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Multiple readings Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings What 12 State ‘Companion Bot’ Laws Demand of AI Providers Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 17d ago
⚡ 47 h early
AI skill degradation early results study

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Alondra Nelson, Scott McGrath
“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Djamé 🟥 Scott McGrath Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +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.

“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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Primary source nature.com ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 3d ago
⚡ 8 h early
AI kill chain anatomy interactive resource

Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)
“It was great to speak to @democracynow.org on the risky uses of LLMs within the military kill chain and how we try to demystify the uses and dangers of AI in military decision making in our visual project "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain" which can be found her…” evidence ↗
12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Justin Hendrix Gaia Marcus Hypervisible AI Now Institute Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +4

“It was great to speak to @democracynow.org on the risky uses of LLMs within the military kill chain and how we try to demystify the uses and dangers of AI in military decision making in our visual project "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain" which can be found her…”

“I was thinking about things like @HeidyKhlaaf's work https://t.co/0Nnpm89kKl”

Primary source ai-killchain.airwars.org ↗
Established AI field signal Development 17d ago
⚡ 6 h early
digital camouflage shirt defeats AI surveillance

This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · 404 Media, Jason Koebler
“Simon Weckert designed digital camouflage as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras that detect people, vehicles, animals, bicycles, and other objects in their field of view. www.404media.co/this-digital...” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Marielza
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Simon Weckert designed digital camouflage as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras that detect people, vehicles, animals, bicycles, and other objects in their field of view. www.404media.co/this-digital...”

3 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Joseph Cox: We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
Meredith Whittaker: were that it weren't fugly
404 Media: We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
New Compute & infrastructure Analysis 18h ago
UN AI agenda undersea cables essay

The UN’s AI Agenda Must Prioritize Undersea Cables

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tech Policy Press
“Jane Munga from the Carnegie Endowment writes that even as the UN focuses on AI governance issues, including ‘rogue’ agents and risks, it also needs to prioritize the resilience of the undersea cables that carry the data that enables communications and AI a…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Tech Policy Press Marielza

“Jane Munga from the Carnegie Endowment writes that even as the UN focuses on AI governance issues, including ‘rogue’ agents and risks, it also needs to prioritize the resilience of the undersea cables that carry the data that enables communications and AI a…”

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Established Policy & governance Development 13d ago
⚡ 6 h early
twelve US state companion bot laws

What 12 State ‘Companion Bot’ Laws Demand of AI Providers

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tech Policy Press
“Twelve states now have "companion bot" laws aimed at reducing risks, particularly for minors. Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson of DLA Piper analyze the substantive provisions and identify four overarching principles for AI providers.” evidence ↗
4 experts 1 community 2 sources clustered
Tech Policy Press Marielza Frank Pasquale Julie Carpenter, PhD
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Twelve states now have "companion bot" laws aimed at reducing risks, particularly for minors. Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson of DLA Piper analyze the substantive provisions and identify four overarching principles for AI providers.”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

““Washington’s law goes furthest by requiring providers to prevent chatbots from expressly representing themselves as human to any user, whereas this requirement exists in several other states only for minor users.” techpolicy.press/what-12-stat...”

Primary source techpolicy.press ↗ buff.ly ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago

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2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · nitasha tiku
“my story trying to help people understand & contextualize warnings about extinction risk from AI is on the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com hope you'll give a read t.co/dfpYz5iCH6” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
nitasha tiku Marielza

“my story trying to help people understand & contextualize warnings about extinction risk from AI is on the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com hope you'll give a read t.co/dfpYz5iCH6”

Primary source t.co ↗
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5 experts · 10 posts · 10d ago
Mar Hicks Olivia Guest Damien Williams Marielza Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
Matches Concern & critique
“Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when t…
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 5d ago
sarah jeong Marielza tante
Matches Concern & critique
“we're facing existential threats from inattentive or lazy work, as well as burnout, fatigue, low sleep — stuff that requires the kind of regulation of working conditions that the tech industry has …” evidence ↗
sarah jeong: a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults…
sarah jeong: i've been thinking a bit about killer robots in literature and how it's kind of ambiguous whether skynet is sentient. art knows that the machines don't need to think to have blood on the gears
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3 experts · 6 posts · 16d ago
Emily M. Bender Paris Marx Marielza
Matches Concern & critique
“nice to see taylor take off the mask and show she’s a complete stooge for the tech industry. if you’re as ai-pilled as she is, you need to minimize the threat posed by the hyperscale data centers t…” evidence ↗
Paris Marx: nice to see taylor take off the mask and show she’s a complete stooge for the tech industry. if you’re as ai-pilled as she is, you need to minimize the threat posed by the hyperscale data centers t…
Paris Marx: it’s ridiculous to suggest data centers are just bad when they’re powered by natural gas, as if the industry isn’t fuelling a massive boom in new gas plants making emissions reductions basically im…
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