I don’t get the “I’m so flooded with peer reviews I simply must use AI” take. Just uhh turn them down? Click decline.
I got a *remarkably quick* rejection email from a tenure track job that I applied to. Rejections are part of the process! However, if you’re going to screen candidates with ai, please don’t ask for more than a cv and let us know! It’s a lot of time learning about your dept, writing and tailoring.
I’ll write a longer blog post about it soon, but I’ll believe OpenAI agents have formed a hacking collective and it’s not just a PR stunt when they ransomware a Swiss bank, not another AI outfit about to be acquired by a hardware providider; when Interpol not MIRI investigates.
Effective altruism is unequivocally finding a doomsday disinformation campaign. As scientists who serve the public, it’s our job to call bullshit on our colleagues and journalists who propagate unfounded claims that AI doomsday is upon us, even couched as “boiling the frog slow”.
Had my first email arising from what seems to be an LLM-guided spite-check of my published code. Anyone else experienced this yet? I'm pulling the repo and verifying the possible error, will happily correct if need be but this seems like a great way to DDoS scientists. #metascience #AcademicSky
Because it keeps popping up in AI articles, “Cure for cancer” is a pretty good indicator that someone knows fuck all about biology. At minimum both should be plural!
One thing I'm noticing looking at AI funding is that there is a class of researcher who relies almost solely on industry funding and *doesn't* report it anywhere; rarely having a CV. You just find it in like university announcements.
One of the more common responses I got yesterday was the argument from philosophy of mind that roughly asserts simpler organisms than ourselves must also have minds (lest we be human chauvinists); perhaps even groups of organisms therefore LLMs must have minds too. It's a rhetorical switcheroo tho.
It's wild to me that journalists at storied institutions can't smell an IPO pump and instead wind up sanity-laundering the weird AI Death cult.
The group that got all of that coverage for investigating the Hugging Face attack (METR) wrote a paper where "evidence" consisted of "An Anthropic co-founder said so"
