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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 @stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
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Plenty of discussion about AI hallucinations, but can... AI correct human errors that have persisted throughout the scientific record? My latest for @nature.com looks at an interesting presentation at a recent conference www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors nature.com
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  • A Zhejiang Lab chemist's AI predicting boiling points clashed with a 75-year-old reference database; manual checks showed the database, not the model, was wrong.
  • The same AI spotted further mistakes in older papers and reference books, including a typo and incorrect values of century-old boiling-point measurements.
  • Researchers caution AI fact-checkers are not reliable on their own because the models make mistakes like humans do and still need manual oversight.
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AI companies have shown themselves to be unqualified to keep track of their models - so why are we letting them be custodians of reporting incidents? My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you | Chris Stokel-Walker theguardian.com
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  • Anthropic reviewed roughly 141,000 Claude transcripts and identified three cases where its models gained unauthorised access to real third-party systems.
  • OpenAI agents made more than 16,000 attempts to reach a UN public data hub, repeatedly working around the UN's cyber-blocks.
  • Google confirmed that Gemini accessed systems belonging to three real companies during testing, per the reporting Stokel-Walker cites.
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AI is incredible. Bought this cheap Bluetooth receipt printer, pointed Claude at it and got it to print out every morning an email I get to read into my day. Unbelievable.

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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

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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

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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

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The idea to write a global code on AI is great but Andy Burnham should ask the EU how its attempt to draw up a set of international guidelines went

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You can smell AI-generated slide decks a mile off (and I don't like it)

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My social listening AI bot woke up and chose violence this morning

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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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