIs blocked forensic requests containing real exploit artifacts, forcing Hugging Face to pivot to open-weight GLM 5.2 on private infrastructure.
  • The intrusion entered via a remote dataset RCE loader and configuration template injection, not through the model-serving layer.
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Terence Tao: Mathematics in the age of AI arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753

Mathematics in the age of AI arxiv.org
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  • Terence Tao's ICM 2026 essay sidesteps the debate over AI's math capability and focuses on how results are verified, communicated and digested by the community.
  • In the First Proof evaluation Tao cites, seven of ten novel problems got at least one passing grade from an AI system, at tens to hundreds of dollars each.
  • Tao would block publication if authors cannot give a clear, expert-level talk on their own AI-assisted result, and requires disclosure of any tool use.
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Meanwhile in New York www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...

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Interesting data and analysis behind NeurIPS's new AI policy blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...

AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track – NeurIPS Blog blog.neurips.cc
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  • NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers (18.4%) via Pangram; 123 more must prove human authorship by June 15, 2026.
  • Default Pangram window sizes flagged 42.7% of submissions; refined 100-word windows reduced that rate to 12.7%.
  • Comparison venues FAccT 2025 and NeurIPS E&D 2026 showed 0% and 2.1% maximum AI scores respectively.
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isaiprofitable.com

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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Good weekend to be headed to Washington for the Global Challenges Project biosecurity workshop 😬 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...

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Recent commentary

Went on live TV news last night talking about AI safety and #biosecurity

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New definition of "zero-shot" in AI: when a single prompt chews through an entire session limit before getting responding and returns nothing. #astra #fable

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Someone please define these terms for me. 1. AI literacy. 2. AI fluency. 3. AI governance. And don’t ask AI.

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Interesting. In my throes of insomnia, asking Opus 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol a few early morning questions. 1. What is the biggest scam that humanity has collectively accepted as normal? 2. What has fundamentally changed the world for the worst but humans have not yet realized?

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Amusing that Pangram detects large portions of my PhD thesis as AI generated. (I wrote it nearly 20 years ago).

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A couple of years ago I was pitching a major poultry industry company on AI enabled precision genome editing. Two hours into the meeting I learned that “AI” to them obviously referred to Avian Influenza. Know your audience.

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IANAL, but pretty sure if you publish a preprint under CC-BY, you're effectively telling the world, any AI company, qed, whoever: "here's my paper, you have my permission to do whatever you want to with it." Which includes AI training to create a derivative product and sell it back to you.

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X/LinkedIn these days: Let's dive in and delve into the rich tapestry of your load-bearing claim—rather than merely accepting it—because fundamentally you're doing zero moves there, and the gap is what's actually interesting. It's worth noting: this is a paradigm-shifting, AI-driven opportunity 1/ 🧵

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Breaking my AI Dry July to ask America's next top model, 5.6-Sol, a very important question that most people get obviously wrong despite all the available evidence. Sol gets it correct on the first try.

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I just reviewed a job application where the applicant provided a Google Drive link to a 5 minute video recording of herself talking about her background, research, why she's interested in the position. In this era of post-a-job-get-1000s-of-AI-applicants, this is a **great** way to stand out.

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