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Established Models & releases Research 3d ago
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Builds on stodgier academic work here - www.science.org/stoken/autho... - this, by Roberts et al, is also very interesting on language and LLMs albeit much more political www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Established AI field signal Resource 12d ago
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AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

15 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

15 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org”

Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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New Safety & security Analysis 22h ago
Hugging Face breach human decisions essay

Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

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“And just to be clear, I am not a doomer or a hype guy — here is my position on this incident: thebulletin.org/2026/09/rogu...”

New Policy & governance Resource 22h ago
inference cooperative AI governance

Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“We are now about half way to the threshold at Inference.coop where I'll have to give up my benevolent dictatorship. Want to join the ethical-ish AI train and help unseat me from power?”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Nathan Schneider: We are now about half way to the threshold at Inference.coop where I'll have to give up my benevolent dictatorship. Want to join the ethical-ish AI train and help unseat me from power?
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): We are now about half way to the threshold at Inference.coop where I'll have to give up my benevolent dictatorship. Want to join the ethical-ish AI train and help unseat me from power?
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): @roblach.bsky.social shall we?? #NoKings 😜
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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
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mitpress.mit.edu

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Developing Culture, work & education Signal 2d ago

AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

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“Thanks for making it to the end of the thread! If you want to read more, here’s the full article where I give more detailed data on AI & arts job loss While you’re there, consider subscribing to my newsletter where I write all about econ! www.apricitas.io/p…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
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EA Safety

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“if you want a more philosophical treatment of rationalism/effective altruism's ai movement this is good i believe recent events have caused many of the people we normally call "rationalist adjacent" that they have to say something contraptions.venkateshrao.…”

Established Models & releases Signal 20d ago
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A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“In an expanded class-action lawsuit filed today, a group of Claude subscribers say the company deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...”

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Hayden Field: In an expanded class-action lawsuit filed today, a group of Claude subscribers say the company deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): In an expanded class-action lawsuit filed today, a group of Claude subscribers say the company deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Mike Masnick: Hey Hayden. Am I missing it or does your article not include a link to the filing? Would like to read the underlying complaint and I don't see a link, or even the name of the lead plaintiff to look…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 18d ago
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Percepta AI-native hospital vision

Building the AI-native hospital | Percepta

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Lets make hospitals better: https://t.co/YkHWGNexJi”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: At the startup, we are seeing large productivity gains time after time in deployments of AI that are done thoughtfully. There are so many important things that aren't done because there simply aren…
Eugene Vinitsky: What does thoughtful mean? Domains that have reasonable oversight, or a human-in-the-loop, or where people already have high failure rates, or where being able to do the activity at all outweighs a…
ae: At the startup, we are seeing large productivity gains time after time in deployments of AI that are done thoughtfully. There are so many important things that aren't done because there simply aren…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
Zero Token Architecture conference talk

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture · WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“I'll be speaking at the @wearedevelopers.bsky.social event in San Jose this week. I'm doubling down on my belief that people shouldn't be burning AI tokens when a more efficient option is available. www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congre...”

Established Agents & robotics Analysis 3d ago
robotaxis San Diego equity opinion

Opinion: Who will robotaxis actually serve in San Diego?

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“Robotaxis as "so so tech" "[It] is just good enough to replace human workers but not good enough to significantly improve quality of life or create broad social benefits...[it moves] power away from local public institutions toward private corporations" www…”

Established Responsible AI Analysis 8d ago
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AI taboos argument essay

A case for AI taboos – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“I keep coming back to this list I started on AI taboos: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/a-ca... What else should be on it?”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Nathan Schneider: A case for AI taboos: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/a-case-for-ai-taboos/
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): A case for AI taboos: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/a-case-for-ai-taboos/
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): Love this! You’ve been doing so much awesome writing and public thinking. Thank you!
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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago
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OSF

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“New preprint! A review article on Generative AI and Society, with the fantastic @thomasdavidson.bsky.social & Danny Karell (smartly not online!) osf.io/preprints/so... The lit on genAI is sprawling and mostly not in sociology. Our goal is to synthesize core…”

Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago

static1.squarespace.com

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“Many trust Anthropic leaders' good intentions and it's being confused with trustworthiness of mechanisms & institutions. These aren't the same thing as I learned from the inimitable bad ass political scientist Margaret Levi when we wrote this brief: static1…”

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Serife (Sherry) Wong: All bots are cops.
Serife (Sherry) Wong: @ali-alkhatib.com coined this phrase and has stickers :) Pop it on your signboards and march with it. Says it all really. It is a solid framing and a message to rally behind that can travel quickly…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: All bots are cops.
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What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 48 posts · 2d ago
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Grace: AI writing, unfortunately
Grace: What do we do about this? Substack lets you check for AI with pangram, but it doesn’t show a label upfront. I assume if it started doing that authors would optimize against it. Maybe build it into …
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6 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago
Naomi Saphra: A pattern that I've been surprised by is people writing followup emails for their slop emails. Like, people are getting really insistent that I respond in earnest to emails they did not write.
The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky : s/people writing/AI agents generating/ s/people are getting really insistent/AI agents emailmaxxing/
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