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Established AI research Development 5d ago
Penn professor arrested blocking delivery robots

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it

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Hypervisible Shannon Mattern Tim Carmody Frank Pasquale Karen Gregory lokman tsui Chris Marsden mathewiantorno.com

“@tressiemcphd.bsky.social some local news relevant to your interests. See also her professional/professorial credentials www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...”

“Marvin “plans to contest the charge on the grounds of her First Amendment right to protest” www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...”

Primary source phillyvoice.com ↗
Established AI business Development 3d ago

Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

4 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Kashmir Hill Anuj Gupta Jeff Sharlet Chris Marsden

“How AI causes job loss: 1. Semafor highlights AI use in Dartmouth prof's oped. www.semafor.com/article/08/2... 2. Student journos find other examples. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026... 3. School reviews prof's Claude logs and he resigns: www.insidehigher…”

“The use of Pangram for witch hunting of writers continues: www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...”

Primary source thedartmouth.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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AI social technology framework essay

AI as Social Technology

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Justin Hendrix Henry Farrell Eli Sennesh Karen Gregory Carlos Scheidegger Chris Marsden

“14. Christensen suggests we are working to "increase the AI hype." Here's just one of many, _many_ examples of how we have been doing just that. Or, perhaps, not _quite_ just that. knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...”

“yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.”

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ae: high modernism is actually what america needs right now
ae: note that this does not include "pseudo-religious beliefs about magical rainbows forever if we birth the Machine God"
ae: it means
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Primary source knightcolumbia.org ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Albanese government warned it is ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI

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Chris Marsden

“#Robodebt 2.0 very deliberate indeed by government, disgrace "IAT has been found to be routinely under-assessing people’s needs and package entitlements, with aged care assessors banned by the government from overriding incorrect algorithmic decisions" #mal…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI business Analysis 4d ago
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Doctorow internet privacy essay

Pluralistic: The internet was made for privacy (31 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) Chris Marsden

“, "Not only are digital tools pretty dang good at helping you protect your privacy, but a society-wide abolition of privacy sets us up for infinite harms long into the future": pluralistic.net/2025/10/31/l...”

Primary source pluralistic.net ↗
Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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students AI bots sway fictional election

Students use 'rage bait' and AI bots to sway fictional election

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Chris Marsden

“"Kaira is part of a competition led by researchers at the University of New South Wales, which pits teams against one another to manipulate social media to win a simulated vote" #disinformation training - hopefully completed by regulation discussion? www.ab…”

Primary source abc.net.au ↗
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4 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
Justin Hendrix Social Media Lab Alissa Cooper Chris Marsden
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Alissa Cooper: The largest search and AI companies announced that they're adopting a common way for publishers to declare their desire to opt out of having AI train on their content. But what does this really mea…
Justin Hendrix: The largest search and AI companies announced that they're adopting a common way for publishers to declare their desire to opt out of having AI train on their content. But what does this really mea…
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