The Who's Who of AI

“Interesting approach to AI slop!: "We propose a provisional definition of slop as any output of a probabilistic automated system produced with little exertion that asymmetrically burdens recipients and tends to degrade cultural domains." papers.ssrn.com/sol…” evidence ↗

“I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...” evidence ↗

““Benchmarks, he writes, are “the mistake that made machine learning.” Notably, he argues, instead of creating a replicability crisis, they drove legitimate progress anyway — “mostly by sheer luck,” in his view” www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-...” evidence ↗

“Across three pre-registered studies (n=2691), people underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on *simple* tasks. Still people use AI despite its inefficiency. arxiv.org/abs/2605.22687” evidence ↗

“The math dump’s main “purpose is to produce an effect of propaganda and stupefaction, relying on scientific illiteracy and on its uncritical amplification by the media echo chamber. To produce its propaganda effect, it erases…hundreds of researchers…” europ…” evidence ↗

“When one researcher has an agent email others for help, it may not be too annoying. But there are obvious problems with scale here, and I don't think the AI firms have thought them through. www.science.org/content/arti... At a bare minimum, the agent needs …” evidence ↗

““Data centres, chips, and energy all compensated for significant losses elsewhere in the economy. AI capex exceeded all consumer spending in the country during some financial quarters this year, papering over an economy in decline.” disjunctionsmag.com/arti…” evidence ↗

““AI is starting to transform the research process by automating the discovery of new solutions. Given a task, the typical AI-driven approach is (i) to generate a set of diverse solutions, and then (ii) to verify these solutions and select one that solves th…” evidence ↗

“I've argued this point since 2002 (in "Two Concepts of Immortality"). The machine is not a person. Erode that distinction, & fixed points of social cohesion (rights, voting, etc) come undone. See also Ch. 8 of my "New Laws of Robotics," arxiv.org/abs/2404.1…” evidence ↗

“I've argued this point since 2002 (in "Two Concepts of Immortality"). The machine is not a person. Erode that distinction, & fixed points of social cohesion (rights, voting, etc) come undone. See also Ch. 8 of my "New Laws of Robotics," arxiv.org/abs/2404.1…” evidence ↗