"AI is better understood through past history & current engagement with its actual consequences for contemporary human society than guesses about how it might work magic. More grounded approaches to AI keep on getting dragged back into irresolvable fights"about AGI knightcolum…
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Chris Marsden
Professional on LinkedIn, no quote without permission pls. I'm not the news. Often post blue skies. Mainly sports politics (not US) travel. Prof AI & Internet/tech co-regulation: views personal. He/him #FirstGen Liverpool, cricket & cycling tragic #JFT97
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AI as Social Technology knightcolumbia.org
The AI ‘Revolution' is Not a People's Revolution techpolicy.press
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Pluralistic: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal “user agents” (07 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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Philosopher tasked with keeping Australians safe from AI abc.net.au
The university must not become a supply chain for AI aljazeera.com
Government agencies fail first hurdle under AI self-reporting policy abc.net.au
Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word boingboing.net
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When the people selling AI keep calling it a "revolution," be suspicious. Historically, revolutions were led by people—not inflicted on them. Vassilis Galanos, Tania Duarte & Bruna Martins on why "AI revolution" is rhetoric, not democracy.
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Before "agentic AI," we had the idea that software was your agent on the internet. That's why the technical term for a browser is a "user agent." Your browser acts on your behalf to retrieve and show it you information, in the format you choose. It's your agent: pluralistic.ne…
Dr Conroy's appointment puts an AI ethics specialist, rather than a conventional technical specialist or former regulator, at the head of Australia's first AI safety body. She is the first confirmed member of the AI Safety Institute which was announced in November 2025 www.abc…
"Universities are being told to see AI not only as a tool, but as an organising principle: their students imagined as future workers in need of AI literacy, their staff encouraged to streamline their labour, their institutions remade to be more efficient" uncritical www.aljaze…
"Last year, Australia decided against an EU-style approach to regulating AI and instead tasked each government agency with managing their own use of the technology. ABC can reveal dozens of federal agencies missed mandatory deadlines to disclose how they are using AI" www.abc.…
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Being open to a conscious chatbot, Ted Chiang writes, "is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious."
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