Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈

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Philosopher of Perception and the Cognitive Sciences at #UCD, #Dublin. Father of #LittleHuman. Former computer programmer & sound engineer. Maintains various #philosophy lists, feeds and starter packs. ↘ 🚫🤖, ✅🧠 #LongCOVID https://keithwilson.eu (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social

The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshittifying product to …

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work 404media.co
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1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities nytimes.com
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  • The White House's July 21 report 'Science: A New Golden Age' reshapes a roughly $200 billion federal R&D budget, steering money away from universities.
  • OSTP director Michael Kratsios and OMB director Russell Vought want portable 'golden ticket' awards that follow individual scientists, not their institutions.
  • A companion Genesis Mission commitment adds more than $5 billion for AI-driven research across 15-plus agencies, from drug discovery to grid modernization.
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“In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's #Muse AI is stealing #Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.” #Meta #DataPrivacy appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent appleinsider.com
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  • Meta's Muse agent synced roughly 187,000 lines from a Mac's Apple Messages database despite Full Disk Access being disabled.
  • Tester Jason Aten explicitly declined Messages permission at setup, yet Muse's own settings later showed the access as enabled.
  • Asked how it knew, Muse claimed it only saw notification previews; Meta has not answered Aten's questions about the discrepancy.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 404media.co
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  • 319 knowledge workers were surveyed; 62% reported engaging in less critical thinking on routine tasks when they leaned on generative AI.
  • Workers with higher confidence in their own expertise were 27% more likely to critically assess AI output rather than take it at face value.
  • Researchers warn automation shifts users from task execution to oversight, leaving judgment 'atrophied and unprepared' when exceptions arise.
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A piece of good news in the middle of the darkness we live in: "SpaceX will not gain accelerated access to potentially billions more dollars through passive investment funds that automatically purchase shares of S&P 500 companies." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic arstechnica.com
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  • S&P Dow Jones upheld all three entry rules: 12-month seasoning, four profitable GAAP quarters, and a 10% public float minimum.
  • SpaceX reported a $4.94 billion net loss in 2025, barring S&P 500 inclusion until at least mid-2027.
  • Bloomberg Intelligence estimates the three companies collectively miss roughly $27 billion in forced passive fund buying.
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*This article from Emily Bender and Nanna Inie, which suggests ‘probabilistic automation’, is an excellent start: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

How to talk about buttondown.com
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  • The guide covers six language categories: cognition, emotion, communication, agency, human-role analogies, and biological metaphors.
  • Proposed substitutions include 'probabilistic automation' for 'artificial intelligence' and 'conversation simulator' for 'chatbot.'
  • Rephrasing 'ChatGPT assisted students' as 'the students used ChatGPT' is given as an example of restoring human accountability.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social

Apparently scientists have discovered that when you don’t practice a skill it does not develop and you are less motivated to engage in tasks requiring this skill. Thanks science.

nytimes.com
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  • A Technion fMRI study found 6- and 7-year-olds' brains showed less synchronized blood flow in attention regions during ChatGPT use than adults'.
  • In an MIT EEG trial across 32 brain regions, essayists using ChatGPT showed the lowest brain engagement and underperformed on multiple measures.
  • Brookings' Rebecca Winthrop calls the pattern 'cognitive stunting': children short-circuiting the process of building thinking skills rather than offloading existing ones.
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“It is not just that people trust wrong #AI answers. It is that the mere availability of AI suppresses the cognitive habit of recognising what you do not know.” #GenAI #LLMs thenextweb.com/news/ai-advi...

AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found thenextweb.com
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  • In a Milano-Bicocca-led study, participant accuracy on film trivia fell from 27% to 9% when they had access to AI advice.
  • Willingness to say 'I don't know' collapsed from 44% to 3%, while stated confidence rose from 30% to 76%.
  • Wharton researchers earlier this year coined 'cognitive surrender' for users accepting wrong AI answers about 80% of the time.
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More evidence of animal inner lives! Zebra finches were played back recorded sounds from other zebra finches. Sometimes they confused calls with the same meaning rather than the same sound, implying they have mental imagery of the meaning of their vocalisations! www.theguardia…

A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong | Animal behaviour | The Guardian theguardian.com
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Equal access to a personal AI agent isn't equal power, writes University of Oslo professor Petter Bae Brandtzaeg. Personalization "can create an illusion of decentralization"—power appears handed to individuals while staying concentrated in the infrastructure their agents depe…

No Zuckerberg, The Future is Not Just For Individuals techpolicy.press
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Any news report that starts “OpenAI says…” or claims “an AI” (sic) has “broken containment” or “gone rogue” is no longer doing journalism, but PR for the #AI industry. #OpenAI used their product to hack a third-party and failed to implement adequate safeguards. That’s it. That’s the story. #AIHype

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What if the real alignment problem isn’t to get AI systems to be aligned with human goals and values, but to get *AI companies* to be so, one being a function of the other? #AIEthics #LLMs

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A student in my philosophy of mind and AI class today described it as “rage bait every week”—and we haven’t even got to the AI part yet! (I’ve decided to take it as a positive. 😅)

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Had the displeasure of configuring a #Windows laptop for #LittleHuman to use at school. I was shocked by the extent to which #Copilot now permeates the #Microsoft ecosystem. Even searches for answers to simple support questions run through Copilot. Such a wasteful use of technology. #Micro$lop

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“Siri AI will not initially be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.” Makes you wonder which EU privacy law it contravenes. 🤨 #SiriAI #AppleIntelligence #wwdc26

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As a rule of thumb, the people who are most enthusiastic about #GenAI are those who are least committed to truth, accuracy and expertise in their own lives. In short, they have similar characteristics to an LLM, and assume everyone else does too. #Enshittification

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Excited to hear @olivia.science’s research on what #AI is and why it is harmful at today’s @adaptcentre.bsky.social webinar. (Happening now!) #PhilAI #CogSci

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Setting up a peer assessment assignment for my 100+ Mind & AI students. This could all go horribly wrong… 😬 #teaching #academia

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Whatever happened to the idea of #micropayments for accessing websites? It’s not without its problems, that’s true, but surely better than the current mess of advertising, paywalls, subscriptions, and AI slop?

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#AI seems to be driving everyone to distraction. AI boosters by undermining their cognitive capacities. AI critics by having to refute the nonsense put out by AI boosters. Meanwhile, the world just keeps getting hotter. 😓

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