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AI classroom youth harm essay
13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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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
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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…”
models don't go rogue essay
8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
3 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”
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Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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students reject Gen AI conscientious objectors
9 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
2 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think edu…”
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Iris van Rooij: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
Iris van Rooij: “(...) they wanted to work together across their human differences to negotiate new ideas and find ways of expressing them. And they didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to generative AI. Th…
Olivia Guest: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
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5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“The companion paper contains a version of the (dis)proof in the level of detail expected by the mathematical community, and some of the mathematicians whose comments are included there have the expertise to vouch for its correctness. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c2…”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“It's really impressive that an AI system has provided a proof for it. For more on the significance of the result and some interpretation of the proof technique, check out the companion article. cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085... 10/n,n=10”
8 experts discussed this · 47 posts
Colin: I hate that today’s most prominent AI skeptics keep forcing me to argue against them. I yearn to join them in the fight against the booster zealots, wherein there is still plenty of room for legiti…
Colin: The questions available to a skeptic today are kind of esoteric, like “how much should we as a society be willing to pay for theorems”
Ben Recht: The way forward is through the mushy middle. This technology is amazing. It works and breaks in surprising ways. The main boosters are lunatics. And the loudest critics are detached from reality. F…
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tech-forward future skepticism essay
7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Policy & governance
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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
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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
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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.”
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17d ago
6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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4 communities
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Research & technical analysis
2 experts
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Paper from the essay. Also slides teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid... arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753”
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“FWIW, here are Terence Tao’s slides at the ICM on maths and AI: teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid... @teorth.bsky.social (I am not endorsing nor criticizing the content, but this is a useful and thoughtful set of points and views in the discussion, from someone…”
Alpha School AI Chicago launch
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“The most Betteridge’s Law headline to ever do it”
“Oh so you really know jack shit about kids, pedagogy, education… www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...”
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Hypervisible : Oh so you really know jack shit about kids, pedagogy, education… www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...
Hypervisible : This is so offensive I’m kinda speechless.
Hypervisible : Now Carl will tell us how schools are like McDonald’s 🤦🏿♂️
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Verge essay language versus intelligence AI
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Went searching for our piece on this and well (That piece: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...)”
“Dr. Gopnik can certainly speak for herself, but it is indeed #3 that led me to chime in here, social media providing a forum for debate and all. And, well, once again I can only recur to the established scientific fact that language is not the same as thoug…”
4 experts discussed this · 28 posts
Ian Bogost: I continue to be startled by the "writing is thinking" thing ("popular" among the anti-AI set). Is it, perhaps, a weird perversion of all the Derrida people read for decades? The pure-presence erro…
Ian Bogost: Writing isn't thinking, but rather writing. It's a type of representation that renders ideas into inscription. As a supposed writer, I am HORRIFIED at the idea that I would need to write to think. …
Robin Z: I'm surprised to hear this! My version of writing-is-thinking comes via Merleau-Ponty, but the idea that you compose the thoughts in advance mentally and just print them out in text strikes me as e…
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AI writing adulteration
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““For something to be adulterated, it has to be pure to begin with. The internal work in progress of an LLM is anything but pure. [Much] about a model… is opaque to the user, such that the only way to assess its correctness is by judging the output.” bitspli…”
“The whole Anthropic AI Watermarking Controversy is delighting me as people rediscover the idea that writing is a tool that humans use to communicate our thoughts. We are not probabilistic next-token generators with adjustable (and watermarkable) weights. Go…”
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6d ago
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“Last year, Alpha School opened a new "campus" in NYC with...22 kids. That's it. This year, they'll be expanding to a whopping 160. This is smaller than a single grade at your average public high school in New York. Alpha School runs microschools, essentiall…”
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10d ago
4 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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“I wrote in this essay that "it's not just putting lipstic on a pig, it's smearing them with Revlon from tail to snout," and was accused of using AI. I didn't. But I see why someone might think so. But also, false accusations are just horrible, I feel mildly…”
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Benjamin Riley: "Kids are told AI is 'inevitable' and acting accordingly. This is harming their cognitive development and foreclosing their life opportunities. Generative AI is cognitive cancer and we are doing ne…
Benjamin Riley: @hetanshah.bsky.social essay as promised!
Mary Branscombe: people will seize on the chart that leaves out the actual salient factor (time spent on homework) if it suits their priors
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Sal Khan Khanmigo chatbot limits essay
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“Here you might say, "maybe Alpha School using AI will do better than Gates and Zuckerberg." Yet already people with a long history of hyping ed-tech and AI to the max are coming to grips with the enduring reality that humans prefer learning from humans. www…”
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“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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14d ago
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“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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13d ago
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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“Maybe? This is a very different business ecosystem than we typically see in technology. Almost the opposite of normal, in fact. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...”
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Colin: The thing is, this was true, and then those very improvements occurred. “AI cannot be profitable unless it gets significantly better than it is today” was at one time a correct take. At that time i…
Colin: It doesn’t mean that every booster prediction is going to come true or that the net effect on society is good or that there is not some amount of overinvestment but it does mean that nowadays you c…
Benjamin Riley: Maybe? This is a very different business ecosystem than we typically see in technology. Almost the opposite of normal, in fact. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
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17d ago
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Plato as AI skeptic philosophy essay
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“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-...”
