The Who's Who of AI

“As AI systems increasingly make or influence consequential decisions, Truepic’s Mounir Ibrahim argues the evidence informing those decisions must be “verifiably authentic.” He makes the case for image authentication as a condition of AI deployment.”

““Weizenbaum understood ELIZA’s use of the first person to be a lie and warned his colleagues against it; Turkle agrees. “Whenever a program says ‘I,’ it’s a deception,” she writes. “That is the original sin of artificial intimacy.”” www.nybooks.com/articles…”

“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.”

“@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...”

““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...”

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““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-...”

““A job’s susceptibility to AI replacement depends, in part, on how easily the clean tasks can be cleaved off from the messy ones.” www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...”

“Three very helpful, interlocking frameworks for thinking about generative AI (or any technology) and automation, from Roge Karma: www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...”

“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…”

““It was harder to find other students to pull all-nighters with to work on the notoriously hard problem sets. A few years ago, that wouldn’t have been a consideration, but now Claude or ChatGPT can spit out a fairly accurate answer in minutes.” www.bostongl…”

“"What is the point of MIT?" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/15/m...”

“After years of prompting AI chatbots, the AI agents are now prompting us… https://t.co/FDjH9fphjf https://t.co/BGMk9Ut87Q”

“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 …”

““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”

““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”

““Explanation rights have largely been formulated as sector-specific compliance obligations rather than as expressions of a broader constitutional commitment to reasoned decision-making. This siloed development of explanation rights contributes to fragmentat…”

““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…”

““AI performance may deteriorate over time. Shah et al. found that model iterations and changes in electronic record documentation could lead to performance drift, after deployment of their ChatEHR AI system.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

““AI performance may deteriorate over time. Shah et al. found that model iterations and changes in electronic record documentation could lead to performance drift, after deployment of their ChatEHR AI system.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

““AI performance may deteriorate over time. Shah et al. found that model iterations and changes in electronic record documentation could lead to performance drift, after deployment of their ChatEHR AI system.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...”