The Who's Who of AI

“All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend do…”

““Alongside valid privacy concerns, there is a persistent inequity in how facial recognition is deployed: it’s disproportionately used to manage vulnerable populations like migrants and refugees.””

““The aim is to deliver an instant verdict on whether a voice is AI-generated during calls, in voice messages, and in other audio, without the audio ever leaving the device.””

“It probably isn't a bad idea to set a verbal password with your older parents and grandparents, just so they know if is actually you: After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action”

“Seems like a “my bad” isn’t really sufficient here.”

“Would say “too late” but the fact that these systems are not ready for prime time has stopped exactly no business from integrating them.”

“It’s easy enough to have a laugh about this but the stakes here are minimal, which will not always be the case. Also, the way this can be used to scale harassment campaigns and other anti social behaviors hasn’t even begun to take shape.”

“mere moments ago the nytimes published this article which heavily features Muse's ability to make calls, lol: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...”

“Perhaps the greatest understatement in the history of understatements. Brilliant parody, or misplaced earnestness? I have no idea, but it’s amazing! “Agents require a level of trust that many people may be uncomfortable with, especially with a company, like…”

““Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.…”

“An AI house with a *dark side*? Well, I never! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...”

“To the sociology PhD student who is inevitably doing their ethnography embedded in this insane community: I really look forward to reading your future book.”

“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.”

“Well, not everywhere in the media: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...”

“It’s so interesting how the doomers and investors are so scared of how fast Ai Is going but don’t want to talk to actual cyber security experts ( a constant feature of abusive systems is narrative control via isolation.) www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...”

““So I think one of the reasons the entire tech industry is so eager to fit these passive surveillance devices into the same kind of mental framework as smartphones is so that no one has to question whether there should be a new social etiquette for these de…”

““People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can pick up and talk to throughout the day.” 🙄”

“So while governments (and the AI companies themselves) around the world are freaking out about misaligned agent swarms, Meta is making agents available to everyone in cute Tamagochi form??”

“Part of their problem will continue to be that OpenAI is trying to convince people that they need a layer of (wonky) enterprise software between them and things like raising kids, cultivating relationships, and exploring hobbies.”

““This is the logical extension of what they say is algorithms that know you better than you know yourself, but they call it A.I.””