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“well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned https://t.co/ko6nLkYr3L https://t.co/JgaVpDrbaO”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Great piece that helps explain the seemingly contradictory rhetoric emanating from the closed AI model companies. I agree the #1 actionable take is to hold the companies accountable for their product’s behavior. https://t.co/WQ60O1WlDr”
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Eryk Salvaggio: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: the amount of begging the question that has infected the discourse top to bottom when new models come out is uh well it's not my favorite
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20d ago
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11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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““Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adultho…”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“The single most important thing I have done in my writing classes since 2023 is teach students how LLMs work--and to create curriculum for this that was adopted across first-year writing at Harvard. Right now we cannot assume students understand this-and it…”
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“What do students lose when they stop writing? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u... #education #writing #AI”
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Hypervisible : “Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes deca…
Hypervisible : The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text…
Hypervisible : This statement is so egregiously bad I wish the journalist included the original quote instead of paraphrasing.
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1d ago
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essay how to talk AI
11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“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…”
“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”
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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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“"An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans."”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Russia is experimenting with autonomous AI weapons that kill people without human involvement: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...”
Context & explanation
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Background, chronology and why it matters.
“The news of "Russian AI killer drones" has consumed my feed this past week. This @nytimes.com article is where it was first published. The headlines and the facts are misaligned so here is what actually happened.../1 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...”
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4d ago
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tech-forward future skepticism essay
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“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…”
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“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.”
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18d ago
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6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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““These images, which I’ve started calling subtlefakes, are not as clearly offensive, but are a lot more convincing. The concerning implication is it’s not just the tech that is advancing now, but that people who wield it maliciously are getting more sophist…”
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1d ago
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“I have posted a new draft w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social titled "AI Slop." We argue that "AI slop" isn't just slang. It's useful for distinguishing between cheap and dangerous AI output and the kinds of meaningful human authorship that strengthen our cultura…”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“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…”
system from nowhere essay
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““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-…”
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“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…”
Questions & unknowns
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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…”
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Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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joyless decadence culture essay
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““There is no pleasure or pain for an AI, no skin in the game,” the philosopher Carissa Véliz writes in her recent #book Prophecy. As a result, an AI “cannot care, and therefore cannot value”. #authors www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...”
““But whereas des Esseintes’s withdrawal is an immersion into the subtleties of sensation, Johnson’s ‘Don’t Die’ movement treats the delights of the senses as suspect, even fatal.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...”
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Pavel: Tomato and pineapple are both sweet and acidic fruit, making it theoretically possible to create a pineapple sauce that performs the same role as tomato sauce.
Abstract Tesseract: lasagna but it's penne-apple-pineapple-penne
Pavel: I promise I am researching this solely for science and not to create the most cursed pizza imaginable
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Policy & governance
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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...”
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“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…”
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“I made jokes about this on twitter years ago and now it’s actually happening www.politico.com/news/2026/08...”
“Bad content drives out good, painfully close to home edition. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...”
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8d ago
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3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Those “who own our algorithms, who own our cable news networks . . . they and their platforms are engineering our emotions so they can profit off our pain. They are selling us conflict, and they’re calling it connection.” www.ft.com/content/63e8...”
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15d ago
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4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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““When two A.I. systems interact, particularly ones powered by the same large language models, they may miss each other’s errors and eventually amplify them. They are just sharing the same blind spots” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/m...”
“www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/m... Just read an article about this”
NYT opinion never write with AI
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“As LLM text “becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...”
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“"The link between broad-based literacy and the rise of democracy is well known:…What happens when the process goes into reverse? When people lack the patience to absorb arguments…[or] the ability to contradict those arguments because they’ve never honed..th…”
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““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…””
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““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, and even who you love or where you worship.” www.politico.com…”
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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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twelve US state companion bot laws
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“Twelve states now have "companion bot" laws aimed at reducing risks, particularly for minors. Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson of DLA Piper analyze the substantive provisions and identify four overarching principles for AI providers. buff.ly/qt…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
““Washington’s law goes furthest by requiring providers to prevent chatbots from expressly representing themselves as human to any user, whereas this requirement exists in several other states only for minor users.” techpolicy.press/what-12-stat...”
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“"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”
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AI not replacing software engineers essay
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“And a few examples of my public writing on AI's impacts on institutions and professions: - Legal services: www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-wont-au... - Software engineering: www.normaltech.ai/p/why-ai-has... - Science: www.normaltech.ai/p/could-ai-s...”
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““We can think of many kinds of knowledge work, including software development, as a “decide-execute-deliver sandwich”. AI compresses the “execute” layer…but the other two layers resist automation in a way that will not be overcome by capability improvements…”
