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Robin Z

85 trust researcher @firepile.bsky.social · 3,679 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education.

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Professor, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, 4e Cognition and Artificial Intelligence; Science Fiction Fan, Cyborgologist, Retired Knitter, Comic Book Reader, 4ad records fanatic. Wanna see me nerd out about music stuff? @musicephemera.bsky.social
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Remember this @404media.co report about the Vegas Amazon facility destroying rare books? Today in my AI class, one of my students realized we were talking about the facility where he had worked. He had no idea what the purpose of the book scanning was - they were told they cou…

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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We have to stop using "paper count" as a useful scientific metric. More writing output no longer means more knowledge gained www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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  • SSRN removed 257 papers written or co-written by University of Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson and froze the accounts used to upload them.
  • Polson posted roughly 200 papers over nine months of 2026 and also published 14 books, most focused on statistics and mathematics.
  • SSRN said Polson's papers did not disclose AI use, but framed 'the unusual pattern of paper submissions' as the bigger issue.
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“…the same mechanisms that drive people to grow wary of — and hostile toward — friends, co-workers and family members with different political beliefs are beginning to shape attitudes toward AI.”

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@blekhman.bsky.social

We have to stop using "paper count" as a useful scientific metric. More writing output no longer means more knowledge gained www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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2/2 For easier ways into the conversation, check out my 2025 @noemango.bsky.social essay "The Mythology of Conscious AI" (winner, 2025 Berggruen Essay Prize, www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...), and my 2026 main-stage TED talk www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...

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Some rando trying to sell AI grading systems made the mistake of cold emailing me at work and I had prosecco for dinner so I replied with a link to @danmcquillan.bsky.social's "the role of the university is to resist AI" 🤷‍♀️

The role of the University is to resist AI danmcquillan.org
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2/2 For easier ways into the conversation, check out my 2025 @noemango.bsky.social essay "The Mythology of Conscious AI" (winner, 2025 Berggruen Essay Prize, www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...), and my 2026 main-stage TED talk www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...

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I'm so annoyed at all of the Discourses about College and AI that now I'm thinking I'll teach a class next year just called WAT: Writing-As-Thinking where we'll look at the theory and cognitive science behind the claim that writing is a distinct form of thought and GenAI should fuck off into the sun

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Seeing a tenure-track job advertised at a major research university in "generative AI and cognitive science" is bleak af

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People stop saying that a robot is "embodied AI" challenge 2026

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So I have my AI students do an assignment where they count surveillance cameras in a location of their choosing so we can talk about the ways data is aquired and used, and one student counted 65 cameras in our tiny SLAC library. THE LIBRARY. I haven't confirmed yet but MY GOD.

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Received a request to review a paper that includes an AI disclaimer from the author that they used GenAI to "understand" multiple texts in languages they do not speak. I am screaming into my pillow forever.

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New @cottonbureau.com shirt arrived today 🤘 and Rocket immediately tried to eat it. Rocket would eat AI if she could.

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I can write a eulogy or I can shitpost about AI bullshit at 11pm on a Friday night and I think you know which one I'm going to do

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More in the spirit of telling people on here when I'm teaching with their materials: Monday my AI in Fact and Fiction class is discussing @samtasticbooks.com's The Rabbit Test in our continuing discussions of data and surveillance!

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