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Reaction converging Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Development 12d ago
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arXiv updates AI rate limit policy

Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

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Thomas Dietterich Clément Canonne Ramon Astudillo Olivia Guest Pierre Alquier Ben Williamson Jason Moore Abdoulaye Diack +4
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“Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u... #arxiv #preprint #llms #chatbots #ai #publishing #research #science”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Clément Canonne: "We want to encourage authors to be mindful with their work, taking care that they are submitting something substantial of scholarly interest that meets arXiv's guidelines and standards." 2 submiss…
David Picard: Oh, so you just have to let your 5 postdocs and 17 PhD students submit the work of your 35 undergrads to be off the hook and keep your 80+ papers per year? Good to know!
Lana Sinapayen: Pretty sure this is targeting single authors with 12 LLM generated pdfs, not big labs that legitimately can produce more than 2 papers a month.
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Established Culture, work & education Development 4d ago
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Google AI overviews forced in classrooms

Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out

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Ben Williamson Danya Glabau

“"This seems counterproductive to what we're trying to teach.... Students need opportunities to navigate search results, examine sources, and draw their own conclusions rather than being handed anAI-generated synthesis before they've even started.” www.wired…”

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Ben Williamson: "... it should not be down to tech giants to set education policy" - great to see this in New Scientist in response to Google's efforts to make AI the default medium for knowledge access in schools…
Ben Williamson: Google has been a problematic policy actor in education for years, far pre-dating Gemini. Its education platform Classroom was already a vector for automation in education www.edweek.org/technology…
Ben Williamson: Before ChatGPT, Google had already made its plans to introduce LLMs into education well known. In 5 years it's gone from shonky demos to forcing it into schools via existing Chromebook purchases an…
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 19d ago
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GenAI organised irresponsibility essay

View of Implications and Inferences: On the Organised Irresponsibility of Generative Artificial Intelligence

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Jack Stilgoe Ben Williamson

“A new paper from me, on organised irresponsibility in AI estsjournal.org/index.php/es...”

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Jack Stilgoe: A new paper from me, on organised irresponsibility in AI estsjournal.org/index.php/es...
Jack Stilgoe: Often, it is assumed that we social scientists are interested in the IMPLICATIONS of technology. I think instead we should look at the INFERENCES of technology - not what it implies for society, bu…
Jack Stilgoe: But here's Ben Affleck for the science bit
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