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Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago

Ai chatgpt medication epilepsy death

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“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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Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
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I Am An AI Hater essay

I Am An AI Hater

9 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“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 Analysis 6d ago
NVIDIA AI climate claims critique

NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax

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““NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax” https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/nvidias-ai-climate-hoax-report/ > With that in mind, we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025’s use of NVIDIA’S AI products is on par with the state-owne…”

Established AI business Development 14d ago
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Altman opposes personal home AI models

OpenAI CEO says it

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Questions & unknowns

2 experts

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Sam's latest dumb comments were made on Cheeky Pint, a YouTube channel by Stripe co-founder John Collison one of an endless array of tech bro safe-spaces intended to supplant actual journalists asking actual questions of powerful people”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

““OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization” Substitute "RAM" for "money" and you have modern capitalism in a nutshell”

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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Markets & investment

2 experts

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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Accelerating AI field signal Development 11h ago
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FAA AI air traffic nationwide rollout

FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Nov 13: “The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system.” arstechnica.com/features/202...”

““FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace” https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace/ The timing of this rollout, just days before things…”

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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Policy & governance

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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 Responsible AI Analysis 6d ago
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AI ethics discourse problems essay

Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI”

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“This means checking the impulse to hedge. Even as we might care for individual people who are embroiled in the project of "AI", we still don't have to hold space for the project. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... >>”

“New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @emilymbender.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social on what we're talking about when we talk about "ethical" "AI", and how to move away from the untenable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistan…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Year after the ai mandate nobody

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“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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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago
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ru.nl

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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 field signal Signal 5d ago

simonandschuster.com

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“My mom calls this dress "the table cloth dress." You'll see from my book, DEEP UNLEARNING, that this is par for the course. Like the time she responded to my first profile by telling me not to let it get to my head 😂 You can preorder @ www.simonandschuster.…”

Established Models & releases Signal 12d ago

Understanding the True Purpose of Generative AI in Ads

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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““Understanding the True Purpose of Generative AI in Ads” https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/11/02/microsoft-just-gave-us-the-perfect-name-for-ai-thieves-kyle/ > The narrator drops a precise timestamp, like he’s recounting the exact moment of a terrorist bombing ins…”

Established AI business Development 10d ago
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Anthropic Claude admin monitoring tool

Anthropic Debuts Tool for Your Boss to Spy on Your Claude Chats

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

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““…management can use Smart Reports to sort their workers’ AI output by overall cost as well as the chatbot’s output, allowing direct oversight over employee’s perceived efficiency when using AI tools.””

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 10d ago
AI labor displacement fight essay

The AI labor fight is already here

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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““What we wanted to do with the AI Resist List is to start a living archive of resistance to AI and the inevitability narratives that private companies and tech bros have been pushing for the last number of years, especially around generative AI,” -@petramol…”

Developing Culture, work & education Analysis 2d ago
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essay against generative AI replacing workers

Why I don't use generative 'AI': it exists to replace writers, coders, and artists #chatbot #chatgpt

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“Yesterday's short: "It exists to replace writers, coders, artists, and musicians" www.youtube.com/shorts/ZoesQ...”

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3 experts · 12 posts · 6d ago
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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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