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Multiple readings The Future Is Not Tech-Forward Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Wake up call for congress lawmakers get big brother warning on ai Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Data centers ai populism Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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New Agents & robotics Signal 11h ago

Why humanoid robots wont catch up

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
“"Humanoid robots won’t face exactly the same deployment challenges as autonomous vehicles. For example, a mistake by a humanoid robot may be less likely to kill someone. But a lot of the same bottlenecks apply to both types of robots." www.understandingai.o…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Frank Pasquale Timothy B. Lee

“"Humanoid robots won’t face exactly the same deployment challenges as autonomous vehicles. For example, a mistake by a humanoid robot may be less likely to kill someone. But a lot of the same bottlenecks apply to both types of robots." www.understandingai.o…”

“@gayestgaymer1 @sethlazar Yes, @chi_t_williams and I literally published five articles about the state of robotics (including humanoid robotics) in the last week. I suggest starting here. https://t.co/KVbCSf8UHa”

Primary source understandingai.org ↗
Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
⚡ 6 h early
essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Charles Logan
“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:” evidence ↗
11 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:”

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Primary source buttondown.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
⚡ 8 h early
tech-forward future skepticism essay

The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
“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 ↗
7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Brian Merchant Taylor Lorenz Eryk Salvaggio Ali Alkhatib Edward Ongweso Jr Frank Pasquale Benjamin Riley
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

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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…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

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…”

Research & technical analysis

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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.”

Primary source thetechbubble.info ↗
Established Policy & governance Signal 3d ago

Wake up call for congress lawmakers get big brother warning on ai

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
““Besides building troves of personal information gleaned from commercial databases, the dossiers offer advice on potential ways to blackmail, coerce or stalk the individual in question…”” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Frank Pasquale Amanda Tepski
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Frank Pasquale: “Today, anyone with access to a frontier AI model can buy your data from a broker and reconstruct an intimate picture of your life, including your location, your purchases, your browsing history, a…
Marielza: "Besides building troves of personal information gleaned from commercial databases, the dossiers offer advice on potential ways to blackmail, coerce or stalk the individual..." 😱
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Primary source politico.com ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Signal 5d ago
⚡ 43 h early

Data centers ai populism

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Data & Society
“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…” evidence ↗
5 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Data & Society Eryk Salvaggio Frank Pasquale Salomé Viljoen
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

Julian Stallabrass, Ultra-Processed Images, NLR 160, July–August 2026

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““Paglen tracks what he rightly sees as an epoch-making development, which is superficially marked by the recent inability of people to reliably distinguish machine images from those made by cameras or humans” newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...” evidence ↗
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Frank Pasquale

““Paglen tracks what he rightly sees as an epoch-making development, which is superficially marked by the recent inability of people to reliably distinguish machine images from those made by cameras or humans” newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...”

Primary source newleftreview.org ↗