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Developing Evaluation & benchmarks Development 1d ago
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Meta tests AI bedtime story

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination | TechCrunch

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“Meta still undefeated in its mission to be the most misanthropic company in human history. ht: @aicaution.ca”

Established Agents & robotics Development 5d ago
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Rural NY school humanoid robot teacher

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”

“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”

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Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

9 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
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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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

journals.sagepub.com

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“🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The articl…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
Anti-AI sentiment 2026 essay

Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“"I’ve struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity." Hating AI in 2026”

“"AI users seem untroubled by—or unaware of—the dissonance, because the richest individuals and corporations have decided that the future must be built on this specific approach to this specific technology that they own." www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-...”

Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

tandfonline.com

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“"This review shows how diverse actors are resisting algorithms, [automated decision-making], and AI in everyday life contexts—and that such resistance is possible across diverse geopolitical and cultural contexts and in relation to various sociotechnical sy…”

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2 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
Jane Rosenzweig: "You don't need to experience anything that might give you joy or unexpectedly make your child laugh" but there is still no AI that will do the laundry for you while you tell your kids a story.
Charles Logan: As we all know, writing is for losers and nobody’s achieving unicorn status with something as humdrum as solving a centuries-long gendered labor issue like laundry, so better to turn over your imag…
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