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Developing AI business Development 1d ago
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companies pull back from AI rush

Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Questions & unknowns

2 experts

What remains unresolved or contested.

“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." w…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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Amazon

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“Maybe, just maybe, the way to think productively about the intersection and AI is to spend much more time thinking about humans and much less about AI. That's what I tried to do in More Than Words through the lens of writing and teaching writing. www.amazon…”

Established AI field signal Development 3d ago
ChatGPT aided Tumbler Ridge school shooter

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to …”

“www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Paris Marx: The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the followin…
Paris Marx: Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC.…
Paris Marx: I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing to…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

13 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

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

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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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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The AI Novelty Cycle

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“But the otter test is a novelty. It is not a meaningful gauge of how AI tools might be useful to us or how we might think about these human capacities in relation to AI. Marveling at the capacity of AI to produce novelties is a waste of everyone's time. bib…”

Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago
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mitpress.mit.edu

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“You could take a look at this as a replacement mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...”

“You can order the physical book Inventing Eliza from @mitpress.bsky.social here:”

Established AI business Signal 6d ago
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First large scale study shows how doctors use ai medicine

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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““Two key takeaways are that an enormous number of physicians are using AI for clinical care and that they are often using it in areas where they don’t have specific expertise…” hms.harvard.edu/news/first-l...”

Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 5d ago
data centers K-16 civics curriculum

More than"AI Populism": Investigating Data Centers With K-16 Students — Civics of Technology

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Evan Shieh & @jbpleasa.bsky.social on why Jasmine Sun’s “No Data Centers in My Backyard” is "an illustrative case study for the persistent shortcomings of technocracy and the 'Abundance Agenda' to faithfully represent the material, socioenvironmental concer…”

Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

theatlantic.com

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Frank Pasquale: “According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, human…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: what worries me is that Sanders seems to accept the broligarchs’ claim that the Computer God they say they’re building is actually possible. I agree it’s normative a bad idea, but I also think it’s…
Luke Stark: “According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, human…
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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

theatlantic.com

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”

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