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.””

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

““Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community…”

““Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/s...”

“@tressiemcphd.bsky.social some local news relevant to your interests. See also her professional/professorial credentials www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...”

“Marvin “plans to contest the charge on the grounds of her First Amendment right to protest” www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...”

“Good info to know who not to publish with if you have choices”

““We’ve been making valid business cases for years to be paid a healthy salary, and instead they spent that money on software …The average entry-level salary for New York City publishing employees at the Big Five and Scholastic was $47,583 in 2023” www.wired…”

““The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for.” www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-...”

“The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for is well understood in many corners. It is why hiring across the software industry now favors super ICs and experienced seniors over entry level hires. AI makes you more pr…”

“Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....”

“Och orkar man inte läsa en hel bok så kan man läsa även här: www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...”

“I think we’re finally getting somewhere on Explaining “AI Safety“ to regular people buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

““Their fundamental goal is to tell a story about a cool little guy having hacker adventures, and the picture presented in the incident report is exactly that.” buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

“Open-weight models “can already be freely downloaded and used to cause harm, a problem most cybersecurity pros see as solvable only by using AI to fight rogue AI.” www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...”

“It's adorable that they thought they'd need the bunkers to hide from ASI, when they'll really need the bunkers to hide from people they've pissed off. www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...”

“Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto​.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news”

“My first guest is @molly.wiki; we dig into her new Tech Influence Watch project, discuss the tidal wave of AI and crypto cash hitting the US election cycle, and the implications for democracy.”

“"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…”

““Genuine conscious experience might require something no AI system could possess for the foreseeable future – intricate biological processes, for example, that silicon chips could never replicate.” www.cambridge.org/core/element...”

“free download for 2 weeks by @eschwitz.bsky.social”

““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-...”

“The dark, dark art of my #FlanBenchmark... www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-...”