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Assistant professor of AI ethics, Western University
Assistant professor of AI ethics, Western University with public evidence across AI business, AI research, Responsible AI.
Using chatbots for nonfiction and journalism seems like playing Russian roulette with a semi-automatic firearm. Writing is hard enough without a minefield of fabricated quotes and flagrant plagiarism. Also, the cognitive offloading seems to weaken discipline. www.nytimes.com/2…
“As people continue to organize for a better future, we're likely to see more surveillance and criminalization of this opposition, just as we have of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and environmental movements in recent decades…”
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404m…
@alondra.bsky.social on growing moves to develop a civic grammar for AI rights: “A practice travels rapidly across unconnected sites when it has been abstracted into a portable model that actors can adopt without direct contact with the original.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
the regime is destroying basic research to do economic sabotage fortunately iconic blue state governor has a different means for the same goal “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” www.nytimes.c…
"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.c…
Counterpoint: No I will not
"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
This is the last nail in the coffin for small publishers. "Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information…
Great profile of Hany Farid who recently left Bay Area for Vermont: "I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
The single most important thing I have done in my writing classes since 2023 is teach students how LLMs work--and to create curriculum for this that was adopted across first-year writing at Harvard. Right now we cannot assume students understand this-and it matters. www.nytime…
Mark Carney has great faith in two extractive and destructive sectors, fossil fuels and AI, which should call into question his own value(s) as a politician and leader.
The thing about an LLM is, best case, the more you use it, the less capable you are of exploiting it
In advance of the official release of the Canadian AI Strategy, here's a fun(?) exercise: can you provide a succinct definition of "today's AI" within the BSky character limit? Descriptive attempts only please! I can almost guarantee you it will be better than what's in the document.
Do "online safety" and "AI safety" have the same definition of "safety"?
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