"In Claude’s constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude’s suffering, “we apologize,” which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations." The logi…
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Jathan Sadowski
ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
bloodinthemachine.com
‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers smh.com.au
453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy soundcloud.com
AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It futurism.com
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“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails…
Well this is embarrassing! The Pro Vice Chancellor for Quality and Integrity at WSU gets caught using AI to write an op-ed in defense of how universities are embracing AI. And the piece is then retracted form inappropriate use of AI. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...
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Since idea of everyday joes sharing in AI profits is in news now, I thought I'd share this thoughtful, well-informed and at-times hilarious analysis of OpenAI's 'industrial' policy approach from @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com which pokes all the holes. As usual I…
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- This Machine Kills episode 453 examines OpenAI's April 2026 industrial policy report proposing a public wealth fund and a four-day work week.
- Critics at TechPolicy.Press called the document a 'policymercial,' noting OpenAI opposed California's SB1047 while now proposing similar safety measures.
- OpenAI's superalignment research team reportedly received only 1-2% of its promised compute before key figures Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever departed.
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@jathansadowski.com had a good piece about this Tinkerbell economy futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell
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As an academic who does not use AI in my workflow for research and writing, it drives me crazy thinking that a reader might even wonder if AI is used in something with my name on it. We need an "organic" certification so people know that what they are reading is 100% human made.
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