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Concern & critique Markets & investment
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Multiple readings CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Development 10h ago
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AI companies destroy rare books training

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Ida Momennejad Juan Diego Rodriguez Dan Hon

““It was a pleasure to burn.” - Fahrenheit 451 futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“The thing you have to remember about the introdus process is that it's destructive futurism.com/artificial-i...”

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Established AI research Development 10d ago
AI advice cuts accuracy boosts overconfidence

AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Olivia Guest Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dan Hon René Walter Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈

“AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident: "Some participants who would have answered correctly on their own asked the AI and became wrong." Superpersuasion by dull tone has punch. I still suspect this is the same psych mechanis…”

““It is not just that people trust wrong #AI answers. It is that the mere availability of AI suppresses the cognitive habit of recognising what you do not know.” #GenAI #LLMs thenextweb.com/news/ai-advi...”

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Established Policy & governance Resource 17d ago
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Cambridge AI policy programme

CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Peter Henderson Sean O hEigeartaigh Dan Hon Stephen Turner Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Jed Brown
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Deeply concerning report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy: "...both factions of Boko Haram use frontier AI, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek, to assist in combat and day-to-day operations." casp.ac/reports/ai…”

Markets & investment

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Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“This is wild, but really great investigative journalism. I guess all the jailbreaking papers trying to prevent "How do I build a bomb?" queries have been vindicated... So much for it being an unrealistic scenario... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u... casp.ac/r…”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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funding the web essay

Funding The Web: A Wise Choice

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Luke Stark Ronen Tamari Robin Berjon Dan Hon

“A small fine is a start, but saving the web and our information environment requires more ambitious approaches. We have the means, with the DMA as it exists, to be far more strategic in shaping a livable technological future. One such strategy, that also he…”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: What would be cool is if Google bought back 2001-era search. Mind boggling speed and performance, no promo BS. They could even call it something stupid like Raw Dog so Joe Rogan and the people who …
Rachel Coldicutt: Not sure I'm prepared to crank it back to Alta Vista just yet but why not
Rachel Coldicutt: I was working at a start-up 1999/2000 and I remember coming into work one day and everyone was like LOOK AT THIS!!
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New Culture, work & education Signal 21h ago

network alignment chart

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Dan Hon

“I'm Chaotic Discourse on the network alignment chart 🧭 my polar opposite: @grammargirl.bsky.social (Lawful Locked-In). plot your own network → bisks.net/alignment-ch...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Dan Hon: I'm Chaotic Discourse on the network alignment chart 🧭 my polar opposite: @grammargirl.bsky.social (Lawful Locked-In). plot your own network → bisks.net/alignment-ch...
Pavel: Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
Pavel: Interesting that my network is completely goonless
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
Dan Hon newsletter s21e13

s21e13: The Irritating Aspect of Spiciness; Improving Pharmacies Somewhat

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Dan Hon

“New newsletter! newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e... In which I write about the spicy autocomplete statistical bag of tricks, and a short rant about how I just want to know how long I have to wait at the pharmacy and why finding out would be terrible.”

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5 experts · 29 posts · 19d ago
Alex Hanna Damien Williams VE, cybersocial occult investigator Dan Hon Danya Glabau
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I wonder if it would be crazy of me to consider doing a sociology PhD
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The problem is, I should also simultaneously be doing an information science PhD and a religious studies PhD, because the thing I’m interested in is the sociology of collective information behavior…
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3 experts · 20 posts · 17d ago
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 Dan Hon Amy Hoy
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Dan Hon: Something about the number of flops and cost required for someone to use a computer to program a database for their recipes in the kitchen in the early 80s/late 70s compared to getting Claude to on…
Dan Hon: It'd be interesting to map all the personal software people are agentic coding against all the ads from the 70s and 80s of what you'd use a computer for
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