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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 Live tension Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Markets & investment · 6 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 10d 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 Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Abeba Birhane, Chris Marsden
“"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...” 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...”

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“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 Safety & security Signal 20d ago
⚡ 4 h early

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · René Walter, Andrea Lathrop
“The AI-Hacking-Race is on, as if OAI/Anthropic are begging to be under gov control. While the incident is real, it's not like a "model went rogue" or anythong, it did what it was promptef to do, but incompetent redteaming fucked it up. This is from Anzhtopi…” evidence ↗
12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Grace Dare Obasanjo Vincent Conitzer Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Elie René Walter Tim Duffy +4
2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
Tim Duffy: Compared to the OpenAI one these are maybe less evidence of misalignment, since the models were wrongly given internet access.
Grace: Anthropic announces they've also had models gain unauthorized access during evaluations www.anthropic.com/news/investi...
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 4d ago
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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ed Zitron
“Here's this week's Better Offline monologue - I run through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI bubble is a series of concentration risks supported by VC and debt. www.youtube.co…” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ed Zitron Edward Ongweso Jr By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) Chris Marsden

“Here's this week's Better Offline monologue - I run through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI bubble is a series of concentration risks supported by VC and debt. www.youtube.co…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Ed Zitron: Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading…
Ed Zitron: Cal is a legend
Ed Zitron: ya several times
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Established AI business Signal 19d ago
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Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“AI is like a carny ride that triggers cardiac events in riders who never knew they had a problem because they never experienced those particular g-stresses - it's not something that *induces* vulnerability, it's something that *triggers* vulnerability: plur…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) Chris Marsden

“AI is like a carny ride that triggers cardiac events in riders who never knew they had a problem because they never experienced those particular g-stresses - it's not something that *induces* vulnerability, it's something that *triggers* vulnerability: plur…”

Primary source pluralistic.net ↗