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essay how to talk AI
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“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…”
“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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AI as social science field essay
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“Yes. www.amacad.org/publication/...”
“Food for thought... "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool" www.amacad.org/publication/...”
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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: Thank you for reading and sharing.
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AGI illusion language models essay
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“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...”
Pew Research Americans AI views 2026
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“~50% of people (in the US) use LLMs regularly, and this has only been increasing more over time. These products are already somewhat ingrained in society, and informing people about the risks and issues with tools that they are attached to does not work if …”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“"More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults" www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...”
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“This isn’t the gotcha you think. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...”
“this piece by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social about what his students have said about AI, why they're using it, and what they think about it. "Nobody used the term “arms race,” but that’s what they described: enormous pressure to use AI or fall behind those who ar…”
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open letter AI academia adoption
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Building & implementation
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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
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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…”
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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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models don't go rogue essay
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”
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Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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3d ago
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“"'The fact that this policy exists at all is due to the enormous work of parents across the city who spoke out against the overreach of A.I. into their kids’ classroom,” @kellyclancy.bsky.social said."”
“Meanwhile in New York www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...”
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Why We Fear AI book essay
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“Almost like we should ask ourselves who's afraid of AI, and why”
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Astra Taylor: Part of why I wrote my book The Age of Insecurity was to get at some of the economic dynamics now being weaponized against some parts of the socialist left. Yes, “middle class" (hard to define), pr…
Astra Taylor: That means they see where their true interests lie. Growing numbers of people who have some or even a significant amount of wealth or privilege (again, hard to define) are realizing that there are …
Astra Taylor: For one, the bottom can always fall out. Even those with apparent financial stability can have their lives derailed by a climate disaster, job loss, a health emergency, or a domestic or global fina…
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joyless decadence culture essay
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““There is no pleasure or pain for an AI, no skin in the game,” the philosopher Carissa Véliz writes in her recent #book Prophecy. As a result, an AI “cannot care, and therefore cannot value”. #authors www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...”
““But whereas des Esseintes’s withdrawal is an immersion into the subtleties of sensation, Johnson’s ‘Don’t Die’ movement treats the delights of the senses as suspect, even fatal.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...”
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Pavel: Tomato and pineapple are both sweet and acidic fruit, making it theoretically possible to create a pineapple sauce that performs the same role as tomato sauce.
Abstract Tesseract: lasagna but it's penne-apple-pineapple-penne
Pavel: I promise I am researching this solely for science and not to create the most cursed pizza imaginable
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OpenAI Learning Lab education launch
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“OpenAI's "Learning Lab is being positioned as an ongoing research ecosystem rather than a single research project." What this means? OpenAI is trying to make ChatGPT a global focus of educational research as well as a core pedagogic tool. www.edtechinnovati…”
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4d ago
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“The findings here and the quotes from the people surveyed are frightening, particularly given how predatory and untrustworthy these companies are.”
“> 1 in 4 US adults now turn to AI chatbots for emotional or personal advice, per a new Elon/WaPo poll. For adults under 50, it jumps to nearly 40%. While half say it helps with loneliness, not everyone knows the privacy stakes. Chat logs are retained and al…”
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2d ago
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New Yorker AI food slop essay
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““A nauseating, nightmarish quality defines AI’s insectified interpretation of human cuisine, as if food were just another surrealist goo to stochastically iterate upon,” @bradybricknerwood.bsky.social writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...”
“«A nauseating, nightmarish quality defines A.I.’s insectified interpretation of human cuisine, as if food were just another surrealist goo to stochastically iterate upon. …These images violate science; they mock life itself.» #Slop #PlatformRealism www.newy…”
cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay
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“One of them is RLVR, which I’ve written about here as clearly as I could, albeit in a different context: mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...”
“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”
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Eryk Salvaggio: This may be considered spicy but as someone who wrote a paper in 2022 that put this idea into the world (re: image models) the LLM is not merely reflecting what people say on the Internet anymore; …
Eryk Salvaggio: It parrots the structure of how we discuss ideas to arrive at conclusions. They have abstracted that form of conversation into something a model can work with. But "it was obviously in the training…
Eryk Salvaggio: But all that is pretty confusing if you're stuck on the idea that language is thinking. The paradigm shift is that these models made unthinking erudition possible, and we have to grapple with under…
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employers prefer AI over workers
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5d ago
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