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Multiple readings We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Building & implementation · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Student writing essays ai Building & implementation · 4 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Amazon acquires rare books AI training

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · 404 Media, Emanuel Maiberg
“We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Luke Stark Jason Koebler Andrew Selbst James Grimmelmann Emanuel Maiberg Damon Beres +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"We’re not revealing the titles of the books included in the shipment we tracked, but they are rare, meaning there are not many copies of them in circulation." I'm highly curious what the books are. I think it matters a lot, both legally and morally. www.40…”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Luke Stark: We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the proce…
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Yeah, the industry itself destroys *immense* volumes of books that don't sell.
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
⚡ 4 h early
AI classroom youth harm essay

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Neil Turkewitz
“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…” evidence ↗
13 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark Steph Wright Mél Hogan / The Data Fix tante Benjamin Riley +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago
⚡ 15 h early

Student writing essays ai

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Hypervisible , John Warner
““Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adultho…” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Luke Stark Christopher Mims Anna Mills Frank Pasquale Ben Williamson Charles Logan Jason Moore +3
2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Hypervisible : “Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes deca…
Hypervisible : The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text…
Hypervisible : This statement is so egregiously bad I wish the journalist included the original quote instead of paraphrasing.
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
⚡ 6 h early
essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

11 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Charles Logan
“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:” evidence ↗
11 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:”

“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…”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
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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Primary source buttondown.com ↗
Established Policy & governance Signal 19d ago
⚡ 2338 h early

A civic grammar for AI rights | Science

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jack Stilgoe
“"The AI Bill of Rights has become one kind of infrastructure, diffuse and informal, but generative." Bad administrations can repeal good policies, but they can't stop others building on them. Superb piece, @alondra.bsky.social” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Meredith Broussard Data & Society Joanna Bryson Luke Stark Jack Stilgoe

“"The AI Bill of Rights has become one kind of infrastructure, diffuse and informal, but generative." Bad administrations can repeal good policies, but they can't stop others building on them. Superb piece, @alondra.bsky.social”

“An expanding civic grammar for AI rights #AIBillofRights #DataCenterBillofRights www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Alondra Nelson: An expanding civic grammar for AI rights #AIBillofRights #DataCenterBillofRights www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tamara Kneese: 👀👀👀
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Primary source science.org ↗
Developing AI field signal Development 2d ago
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open letter AI academia adoption

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Luke Stark Joshua Grochow
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their na…”

2 experts discussed this · 19 posts
Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
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Primary source openletter.earth ↗
Developing Models & releases Analysis 1d ago
⚡ 13 h early
AGI illusion language models essay

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought

5 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark

“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...”

5 experts discussed this · 58 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: I find that, no matter how many ways I acknowledge LLMs etc are changing, people dismiss me as “crazy” or “unserious” because I refuse to attribute those changes to “intelligence.” I will say again…
Eryk Salvaggio: I understand that one functions as the other, but LLMs work by printing a path through a process that arrives at a completion point by tightening the tension between word salad and a legible destin…
Eryk Salvaggio: If you want to argue that this is some narrow specific *form* of intelligence, fine, but don’t scope-creep. A capacity for language production doesn’t automatically infer human-bound interpretation…
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Primary source techpolicy.press ↗
Debates gaining attention

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4 experts · 19 posts · 5d ago
Anil Dash Luke Stark Karl Bode Mary Branscombe
Matches Building & implementation
“Data center buildouts most frequently prey on small towns that are desperate due to being hollowed out by the collapse of manufacturing or other industry, and they were *already* betrayed by big bu…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Anil Dash: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
Luke Stark: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
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3 experts · 4 posts · 18d ago
Luke Stark Tim Carmody John Warner
Matches Building & implementation
“I might take the under on # of courses. The people who write to me and say they're teaching AI integrated with teaching writing aren't teaching writing anymore. They've moved on to automated text p…” evidence ↗
Luke Stark: Almost every single student who has found me this week wants to talk about AI. A couple reflections. One student has taken three AI courses in philosophy, health sciences and comm. They’re basicall…
John Warner: I might take the under on # of courses. The people who write to me and say they're teaching AI integrated with teaching writing aren't teaching writing anymore. They've moved on to automated text p…
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