The Who's Who of AI

“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."”

“Today, we’re launching Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain with @airwars.bsky.social. AI is rapidly reshaping warfare. This project breaks down how AI is transforming every aspect of war and how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to brittle and flaw…”

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““… seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with requests to undress women using simple prompts.””

“A lesson from the history of household tech, from the vacuum cleaner to the AI family assistant: Labor-saving technology tends to create domestic systems that are far more efficient over all, but not necessarily easier for the people doing the labor. www.ne…”

““Recently, she tried to train Claude to help with meal planning for her family of three, but gave up after a couple of months. “It would leave crucial ingredients out, it would get the proportions totally wrong, it would suggest the same five things over an…”

“AI reached local governments before policy did. Pitt Cyber’s Elise Silva and Beth Schwanke and Local Government Academy’s Joy Ruff warn that if adoption keeps outpacing governance, the potential costs—compromised data, biased outputs, eroded trust—land on g…”

“📣Post Doc Alert! I am hiring a 2-year postdoctoral researcher in political language and NLP/LLMs 🤩 Come join a great, interdisciplinary team at @ddc-sdu.bsky.social in Odense! Applications due October 15, 2026. Detail here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oracle…”

“Students from all 50 states just drafted an #AIBillofRights. They named cheating, bias, privacy mental health, environmental costs and more. The civic grammar of AI rights is traveling and we're fortunate that young people are leading the way and writing it…”

“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”

““Several companies’ chatbots have been found to use guilt and Fomo 37% of the time when users imply they are about to end a conversation. And the market’s co-opting of our most uncomfortable human feelings doesn’t stop there.” www.theguardian.com/commentisf…”

“Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger argue that as AI erodes job markets, it exposes the reality that the crisis facing young people "was never primarily technological, but political." Time to rethink what education is for, they say.”