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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“2 articles: OpenAI: "During testing our AI broke out of its sandbox and hacked another AI company, but we didn't have all the guardrails on." Boko Haram: "AI is so helpful; guardrails have never prevented us from getting an answer." openai.com/index/huggin.…”
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“model capability jaggedness is part of the unintuitiveness of current AI, but it's made even less intuitive by tirelessness… wigguming through the jaggedness toward something that looks like success. not quite a paperclip factory, but not so far off. metaph…”
Questions & unknowns
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“OpenAI is begging for money so they don't release a monster when not releasing a monster is in fact very easy. Their systems can all be turned off (and if they can't, uh?) openai.com/index/huggin...”
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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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essay how to talk AI
11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“3. Any press releases & news articles examined for anthropomorphizing language, especially language that locates agency with software rather than people & companies. See: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... >>”
“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”
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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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4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““His legal team said his lawsuit is ‘the first complaint against OpenAI that details the specific risks posed to members of the disabled community as a result of the company’s recklessness.’””
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“The spiraling shape will make you go insane. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...”
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““The real AI jobs apocalypse - by Brian Merchant” https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-real-ai-jobs-apocalypse > But instead of replacing tens of millions of workers, it’s mostly making them miserable.”
Research & technical analysis
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“Had a great chat with @alexhanna.bsky.social about the rising discontentment with AI among workers, her findings from running the Luddite Lab, which gives workers interested in resisting AI resources and support, and a lot more www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/t…”
AI everything world benchmark
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“Raji et al 2021: AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark. datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/h... >>”
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developer abandons AI tools essay
6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettc…”
“"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's got…”
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.”
“Hey look at this * Rising Customer Durability, Falling Business Dynamism www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/rese... * DOGE Affiliate Asked for College Credit for Participating in Takeover www.wired.com/story/doge-a... * Why office workers are turning against AI w…”
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“The backlash to data centers, Flock, Meta glasses, and AI, is loud, animated, bipartisan, and wielding real power. It's the most popular and united political movement in the nation right now, and it's still growing. So of course Silicon Valley is in complet…”
“* So the People May Sing. The Anthem Still Goes to Trial. copyrightlately.com/corretjer-br... * Neo-ZIRP Slop in the Post-ZIRP Era superbowlstevehunt.substack.com/p/neo-zirp-s... * Mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. www.bl…”
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“Bender 2024: Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI". Current Directions in Psychological Science 33(2):114-120. doi.org/10.1177/0963... Related talks: CogSci 2022: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-... Katz (UW) 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc... >>”
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w... "Anthropic do not care. They never cared. And it’s pretty absurd that they managed to win the exact opposite perception in a PR battle, in advance of a looming IPO."”
“https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/why-anthropics-ultra-dirty-deal-shouldnt-surprise-you-at-all/ > Anthropic do not care. They never cared. And it’s pretty absurd that they managed to win the exact opposite perception in a PR battle, in advance of a looming IPO.”
AI ethics discourse problems essay
5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“New on the MAIHT3k newsletter -- how to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @deccamuldowney.bsky.social”
“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…”
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9h ago
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““Abdicati | blarg” exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/0... > I can’t begin tell you how tired I am of people anthropomorphizing AI in a way that lets OpenAI and its employees straight up confess to committing crimes on stage”
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3h ago
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“In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention? Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to u…”
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“One for EU citizens: The EU is asking for feedback on "strategic vision for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the cultural and creative sectors and industries" You can tell them not to fund more slop in the arts!”
stochastic parrots AI rejection essay
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““I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots” https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html > My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. This.”
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4d ago
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“A discussion of what analog cognition and consciousness imply for AI. Spoiler: the brain operates fundamentally differently from today’s AI. thecynefin.co/cognitive-ou... #neuroscience”
““Cognitive outsourcing 3/3: analogue asymmetry - The Cynefin Co” https://thecynefin.co/cognitive-outsourcing-3-3-analogue-asymmetry/ > It breaks the idea that it is just a matter of time before AI gets there, because token processing is very different from …”
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19d ago
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“Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography) washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washing... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social”
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Emily M. Bender: Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography) washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washing... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social
Baldur Bjarnason: Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography) washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washing... w/@alexhanna.bsky.social
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TESCREAL acronym defense essay
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“For an accessible introduction to the TESCREAL thesis--a name for the Silicon Valley worldview behind the ASI race, which simultaneously highlights the relevant intellectual history--see this article of mine: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/skeptical-...”
