The second half of this article really heats up. It shows that when a journalist does the most basic part of their job - to figure out if what people say has any correspondence with truth - they bust a lot of AI ed tech scams. Gift Link:
Who's Who of AI
Lisa Messeri
anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
What they're sharing
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era nytimes.com
The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails | Nature nature.com
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai
Articles & links
Is the purpose of science and 🧪 training to churn out papers or to create a healthy knowledge community? In a @nature.com comment, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I check in on how AI helps with the former while jeopardizing the latter 1/
This excellent and an excellent model for other fields to follow. leidendeclaration.ai
AI Weekly's analysis
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- The Leiden Declaration, released June 2, 2026, warns AI threatens proof integrity, attribution, and peer review in mathematics.
- Over 2,654 signatories including Fields Medal winner Terence Tao have endorsed the community-initiated declaration.
- The International Mathematical Union backs the declaration, which makes separate recommendations to researchers, publishers, policymakers, and AI developers.
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Recent commentary
I have an article under review where I draw a line connecting Scientology and AI rationalists and, well, this picture in the times article about the AGI house and those dissenting from the pope makes me feel like I’m not out on as far as a limb as I thought…
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