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Multiple readings The System From Nowhere Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Analysis 22h ago
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essay how to talk AI

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

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

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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Developing Compute & infrastructure Analysis 2d ago
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system from nowhere essay

The System From Nowhere

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Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“The System From Nowhere is a media problem: What (the system) is optimized to do; what training data shapes it; what counts as a valid response: these are mechanisms put in place by human decisions. Good reporting on AI would discuss them. Instead, they “no…”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…”

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Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
McSweeney's AI book scanning satire

I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform

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Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

““One minute, they are a treasured record of human thought. The next, they are twelve searchable megabytes and a manageable quantity of mixed paper strips going into one of several large, welcoming bins marked DESTROY.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...”

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AI interest story media anatomy essay

Anatomy of an AI Interest Story · Joe Bak-Coleman

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Eryk Salvaggio Joe Bak-Coleman Jeffrey Vagle

“I couldn't help but write a blog post about these AI-Interest stories that seem to be cropping up everywhere. joebakcoleman.com/blog/2026-09...”

““We’re being distracted by a cutesy little AI* story and asked not to think too deeply about the bullshit beneath it all.” joebakcoleman.com/blog/2026-09...”

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Established Policy & governance Analysis 6d ago
Stanford Law AI policing agnotology essay

AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability | Stanford Law Review

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Jeffrey Vagle

“My recent essay, AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability, was just published by the Stanford Law Review Online. www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/ai-ag...”

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