Who's Who of AI

Prof. Dr Beth Singler

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Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
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@maggieastor.bsky.social

Well no, it doesn't diminish those questions, but it sure makes you look like the wrong person to answer them www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

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AI Weekly's analysis →
  • The Future of Truth, a book about AI disinformation, contained AI-fabricated quotes attributed to real people that passed editorial review.
  • EY Canada separately retracted a client report days earlier after 60% of its citations were found to be AI hallucinations.
  • Both failures share the same mechanism: AI tools inserted at the research stage produced fabrications that downstream human review did not catch.
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Oh, what's that... some recent articles on machines praying, you say?! 1. "Will AI Create a Religion?" 2023 muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... 2. Existential Conversations with LLMs (with M. Shanahan) 2024: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13223 3. LLM theisms (book chapter, behind paywall) 2026,…

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Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations arstechnica.com/science/2026...

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social

I have achieved peak Textpocalypse, having now been quoted in an article about AI slop that is itself AI slop (and clearly ripped off from Jill LaPore’s recent NYer piece). eu.36kr.com/en/p/3823865...

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The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding reut.rs/4upSIYq

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Oh, what's that... some recent articles on machines praying, you say?! 1. "Will AI Create a Religion?" 2023 muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... 2. Existential Conversations with LLMs (with M. Shanahan) 2024: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13223 3. LLM theisms (book chapter, behind paywall) 2026,…

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