The Who's Who of AI

“On August 20, at 1 p.m. ET, the authors will join @mmitchell.bsky.social, chief ethics scientist @hf.co; and Madeleine Claire Elish, head of eval, responsible development, & innovation at Google Deepmind; to discuss their research. Learn more and RSVP! data…”

“📣 New! As AI agents are increasing used for daily tasks, their relative autonomy challenges traditional means of human oversight. Samir Passi & Ranjit Singh show why oversight can't rest on individual users alone, w specific recommendations for builders and…”

“Once AI companies have taught their models to perform a certain job, their need for more training data in that area could sharply decline. In this way, data-training start-ups are like the freelancers they employ: making $$ today, in danger of being dropped…”

“it's not like Mercor is the first to do this, but interesting that AI companies hiring experts is (finally) getting attention :: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...”

““If we don’t find a way to call this out from an education perspective, I fear that we will lose a generation of kids,” says @rweingarten.bsky.social. “The work of teaching and learning in the earliest grades should be done without AI.” www.nytimes.com/2026…”

“A lesson from the history of household tech, from the vacuum cleaner to the AI family assistant: Labor-saving technology tends to create domestic systems that are far more efficient over all, but not necessarily easier for the people doing the labor. www.ne…”

““Recently, she tried to train Claude to help with meal planning for her family of three, but gave up after a couple of months. “It would leave crucial ingredients out, it would get the proportions totally wrong, it would suggest the same five things over an…”

““No fellowship, academy or glossy public opinion campaign can repair what years of extraction and broken promises have eroded,” @jbbranch.bsky.social writes. “[T]rust, once squandered, is far harder to build than the next model update.” www.chicagotribune.c…”

“To make govt services more accessible & accountable, @baricks.bsky.social, @boston.gov’s aleja jimenez jaramillo & @megyoung0.bsky.social call on state & local govts to explore collectively-governed “in-house” alternatives to commercial language translation…”