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Established AI field signal Resource 6d ago
⚡ 215 h early
America.gov US government resource

America.gov

25 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

25 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“America.gov does not do pronouns. Any pronouns. (Courtesy of my daughter!) aifails.substack.com/p/pronouns”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Jessica Ji weighed in on the new #AI-powered https://t.co/sEHIhq7mvb website for @USATODAY, saying that it can be a useful resource for people trying to navigate U.S. government websites. She also notes its risks: “When this kind of AI system is empowered t…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The chatbot comes as an expansion of the Office of Personnel Management’s work to modernize access to public federal workforce data. Integration with America.gov is planned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SUx... Read more by @madialder.bsky.social: fedscoop.com/o…”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Julian Sanchez: Ok wow. This is both extensive and deeply surreal. Tell America.gov to Play Minecraft.
Julian Sanchez: Amusingly, the chatbot appears to be unable to recognize that it said anything weird. It “thinks” it just responded that it can’t play minecraft.
Justin Hendrix: Weird
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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago

Marissa mayer ai assistants women

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Established AI business Development 6d ago
⚡ 3 h early
Altman opposes personal home AI models

OpenAI CEO says it

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Questions & unknowns

2 experts

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Sam's latest dumb comments were made on Cheeky Pint, a YouTube channel by Stripe co-founder John Collison one of an endless array of tech bro safe-spaces intended to supplant actual journalists asking actual questions of powerful people”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

““OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization” Substitute "RAM" for "money" and you have modern capitalism in a nutshell”

New AI field signal Signal 2h ago
⚡ 4 h early

Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Established AI field signal Analysis 20d ago
AI chatbots harm teen learning Canada

The release of AI chatbots has harmed teens’ learning and Canada needs to act

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“This is a great list of dark patterns that chatbot makers need to stop using, not only for teens but generally. Great article @edtechprof.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-release-...”

Established AI field signal Development 8d ago
⚡ 7 h early
AI chatbots refuse 2020 election answer

Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Yeah I was also able to bully it into accepting reality and it seems like they fixed it while I was in the process of writing this, but it's hard to think this kind of stuff is an accident given how long it's been an issue”

“i mention that because of the following: www.wired.com/story/google...”

Established AI business Development 8d ago
Altman criticizes Gen Z on AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares his ‘chronic disappointment’ in Gen Z—they’re stuck on what ‘was cool five years ago,’ instead of embracing AI | Fortune

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“he genuinely never shuts the fuck up”

2 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Karl Bode: CEO Said A Thing!
Karl Bode: additional CEOs also said things! Journalisms!
Karl Bode: pure sociopath, really
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Established AI field signal Development 8d ago
Google AI search election refused

Google AI Search Refuses To Say Who Won The 2020 Election

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“The best possible interpretation is that a company with 190,820 employees and a $4.40 trillion market cap refuses to do basic quality control. But the more likely answer is that feckless Google executives have enthusiastically embraced corruption-fueled fas…”

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2 experts · 3 posts · 21h ago
Ed Zitron: A mystery seller, per Bloomberg, is trying to dump $500m in data center loans, including ones being CyrusOne (Google), Vantage Data Centers and OpenAI and Oracle’s Stargate: New Mexico.
Karl Bode: it's just me, ed
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