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Developing AI business Analysis 1d ago
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Doctorow kids surveillance paradox essay

Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Rather than legally requiring platforms to spy on kids (to exclude them from being targeted by platforms' algorithms), we could prohibit platforms from spying on *anyone*, including kids, meaning kids couldn't be identified (much less targeted) by algorithm…”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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essay how to talk AI

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Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Luke Stark Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Dr J. Rosenbaum +1

“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.”

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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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2 experts · 12 posts · 5d ago
Andrew Selbst Jeffrey Vagle
Jeffrey Vagle: Putting together syllabus and materials for this fall's AI Law & Policy course, and the first two classes will be introducing the (very) basic math behind ML models, and I'm trying to find a way to…
Jeffrey Vagle: Similarly, re stochastic gradient descent, discussion of slopes and derivatives (or god forbid, partial derivatives).
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2 experts · 4 posts · 5d ago
James Grimmelmann Jeffrey Vagle
James Grimmelmann: TBH, I suspect student or RA work rather than AI. The 2000 cutoff doesn’t track; if anything AI is better at working with more recent work that is more pervasively online.
James Grimmelmann: If it's AI, a problem like that is more likely to be the result of dumb prompting than clever prompting to avoid detection.
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