In their dreams, it does. www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
Articles & links
Irony murdered: A book about truth and AI apparently includes quotes made up by AI. The author says he'll investigate. Whom? Himself? (Disclosure: I deflected requests to blurb it.) Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
Cal Newport -- @author-calnewport.bsky.social -- is so right. Gift link. Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
It's Godzilla v Mothra as AI billionaires throw their weight around in our democracy. Gift link. ‘This Is a War’: How Powerful A.I. Super PACs Are Dueling Over the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...
Lovely essay equates Waiting for Godot with AGI. "The persistence of waiting, therefore, reflects a distribution of roles whose coherence depends on anticipation rather than on settled judgment" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
JFC, Rosenbaum refuses to take responsibility and he's still promoting the book on his socials without coming clean. His book is supposed to be about truth. AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The problem, I've been shouting, is not the technology but humans: It is impossible to predict--thus forbid--every malign use to which a general machine can be subjected. Guardrails are fools' comfort. Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/…
I love the Guardian. Best we have. Journalism's last hope. But its digital puritanism (after early years of digital love) drives me nuts. They tell us to give up phones and the net and now AI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Take that, Elon. Jury Rejects Musk’s Claims Against OpenAI wsj.com/tech/ai/jury...
Brockman's hubris: “The company very much needed me to come in and help.” He and his wife gave "$50 million to two super PACs aligned with President Trump and the AI industry." The Billionaire Coding Genius Making the Tough Decisions at OpenAI www.wsj.com/tech/openai-...
6 ways I say Axios can warp journalism 5 ways Pope Leo says AI could warp humanity www.axios.com/2026/05/25/p...
Recent commentary
Mastodon's AI-aided addition of alt-text is wonderful (everyone should have it). Bonus: How it reads The Times' gothic logo.
The anonymous slander campaign against NJ7 candidate Rebecca Bennett gets more disgusting by the day. This just arrived in our mail. No, this doesn't require AI to make a photographic lie. It requires only the dark soul of a chickenshit liar.
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