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Cognitive scientist working on AI critique
Cognitive scientist working on AI critique with public evidence across AI research.
This editor/author does the same “trick” as he writes: "Recently, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields. New AI agents can now carry out many aspects of research…
What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
When an "AI" provider announces a new result, remember they have a product to sell. Watch for the careful and systematic ways human labour is elided at every step and claims about the model and the 'discovery' process are shielded from direct inspection Today's specimen: opena…
Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
Lawyers for both the plaintiffs and the defendants submitted written submissions based on fabricated, imaginary precedents and quotations. In essence, AI systems conducted the proceedings against one another without the lawyers checking the results. 😂 www.404media.co/judge-lea…
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
Can your calculator communicate when you turn it upside down? Experts believe it's at least possible. We urgently need to understand the ethical implications of numbers like 5318008. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Worth reading this whole piece, which ends with something that I've been leaning on lately too: the answer isn't to give up. Writing/thinking/learning, all part of making meaning in your life, which kids need and deserve. And good teachers matter! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-…
Today in AI in education is cop shit: "BusPatrol’s cameras would take a photo of each car a bus drives past, record the car’s license plate and GPS location, and then law enforcement can query that data."
Conscientious objection should be absolutely normalised, independent of religion. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
@olivia.science @kh0rish.bsky.social I'm getting a LOT of criti-hype vibes from this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:
Sometimes seeing people I liked, studied with, became friends with at conferences over the past 15 years become AI boosters actually hurts my feelings. Other times it was fully predictable because they only did degrees to work for Google or IBM back in the day or to start a weird little start-up.
Saying AI is bad, but it's ok for coding is the kind of logic that got us into this mess. Nobody takes this seriously anymore. And relatedly, ditto for when they keep insisting that usefulness is the hinge on which to evaluate the tech, as if we claimed the problem with AI is it's not useful. 1/n
If you all have an ounce of self control left, please stop polluting by posting the output of nonsense chatbots on here as if it's funny or charming. It's 2026... we're tired of seeing it.
we have to take a step back and ask: who prefers to talk round & round in circles instead of positive change in the world? to go to battle over words instead of deeper ideas & even more importantly actually fighting AI? the answers are who are the (accidental maybe) sell outs and the crypto fash
Has anybody else noticed that with the yankification of UK politics for example we also have yankification of the mainstream internet and of academia? Everything through AI has been streamlined into nonsense of the average USA chud, lowest bar — not typical stiff upper lip or whatever else. 1/
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