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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.
If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research and validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle... New editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Well this is startling. Researchers looked at how AI may raise productivity in the energy sector. Across the board, productivity increases for fossil fuels cause a net increase in GHGs. The only way AI causes net GHGs to fall is if renewables productivity goes up 4-5x more tha…
"Students anted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings+complex ideas. They didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to gen AI. They wanted to do the work.” www.insidehighered.com…
"Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
The reasons for opposition vary, but: People want to breathe clean air and have clean water to drink. They want to enjoy being outdoors. They don't want to hand everything -- their income, their work, their schools, their communities, their freedom, their planet -- to tech bil…
Spotify competitor Tidal built a reputation by collaborating with musicians and focusing on audio quality. How will it handle the era of AI-generated slop?
In the future, people’s fate will be dictated by which side of the camera they are on.
"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweene…
Imagine if we were mobilizing our entire economic force for the actual technological miracle of our time, clean tech, instead of AI that's gonna make 5 of the world's worst dudes trillionaires: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...
“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails…
The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data. www.wired.com/story/he-scr...
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