The Who's Who of AI

“Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...”

““As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.”

““Several companies’ chatbots have been found to use guilt and Fomo 37% of the time when users imply they are about to end a conversation. And the market’s co-opting of our most uncomfortable human feelings doesn’t stop there.” www.theguardian.com/commentisf…”

“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”

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

““We’re not far from the day when one state’s autonomous weapons will be capable of shooting at its adversary’s autonomous weapons. And once that possibility exists, there is a very real risk that it could happen by mistake, or by misunderstanding.” www.nyti…”

““Duguid was inundated with messages from people sharing their anger about automated AI-driven recruitment processes that they believe screen out older candidates. Following their advice, Duguid’s “newly botoxed CV” no longer displays her age” www.ft.com/con…”

““The nurses described a workplace where software tracks call length, predicts daily productivity, and, for a stretch last year, used artificial intelligence to grade the empathy and tone in their voices.””

“A nurse “described cutting short a call with an elderly woman who had just received a terminal cancer diagnosis. The nurse said the woman …needed someone to talk to. The nurse held back from offering comfort because she feared it would hurt her monthly scor…”

“Chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-the-largest-open-source-model-ever-rivaling-top-u-s-systems venturebeat.com/technology/chi… #AI #Kimi #OpenSource”

““For much of the past three years, open-source models have typically trailed their proprietary counterparts by a meaningful margin. Kimi K3 appears to have closed that gap almost entirely.” venturebeat.com/technology/c...”

“Sorry to post about philosophy, but as a panexperientialist who has spent 15 years failing to get that idea to catch on, both (pan)psychism and (pan)vitalism were bad ideas that are seductive because we humans are self-centered and like to think of ourselve…”

“Critiques of generative AI “highlight four sets of harms to the art community—reputational damage, economic loss, plagiarism, and copyright infringement—and recommend regulations addressing consent, disclosure, and watermarked products.” dl.acm.org/doi/10.1…”

““Their main concerns are that these AI companions, AI chat bots that people form emotional relationships to, are going to have all kinds of potentially negative social impacts and that people are going to get addicted.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...”

““The group plans to release its second-generation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) software in Europe from 2027 pending regulatory approval, which would directly compete with Tesla’s FSD system. Its self-designed Turing chips are also used in VW’s new models in…”

““AI is also a threat to India’s IT services growth engine. The “global capability centres” — hubs that were key to the sector’s growth — specialise in activities like data analysis that can be done by AI. Share prices of Indian IT companies have dropped sha…”

““Where optimistic accounts treat generative AI as an extension of prior media revolutions (photography, cinema, etc.) this framework insists that the Inversion represents a categorical break: not a new tool for human expression but a restructuring” www.usef…”

““Recently, she tried to train Claude to help with meal planning for her family of three, but gave up after a couple of months. “It would leave crucial ingredients out, it would get the proportions totally wrong, it would suggest the same five things over an…”

““Middle-range theories are closer to the world and thus can evolve as our understanding of the world evolves. Grand theories attempt to explain everything and are therefore too static. For Merton, they were too out of touch with reality.” www.cambridge.org/…”