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Multiple readings Report – AI and Education Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Security incident disclosure — July 2026 Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Culture, work & education Resource 7d ago
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MIT AI education report published

Report – AI and Education

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Grace Lindsay Damien Williams Eileen Clancy 🧿 Nicole Hennig Elizabeth Bonawitz Derek Willis +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“New MIT report on AI calls for less emphasis on grades, more on project-based learning, recognition that programs for undergraduate research assistants are educational experiences that should not be replaced even if AI agents can do the research for less $$…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“AI and Education- MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ #AI #education (very comprehensive & foundational)”

3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Ted Underwood: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Derek Willis: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Ted Underwood: The world changing is mainly a problem for students. It also changes our ability to evaluate students — but if that’s the primary/sole focus of our conversation, we’ve forgotten the mission.
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Established Culture, work & education Development 12d ago
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university institutes AI classroom ban

Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Maria Antoniak Abeba Birhane Ted Underwood Mar Hicks suhr Prof. Dr Beth Singler Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Larry Hunter +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“I use AI more or less 24/7 but also teach intro courses device-free and would have no prob with a flexible policy like this. (It leaves room for assignments that explicitly invite AI use, of which I do have one even at intro level.) +”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“"Under the new guidelines, students will primarily read texts on paper and engage with them via device-free guided discussions" chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...”

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Established Safety & security Development 16d ago
HuggingFace security incident July 2026

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Melanie Mitchell Maria Antoniak Deedy Das Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Stephen Turner Leon Derczynski Matthew Sheffield Jordan Nanos
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"When we started analysis, we used commercial APIs. This did not work: requests were blocked by the providers' safety guardrails. We ran the forensic analysis instead on our own infra: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our en…”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“These programs are made from humanity's collective efforts. It's vital that their code and weights be available to all human beings, not just so that progress can be iterated faster, but also so that bad actors can be stopped faster as well. Great example h…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Question for Twitter hivemind: Attached is a sentence from the Hugging Face initial report on hacking incident (https://t.co/PuIHBdLCXK). Can anyone explain to me what "executing many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes" …”

Primary source huggingface.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
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ICLR 2027 submission policies announced

Submission policies for ICLR 2027 – ICLR Blog

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Maria Antoniak Yoshitomo Matsubara

“I like the #ICLR2027 submission policies and strongly support them "The deanonymization policy" is my favorite Personally, I think all major AI/ML-related conferences should follow that in this era The submission cap can be even lower, say 10 or even 5 from…”

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Established Culture, work & education Development 3d ago
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ICML culture AI workshop inaugural

Princeton's Meredith Martin Co-Organized First-Ever ICML Workshop on Culture and AI

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Maria Antoniak Center for Digital Humanities

“The @icmlconf.bsky.social is the leading annual conference for machine learning research. This summer, CDH / @princeton.edu's @mmvty.bsky.social co-organized the first-ever ICML workshop on Culture and AI, with @theturing.bsky.social, Google DeepMind, and @…”

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Established AI field signal Resource 12d ago
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Emory DSCI 340 course materials resource

GitHub - laurenfklein/dsci340-fall26: Notebooks and other course materials for Emory DSCI 340 (Fall 2026 - Klein)

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Maria Antoniak Lauren Klein

“After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structured around a single project: training up a C19 LLM from scra…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Lauren Klein: After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structu…
Maria Antoniak: After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structu…
Lauren Klein: NB: The first lesson is about the data center in Virginia that is hosting our cloud compute, and the last one is about the actual people who do RLHF for OpenAI and Meta (our class will be doing its…
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Primary source github.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago
⚡ 30 h early

Research Fellow

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Maria Antoniak Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

“We are recruiting postdocs in AI at Sydney! This is through the new Centre for Sustainability, AI and Life Sciences, with flexibility to work with a range of academics. Please share with any students you know who are close to graduation! usyd.wd105.myworkda…”

Primary source usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com ↗
Established AI field signal Development 14d ago
ICML 2026 papers replication study

How much science is verifiable? Results from replicating ICML 2026 oral papers

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Maria Antoniak chenhaotan.bsky.social

“It is very hard to keep up with multiple social media on multiple platforms. Allow me to share some old news. When ICML wrapped up, we used AI agents to review and replicate all 168 oral papers, including 105 full replications. The results are in this blog:…”

Primary source sai.science ↗
Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 9 posts · 11d ago
Maria Antoniak Nina Beguš Emily Hunt
Maria Antoniak: I’m also trying a variant of this with my CS grad seminar this semester. No screens in class, readings are printed and annotated by hand, and students create “commonplace books” with their notes an…
Maria Antoniak: But outside of class, they can use tech however they want, including AI. I have no method or desire for policing them.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 6d ago
Maria Antoniak Laura K. Nelson
Laura K. Nelson: "RAG improves technical quality, in particular factual accuracy, and prompt engineering steers social representation as requested." I've seen enough similar results, I'm ready to take a stand: We c…
Maria Antoniak: Both? But agreed that it’s frustrating to see people often reporting on unrealistic or non-expert usages alone. It devalues the capabilities of the actual humans engaging in these tasks.
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