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What credible people across AI noticed, why it matters, and where the field is converging or disagreeing.
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2 directory members surfaced this signal.
“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...”
8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…”
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“The System From Nowhere is a media problem: What (the system) is optimized to do; what training data shapes it; what counts as a valid response: these are mechanisms put in place by human decisions. Good reporting on AI would discuss them. Instead, they “no…”
What remains unresolved or contested.
“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…”
7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubbl…”
How teams are shipping and applying it.
“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…”
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.”
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“Cannot wait for you all to hear my conversation with @cyborggoddess.bsky.social on the next The Data Fix!! We talk about the ELIZA effect, AI psychosis, AAI, intimacy, friction, and so much more -- subscribe so you don't miss it: thedatafix.net”
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”
5 directory members surfaced this signal.
Rules, institutions and accountability.
““$130 billion in projects were delayed or canceled just in the first quarter of this year… 500 jurisdictions have passed bans or moratoriums, including 150 local bans passed in July alone.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...”
How teams are shipping and applying it.
“One way of reading the data center backlash "is as a many-headed protest against inevitability — about not just the technology itself but also the whole package of breakneck build-out, social disruption and insane wealth creation," writes @dwallacewells.bsk…”
5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“One of them is RLVR, which I’ve written about here as clearly as I could, albeit in a different context: mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...”
“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
“Thennal DK, Hans Ole Hatzel Do Large Language Models Always Tell The Same Stories? https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17350”
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“I couldn't help but write a blog post about these AI-Interest stories that seem to be cropping up everywhere. joebakcoleman.com/blog/2026-09...”
““We’re being distracted by a cutesy little AI* story and asked not to think too deeply about the bullshit beneath it all.” joebakcoleman.com/blog/2026-09...”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
“I've got another newly published essay! This article addresses the automatic assembly of context in chatbots--what is known as "memory" for these applications--and how this manufactures the appearance of continuity and personality, while constructing user p…”
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
“Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...”
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4 directory members surfaced this signal.
“"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 …”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
“Not surprising, but this study suggests LLMs & LDMs actually produce *less* than the variety present in their training data: “across different model scales, sequence lengths, and decoding strategies.” arxiv.org/abs/2609.02275”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.