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Multiple readings Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis ru.nl Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily Spark Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Year after the ai mandate nobody

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Andrew Perfors Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 Baldur Bjarnason

“Apropos of nothing at all, I keep thinking about this Reddit post. www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode...”

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: I take no pleasure in being right.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: the Titanic absolutely had some poor autistic person on it who was like THERE IS OBVIOUSLY AN ICEBERG RIGHT THERE and everyone yelled at them for ruining the party until the moment they hit it
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: I’m in this game to keep users safe, myself
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
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I Am An AI Hater essay

I Am An AI Hater

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Emily M. Bender Mar Hicks Olivia Guest Eileen Clancy 🧿 tante Anthony Moser Dwayne Monroe Katie (Kathryn) Conrad +1

“We can practice being bold and clear with our positions, and in doing so set an example and create space for others to do the same, as @anthonymoser.com does so well here. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h... >>”

“asking for explanations from a system that is structurally incapable of understanding causal relationships does not seem like a good use of time to me”

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Emily M. Bender: Thinking about hedges, what they hold space for, and who is expected to use them in discourse about "AI". (This thread inspired by conversations with @lmesseri.bsky.social + editing a piece based o…
Emily M. Bender: When people are selling tech and/or speaking from deep faith in the coming of their machine god, they are licensed to make blanket assertions about "AI" being the future, inveitable, etc. etc. >>
Emily M. Bender: Plenty of folks disagree with those claims, and rightly so, but we rarely see overt expectations that the "AI" boosters should be more temperate in their statements. Which journalists ask Altman, A…
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Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago

Ai chatgpt medication epilepsy death

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Emily M. Bender Lucy Li Alex Hanna Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) +5

“This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, that has fuck-all to do with OpenAI's culpability here. www.…”

“I spent most of last year covering ChatGPT-4o's unsettling effects on some users. OpenAI pulled it off the market in February. @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social writes about a software engineer who died in Feb who had been using 4o to help her go off her epileps…”

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Emily M. Bender: This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, …
Emily M. Bender: And this is just astonishing --- your chatbot killed someone who was using it for medical advice and you want to say that's still a good use case?
Luke Stark: This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, …
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Established Models & releases Analysis 14d ago
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Amnesty International generative AI human rights report

Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

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Iris van Rooij Luke Stark James Grimmelmann Alix Dunn tante rev. howard arson Pavel Adverb +3
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Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."”

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“> Without significant changes to how these systems are developed and deployed, they will continue to undermine international human rights laws and standards. www. amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This is a pretty good report overall. Hard to dis…”

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James Grimmelmann: I know people who do a shitload of web scraping without the consent of the people whose servers and personal data are being scraped. And do you know why they do it? To document human rights violati…
James Grimmelmann: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
Adverb: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago
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ru.nl

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Abstract Tesseract Baldur Bjarnason
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Iris van Rooij: “(…) But if you ask AI to take over, you run into many risks, from getting stuck in existing theories to deskilling future scientists. It creates inconsistencies, which runs the risk of introducing…
Iris van Rooij: “(…) it’s a fallacy to think that cognitive science can be automated. @olivia.science: ‘Doing theoretical work is very difficult, and sometimes researchers might fall for instant gratification (…) …
Olivia Guest: “(…) it’s a fallacy to think that cognitive science can be automated. @olivia.science: ‘Doing theoretical work is very difficult, and sometimes researchers might fall for instant gratification (…) …
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Established AI business Analysis 15d ago
AI ROI absent outside tech sector

No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily Spark

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Alex Hanna Olivia Guest Danielle Citron Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Dan Greene Dare Obasanjo tante Daniel Solove +2
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing markets & investment.
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Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Chief Economist at Apollo--incredible name, Torsten Slok--sees no payoff for AI outside tech so far. Doesn't see any productivity growth (big measurement problem admittedly). Revenue per employee and profit margins are up in the magnificent 7 but flat every…”

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Alex Hanna: No rise in productivity due to AI, according to that great Luddite institute, Apollo Global Management. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
Olivia Guest: No rise in productivity due to AI, according to that great Luddite institute, Apollo Global Management. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
Margaret Mitchell: 😬
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
AI cost value worth analysis

Is AI worth the price?

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Pavel Baldur Bjarnason

“Weirdly I get a 404 but the post is still up at www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/11...”

“So, apparently Bluesky's link redirector broke the link somehow by encoding a URL hash 🤷‍♂️ This link should work. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/11...”

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Baldur Bjarnason: “Is AI worth the price?” https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/11/12/is-ai-worth-the-price/#gsc.tab=0 > I suspect that most people are completely unaware of the extent to which they are already …
Pavel: Weirdly I get a 404 but the post is still up at www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/11...
Baldur Bjarnason: Weird.
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Established Models & releases Analysis 19d ago
generative AI refusal abstinence metaphor essay

Why Abstinence-Only Sex Education is a Bad Metaphor for Generative AI Refusal

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Olivia Guest Baldur Bjarnason

“and in terms of comparing to sex ed, please do not... > How we talk about generative AI refusal matters. I think it’s wrong to compare generative AI refusal to an authoritarian, anti-science, anti-LGBTQ+, sexist framework for teaching young people about sex.”

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Iris van Rooij: Ive been thinking the same thing, and kind of hesitant to say it out loud because we're already a group considered to be luddites and technophobes, when its really our sense that students absolutel…
Olivia Guest: I dunno if you had this linked to you two already but it's great refusal.blog/2026/04/07/w...
Abstract Tesseract: Yeah this has been so hard for me because the dominant culture in some of my circles is a credulous, reactionary centrist "open-mindedness". People think I'm being foolish or closed-minded for havi…
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator Baldur Bjarnason alanau.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Like many cases where AI exacerbates an existing condition, one thing going on here is the tech industry already massively failed as a business culture to engage in minimally effective industrial a…
Baldur Bjarnason: Like many cases where AI exacerbates an existing condition, one thing going on here is the tech industry already massively failed as a business culture to engage in minimally effective industrial a…
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