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16d ago
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AI skill degradation early results study
13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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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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Developing
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2d ago
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AI kill chain anatomy interactive resource
12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“I was thinking about things like @HeidyKhlaaf's work https://t.co/0Nnpm89kKl”
“Excellent work from the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and @airwars.bsky.social. "To demystify military AI, we construct an abstract kill chain that reflects an AI targeting cycle."”
US school districts impose AI moratoriums
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Policy & governance
2 experts
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“NYC and LA just restricted AI in classrooms, and in both cities the parents and teachers who pushed for it are celebrating. Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports on the grassroots movement resisting the rush to adopt AI in schools.”
NYC mayor AI school generative moratorium
6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) …”
“It is that simple.... "a new Technology in Schools Coalition, made up of students, educators, parent leaders, elected officials, advocates, union partners and experts in the field will convene to assess the impact of the moratorium and limited pilots". www.…”
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16d ago
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digital camouflage shirt defeats AI surveillance
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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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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Pluralistic Doctorow blog resource
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“You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...”
2 experts discussed this · 74 posts
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): It may strike you as weird, but lenders *love* lending to poor people who will have trouble paying them back. Obviously, lenders want to be repaid, and the more money you have, the easier it is to …
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/25/c... 2/
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): In other words: because poor people have a higher likelihood of defaulting, their loans come with higher interest rates and worse terms. Debt is steeply regressive: the less money you have, the mor…
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4h ago
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“UW iSchool is also hiring for a tenure-track Assistant Prof. in AI, broadly defined, and for two positions in Information Systems and Management. TT AI: apply.interfolio.com/192128 TT Info Systems & Info Management: apply.interfolio.com/192089 Teaching-trac…”
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4d ago
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3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“A new Pew Research survey across 37 countries found that on balance, people expect AI will lead to job loss in next 20 years & people are more likely to say AI will increase rather than decrease the gap between the rich and the poor... www.pewresearch.org/g…”
twelve US state companion bot laws
4 directory members surfaced this signal.
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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
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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...”
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4d ago
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2 directory members surfaced this signal.
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“The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people restofworld.org/2026/global-wo… #AI #UseCases #globalExamples #SmallBusiness”
AI agents reshape internet agency essay
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Internet governance and AI governance communities have largely stayed separate. Konstantinos Komaitis and Rumman Chowdhury make the case that they must come together to build an "authority layer" for an internet increasingly driven by AI agent interactions.”
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13h ago
Robert Reich AI populism essay
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4d ago
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anti-AI advertisement campaign
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“This satire is pretty much spot on for the AI billboards in SF. https://t.co/cx0MIJ7Bnl”
Atlantic society of cheats essay
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... "This is how communities tend to respond to crime waves: They beef up law enforcement. Surveillance widens, punishments stiffen, and legal codes expand to police behavior that was formerly restrained by customary norms of…”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
““Squeaky-clean grammar, a superabundance of bullet points, and fairly robotic reiteration of facts rather than the pleasing lurch of original thinking”: “This is the horrid house style of AI-generated papers” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...”
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9d ago
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“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”
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“That is a game I play every day of my life as the editor of Critical AI. But honestly, there is nothing I would change due to some recent innovation in LLMs. I talk about this in the interview w/ UC Press www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h...”
Washington AI regulation stalled essay
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15d ago
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AI makes humans less human essay
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
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““Kim & McGrill have been studying what happens when people attribute human traits to AI: they are more likely to dehumanize their fellow humans.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...”
