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Established Models & releases Development 13d ago
Anthropic predictive surveillance activists

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

14 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Note. how none of the "whistleblowers" are talking about the actual killing and surveillance machines they're creating 🙄 prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Hypervisible : I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Luke Stark: I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
Ingrid Burrington: I think a lot about a colleague who said to me "Dario wouldn't do that" re: some shitty thing Anthropic had in fact done, like they were personal friends (they are not)
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Established AI field signal Resource 6d ago
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AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

15 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

15 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org”

New AI field signal Analysis 8h ago
NVIDIA AI climate claims critique

NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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““NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax” https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/nvidias-ai-climate-hoax-report/ > With that in mind, we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025’s use of NVIDIA’S AI products is on par with the state-owne…”

Established Models & releases Development 20d ago
NYC mayor AI school generative moratorium

Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools - NYC Mayor's Office

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered

“They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) …”

“It is that simple.... "a new Technology in Schools Coalition, made up of students, educators, parent leaders, elected officials, advocates, union partners and experts in the field will convene to assess the impact of the moratorium and limited pilots". www.…”

Established AI research Research 7d ago
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Apple reasoning model limitations paper

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

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“@platypii @kortizart @NateSilver538 @GaryMarcus Or, you can read peer reviewed papers, but maybe, like Nate Silver, you depend on "thousands of less wrong posts" for your "evidence" 😂 That could also be why press releases are more convincing than scientific…”

Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago
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Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“A new Pew Research survey across 37 countries found that on balance, people expect AI will lead to job loss in next 20 years & people are more likely to say AI will increase rather than decrease the gap between the rich and the poor... www.pewresearch.org/g…”

Developing AI business Development 1d ago
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"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“"An April survey of 1,150 office workers found that 40 percent had encountered a phenomenon known as “workslop,” or AI-generated content that looks professional on the surface but lacks any actual substance." futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“Everyone is getting the world they wanted futurism.com/artificial-i...”

Established Models & releases Signal 15d ago
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch

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“"The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to attack." Sounds more like some mountaineers talking in basecamp…”

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5 experts · 85 posts · 7d ago
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Shriram Krishnamurthi: I'm amazed by *just how bad* Gemini can be. A Google product, operating inside a Google doc, can't create a Google doc element…and lies that it has. Also struggles to convert a very basic LaTeX fil…
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Amusingly, Gmail itself can create Google calendar entries based on the content of many messages!
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5 experts · 10 posts · 11d ago
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when t…
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…
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3 experts · 10 posts · 4d ago
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: As I was saying about Microsoft having their own in-house AI cultists. The specifically weird and salacious people at the frontier labs are far from the only new religious movement driving AI leade…
René Walter: Misleading headline though, he specifically warns about "AI systems capable of setting their own objectives, earning money and owning assets" which would "essentially seeding a new silicon species".
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