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Established Culture, work & education Signal 9d ago
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Economists ai threat jobs

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Olivia Guest Rachel Coldicutt Karl Bode Eileen Clancy 🧿 Paul Hünermund

“Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...”

“I'm sure these 200 economists are all clearly calling out how autocratic corruption is dismantling regulatory autonomy, undermining any effort to protect labor or consumers before it even begins, right?”

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Rachel Coldicutt: Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.co…
Rachel Coldicutt: Yet again, I have cause to tap the sign hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...
Hagen Blix: Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to he…
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 4d ago

Openai head of strategic futures says openweight

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Christopher Mims Karl Bode

“apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...”

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Christopher Mims: There is a civil war happening in tech over Chinese / free to use / open weights AI? At least on X. I realize no one else cares, but this is my World Cup. tl;dr a former Trump official joined OpenA…
Christopher Mims: apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...
Christopher Mims: "let them fight" always gets my antennae twitching
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Primary source reddit.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
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AI hype reckoning essay

The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us

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joao Karl Bode Michiel van de Panne Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

“we are quickly approaching the pinnacle of AI bullshit mountain”

2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Karl Bode: the final reckoning between AI hype and reality is upon us. buckle up.
Karl Bode: I'm fascinated by this dual reality of people happily vibe coding and then the reality of most AI implementation at scale which has just been a profound anti-labor mess and environmental catastroph…
Karl Bode: I'm curious what on device overseas cheap alternatives do to the mess, and tech industry bottom lines
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Primary source karlbode.com ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Development 9d ago
Grok Build sends repos to cloud

SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage

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Karl Bode

“we pinky swear we will delete the data we hoovered up in a country too corrupt to pass or enforce privacy laws whose regulators have been disemboweled 😇🥸”

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Karl Bode: we pinky swear we will delete the data we hoovered up in a country too corrupt to pass or enforce privacy laws whose regulators have been disemboweled 😇🥸
Karl Bode: the normalized presumption is there are still agencies left that would press musk corp over any of this
Karl Bode: those same lawyers know they just convinced the courts to make regulatory accountability illegal
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Primary source theverge.com ↗ theregister.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Analysis 13d ago
AI artifice authenticity discourse essay

AI, Artifice, And Authenticity

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Ronen Tamari Karl Bode

“musings inspired by this piece excellent piece by @karlbode.com karlbode.com/ai-artifice-...”

“I really want to believe that this era of mass produced AI engagement slop ushers forth a renaissance for authentic expertise, but I've seen what you people buy at the grocery store”

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Ronen Tamari: the term "artificial intelligence" is actually way more on the nose than its creators could have imagined
Ronen Tamari: musings inspired by this piece excellent piece by @karlbode.com karlbode.com/ai-artifice-...
Karl Bode: 👍I was obsessed with this country's love of artifice even before AI came to town. Now it's just off the rails
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