It's a mix of 1.) Sort of minor but ~fine stuff (America.gov, new envelopes) 2.) Cool stuff that is plausibly vaporware (one stop shop for social benefits, faster passport applications and processing)
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America.gov america.gov
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
axios.com
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Can Language Models Encode Perceptual Structure Without Grounding? A Case Study in Color arxiv.org
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The 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI hai.stanford.edu
pnas.org
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Tracking the Impact of AI on the Labor Market budgetlab.yale.edu
Has AI impacted the labor market yet? aleximas.substack.com
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CROSSPOST: HENRY FARRELL: Machine God Metaphors Eat Your Brain braddelong.substack.com
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Three More Thoughts on AI — Matt Bruenig mattbruenig.com
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This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.
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One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something polic…
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On Fed Chair Warsh's interest in alternate sources of data... (reported by @neilirwin.bsky.social in @axios.com ) 1/ The Fed has tons of smart economists, so I'm fairly confident that siccing them on alternate sources of data is going to yield signal. But... www.axios.com/2026…
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Philosopher: "In my book I invented Color Scientist Mary as a thought experiment." Tech Company: "At long last, we have created Color Scientist Mary from classic philosophical paper What Mary Didn't Know (1986)" arxiv.org/abs/2109.06129
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- The paper reports significant structural correspondence between text-derived color-term representations and CIELAB, a perceptually meaningful color space.
- Warmer colors align better than cooler ones with the perceptual color space, echoing recent work on efficient communication in color naming.
- Differences in alignment are partly mediated by collocationality and syntactic usage patterns in text.
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The hype that wasn't ... How AI leaders are rapidly changing their tune. (from the WSJ) Link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
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- Sam Altman told CNBC the AI industry 'underestimated how much we're going to be able to keep people at the center of everything.'
- An EY-Parthenon poll found CEOs expecting AI investments to cut headcount fell from roughly 46% in January 2025 to 20% by May 2026.
- MIT economist David Autor said leaders 'may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.'
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US GDP is $32 trillion, total AI private investment in 2025 was $286 billion (source: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...). That's less than 1%.
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- Industry produced more than 90% of notable frontier models released in 2025, per Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index.
- The top US model leads its nearest Chinese rival by just 2.7% as of March 2026, despite the US spending $285.9B on private AI to China's $12.4B.
- Documented AI incidents climbed to 362 from 233 a year earlier, even as organizational AI adoption reached 88%.
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"[W]e call on the behavioral sciences to pause the use of LLMs as subjects [...] The use of synthetic samples misleads researchers, distorts the published record, and will impede the very science that these studies claim to advance." www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #AI #socialsci…
You can read more here: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/tra...
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nice review of studies on labor market impact of AI. nothing too new, but some nice charts. "Apart from early career workers in exposed fields, the impact of AI on the labor market has thus far been muted. That being said, it would be unwise to assume that this trend will cont…
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...Contra Scott Aaronson, accepting the coming machine god is not now "the epistemic bare minimum" any more than is accepting Friedrich Engels’s belief 150 years ago that the SteamPower Economy was the real singularity that would in short order deliver a classless utopia of un…
Good point on this from Matt Bruenig: mattbruenig.com/2026/08/31/m...
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