Ali Alkhatib

> Even if the MS Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously we're so close to talking about how thoroughly captured by big tech H…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com

AI Skeptics reading group meeting in about an hour. if you want to drop in, i shared this video and offered some reflections on it. it's not too late to watch it if you want, but watch it ASAP @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, @samleecole.bsky.social, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social, and…

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hadn't seen this on my timeline yet, but it looks interesting from an initial skim

AI Is Theft - Dissent Magazine dissentmagazine.org

so the question was... what are we going to do about it, knowing that this is the chess move being set up? i offered some rambling thoughts about what my/our move is, that just went out to subscribers. you can read it here (and also find links to join the video chat at 8pm ET,…

[AI Skeptics] summer catch-up reflections (week 1) buttondown.com

> ... Chieng leaned into his AI skepticism... btw join the AI Skeptics Reading Group: buttondown.com/ai-skeptics-... we're reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social, and we're chatting about chapter 4 tonight :)

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whenever someone tells me what a chatbot said i feel myself die a little bit on a number of levels all at once

last week we saw policies regarding AI from arxiv & from berkeley law school - both substantially limiting reckless use of AI (with different goals, methods, etc). i'm curious if anyone here is aware of other recent-ish new policies on AI use in workplaces or related settings. (let's say in 2026)

i feel like if i was an admin at a university trying to advance the use of AI, i would try really really hard to make sure that all of my work was unassailable, even if it meant hiring an extraordinary team of editors & fact checkers that would be impossible for other university employees to employ.

super impressed with @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social's work on supporting bottom-up resistance to harmful AI systems. she just presented her dissertation work and is doing Q&A now

to be found by the zionists, AI dipshits, etc.. on here is like discovering a little pile of dust i had overlooked, and can now sweep up and get out of the house.

can someone tell me if the story from axios about an unnamed company spending $500M in a month on AI services is real or if it's the kind of thing where it's "$500M worth of tokens except nobody pays that rate, and so $50k actually changed hands" kind of nonsense, kind of like this stupid shit?