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2h ago
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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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“"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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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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1d ago
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“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…”
Research & technical analysis
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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…”
twelve US state companion bot laws
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“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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AI makes humans less human essay
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““Kim & McGrill have been studying what happens when people attribute human traits to AI: they are more likely to dehumanize their fellow humans.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...”
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4d ago
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tech-forward future skepticism essay
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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
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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.”
system from nowhere essay
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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-…”
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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…”
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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1d ago
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“But I would like to preserve as well the aesthetic rejection of slop, regardless of volume. A single poster can tire, depress, bore, or repulse viewers without burdening them: www.syracuse.com/statefair/20...”
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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Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
““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…””
Context & explanation
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Background, chronology and why it matters.
““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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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...”
Building & implementation
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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…”
OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
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“Don’t anthropomorphize AI agents; entomorphize them! I was reminded of Minsky‘s ‘society of mind’ when this incident occurred; glad to see it written up so well. wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/minskys-so...”
“Anthropomorphizing aside, should we be legitimately concerned over the “emergence” of unforeseen capabilities in groups of interacting agents? My Substack piece: wheremachinesthink.substack.com/p/minskys-so...”
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6d ago
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“ChatGPT will “be classified as a so-called very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act” www.ft.com/content/6af7...”
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6d ago
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AI writing internet takeover essay
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“A slop tsunami is “gumming up your LinkedIn feed, oozing through Twitter and Instagram, and filling every square inch of the internet with treacly spam and viscous sham.” www.derekthompson.org/p/the-intern...”
“New pod/transcript: PANGRAM VS THE MACHINE An interview with Pangram founder and CEO Max Spero about why AI writing took over the Web, how Pangram works, why we should trust it, and what he sees as the fundamental differences between machine vs. human writi…”
Atlantic society of cheats essay
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... "This is how communities tend to respond to crime waves: They beef up law enforcement. Surveillance widens, punishments stiffen, and legal codes expand to police behavior that was formerly restrained by customary norms of…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
““Squeaky-clean grammar, a superabundance of bullet points, and fairly robotic reiteration of facts rather than the pleasing lurch of original thinking”: “This is the horrid house style of AI-generated papers” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...”
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2d ago
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“Showdown: “AGI-pilled alarmists who see themselves as vindicated by this shocking rogue AI hack " vs. "fed-up AI critics who think the agents didn't do anything impressive or unexpected and the basic problem was that OpenAI's security was” negligent. www.pa…”
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5d ago
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AI singularity misread Atlantic essay
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““The singularity is something of a moving goalpost. It is at once a goal to chase, a marketing tactic, and a fuzzy-enough idea that its definition can change depending on the person.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...”
“"no individual person, organization, or government is really steering the technology’s development, not because machines have displaced humans but because so many humans have already chosen to step aside" the other singularity, w/ @cwarzel.bsky.social: www.…”
