The Who's Who of AI

“And every time I pause to look back at that, it seems like the hype has gotten bigger, more extensive, and more insidious. This week, I am seeing credulous media coverage of Anthropic consulting with religious thinkers to try to work out how to "grow" Claud…”

“Gift Link: “It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person.””

“One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussi…”

“AI companies are calling for regulation in ways that let them set the rules, not independent parties who can hold them to account. “If you read between the lines, everything [Amodei] advocates [for] is something that would help companies like Anthropic,” sa…”

“The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as more of an alignment problem rather than an oversigh…”

“I built an AI Community Notewriter. And here's why I think X's Community Notes is going to fail when election rumors about "rigged machines" and "illegal voters" start flying. agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/i-built-an...”

“Really interesting hands-on digging from @noupside.bsky.social on some ways Notes has gone sideways on X: agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/i-built-an...”

“"No one understands" You say a whole bunch of things like they are facts. Which they are not. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean "no one understands." www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...”

“Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techp…”

“The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!”

“It’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less detectable (such as, paradoxically, the text becoming less convincing?). Only skimmed this for now, but seems interesting. …”

“"The villagers are confronting a standard order of operations: the system arrives first, the problem is expected to arrange itself around the system, and the knowledge needed to define both is settled in another hemisphere." dair-institute.org/blog/whose-c...”

“"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced …”

“I was quoted in this piece, so I thought I'd share the bits that weren't included: What I see here is language models doing what language models do: reading and writing. Wikis are prime targets for agents, which are foremost writing machines.”

“BlueSky world, I'm looking for: -- US-based creatives (illustrators, film, art, but *not just writing*) -- Who radically oppose AI intrusion into education & schools -- And have created something(s) demonstrating their resistance Is that you? Know someone? …”

“🚨🚨🚨Publication alert: We can't really tell what is real and what is AI. Our just published study shows that most people struggle to detect AI-generated images. We are approximately as good as ... chance... @madshovethy.bsky.social led a team effort ⬇️ #Open…”