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Multiple readings Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Shared emphasis "Useful" is not sufficient Opportunity & adoption · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 10d ago
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NYT essay AI won't steal jobs

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Jeffrey P. Bigham zeynep tufekci Eileen Clancy 🧿 Daniel Solove Neil Turkewitz samuel mehr +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Maybe you mean this from 2023? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... "[LLMs] are not reasoning machines. [...] It’s not just that they don’t test their outputs to make sure they’re correct or logical, or that they fail to do so in certain instances. They can’t, a…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

10 experts discussed this · 51 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 7d ago
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Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

18 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo Grace Anna Mills +10
6 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Established AI field signal Analysis 11d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

9 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Luke Stark Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Dr J. Rosenbaum +1

“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”

“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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Established AI field signal Analysis 14d ago
AI usefulness insufficient critique essay

"Useful" is not sufficient

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender tante Baldur Bjarnason
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing opportunity & adoption.
Shared emphasis

Opportunity & adoption

2 experts

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/”

3 experts discussed this · 8 posts
tante: "In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/
tante: (Sorry, just a quick note, I'd love to write a longer piece on "useful" because it's such a harmful narrative)
tante: Gotta figure out if I might want to pitch that somewhere or just dump it on the blog ;))
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3 experts · 6 posts · 2d ago
Timnit Gebru Louise Amoore Baldur Bjarnason
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Timnit Gebru: Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of shit you are and then you run to daddy US government begging to stop these "bad" Chinese m…
Timnit Gebru: The irony of OpenAI and Anthropic running to the government to save them whenever there’s competition and it’s this government that complains about “handouts” and communism.
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