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Multiple readings ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings The Future Is Not Tech-Forward Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
⚡ 4 h early
AI classroom youth harm essay

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…” evidence ↗
13 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark Steph Wright Mél Hogan / The Data Fix tante Benjamin Riley +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
⚡ 8 h early
tech-forward future skepticism essay

The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…” evidence ↗
7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Brian Merchant Taylor Lorenz Eryk Salvaggio Ali Alkhatib Edward Ongweso Jr Frank Pasquale Benjamin Riley
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubbl…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.”

Primary source thetechbubble.info ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 11d ago

Llms cant jump

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Benjamin Riley
“Everything about this, from the title -- LLM's Can't Jump -- to how Einstein developed relativity to the ultimate conclusion that AI is merely "a sophisticated 'Chinese Room' operation" is delightful. And surprise, authored by someone at Google DeepMind. ww…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Benjamin Riley

“Everything about this, from the title -- LLM's Can't Jump -- to how Einstein developed relativity to the ultimate conclusion that AI is merely "a sophisticated 'Chinese Room' operation" is delightful. And surprise, authored by someone at Google DeepMind. ww…”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Benjamin Riley: Everything about this, from the title -- LLM's Can't Jump -- to how Einstein developed relativity to the ultimate conclusion that AI is merely "a sophisticated 'Chinese Room' operation" is delightf…
Benjamin Riley: @seantrott.bsky.social I think you'll enjoy this one
Benjamin Riley: I mean when Altman and Amodei declare that that these models will “solve physics” and cure most if not all diseases, it reflects an implicit belief that creativity (as complex problem solving) is a…
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Primary source tomzahavy.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago

Humans understand what AI cannot

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Benjamin Riley
“A little more on this here, if you’re curious: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/humans-und...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Benjamin Riley

“A little more on this here, if you’re curious: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/humans-und...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Benjamin Riley: I mean yeah, LLMs. Pretty remarkable to hear Bowden describe causal relationships “built into our brain, our retina, whatever.” I’m sure that made more sense to her than it does to me.
Benjamin Riley: Maybe that’s what she meant, but regardless, this assumes what is she (or you) are trying to prove. Certainly the retinal cells themselves don’t form causal relationships, there’s a mental state in…
Benjamin Riley: A little more on this here, if you’re curious: buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/humans-und...
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Primary source buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 20d ago
Plato as AI skeptic philosophy essay

Plato was an AI skeptic

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Benjamin Riley
“The idea that Plato was against writing is based on a major misreading of his argument in the Phaedrus. Plato was a writer! We only know about his ideas because he wrote them down! buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/plato-was-...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Benjamin Riley

“The idea that Plato was against writing is based on a major misreading of his argument in the Phaedrus. Plato was a writer! We only know about his ideas because he wrote them down! buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/plato-was-...”

Primary source buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 21 posts · 16d ago
Hagen Blix Benjamin Riley Anthony Moser
Matches Building & implementation
“AI is the use of commensurability for the production of its opposite, incommensurability” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: .. something that we construct in each other. Much of it is about mutual legibility. Now, for the first time, we have machines that go off the deep end with you, that create a sense of legibility t…
Hagen Blix: Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be
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