The Who's Who of AI

“And also: Ray, I. & Guest, O. (2026). Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

“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.…”

“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”

“I think these might be helpful! Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”

“"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettc…”

“"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's got…”

“Not to put too fine a point on it but remember in Jan 2025 when the AMS was like JMM will have a theme for the first time ever and the theme is AI, yay, ps the program has no decision of ethical concerns etc? www.ams.org/about-us/ai-...”

“The case for boycotting Generative AI: https://t.co/jse1naVrFi https://t.co/z1luGzPSE0”

“Sure, Gary, so why doesn't this essay mention liability? Instead of impotent theories of change, lead with "AI systems should be presumed 'ultrahazardous' and thus subject to strict liability". This is a versatile and powerful framework. garymarcus.substack…”

“This is a law scholarship analogue of Wikipedia's presumptive removal policy. It's a rational response to LLMs and the bullshit asymmetry principle. An expectation to read and evaluate all the slop on a topic is a denial of service attack on advancement of …”

“So good! I hosted an on-campus screening in the spring (about 60 people) and many stayed for almost 2 hours of discussion afterward. I'm excited for it to be out on PBS on Monday.”

“Yeah, joint liability is something that was taken out of the Colorado bill, and I testified for restoring it. "We should expect that both developer and deployer will maximally exploit the ambiguities in this space between marketing and terms of use." My com…”

“It's an arms race and we have to find a way to not play. "After humanization, more than 96% of AI-labeled rewrites evade Pangram and GPTZero."”

“There is no "persona". "we identified critical failure modes often hidden by traditional benchmarks: a “Safety Tax” where anti-hallucination prompts induce over-refusal, and “Distributional Collapse” where performance degrades based solely on information di…”

“My interpretation is that OpenAI embraced the xrisk/pause narrative as an opportunistic excuse to avoid acknowledging that they do not have the finances/fundamentals to IPO.”

“This is right: booster and doomer are the same ideology, have co-signed each others' gambling debt, and cannot abide liability. Read the TESCREAL paper and order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app's book. David Gerard is another astute observer of the EA/doomer cult…”

“The actual exploits are not nearly so fancy. And what is needed is mostly boring old-fashioned infrastructure resilience.”