Established
AI field signal
Analysis
12d ago
⚡ 97 h early
McSweeney's AI economics satire
14 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
14 experts
5 communities
1 sources clustered
“Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...”
“McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies”
Established
AI field signal
Resource
20d ago
⚡ 489 h early
AI resist list published
15 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
15 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join”
Building & implementation
1 expert
How teams are shipping and applying it.
“AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org”
socialist case against AI nationalization
9 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
9 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
Markets & investment
2 experts
Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“"When we hear AI, we shouldn’t fall for the AI peddlers’ narratives of productivity explosions and mass unemployment. We should think of Taylorism, of the myriad ways in which capital centralizes knowledge, measures people, and carves up work in order to ma…”
4 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: I think it's reasonable to ask of a research program that purports to automate away all jobs that it provide a positive vision of the future more confident than "hey, maybe we'll "cure" cancer alon…
Eugene Vinitsky: I've been talking about this a lot lately and it just feels like the moral cases in the field are significantly less developed than they should be and it's eating at me a bit
Juan Diego Rodriguez: This eats at me all the time. I don’t know what to do about it
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DOGE AI housing policy opacity
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
5 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“NEW: HUD appears to be making up FOIA exemptions. @telliotter.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doge-d...”
kids reject AI generational divide
5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
5 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
2 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool 37% of teens cringe at AI content, and more than half worry about deepfakes. While youth usually adopt new tech eagerly, this skepticism is coming off different.”
AI World Cup data workers labor report
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
6 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
““The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” says @grohmannrafael.bsky.social. “The football we watch runs on [data] work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2…”
““The growth of wearable technology such as smart vests, as well as the betting industry and prediction platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, is also fueling the demand for data workers.””
Established
AI field signal
Signal
10d ago
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
4 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
“I used to think ”spending on AI infrastructure could be the fuse that ignites the bomb that is the massive global debt bubble“ was paranoid fantasy, on the grounds that Big Tech was paying for it all out of cash on hand, but no, pretty clear that’s where we…”
Mayo Clinic AI patient care lawsuit
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
5 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
““According to the lawsuit, the team working on MAYA [the clinic’s ai assistant] deleted unflattering test results, mischaracterized the tool’s abilities, and made decisions that put data security in jeopardy.””
cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay
5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
5 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“If you look at all of Biden’s bullets you see this LLM pattern show up in some form or another — LLM templates aren’t a Mad Libs-style template, but they tend to repeat the same form of sentence. I wrote more here, if it’s of interest: mail.cyberneticforest…”
“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.”
3 experts discussed this · 14 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: Not picking on OP or endorsing the trend, but the number of people sharing and being genuinely moved by Hunter Biden’s Claude output is a good window into how audiences see and respond to LLM-gener…
Eryk Salvaggio: A microcosm in the quote-posts, too. And look, I’m not using Pangram (I don’t have to) or calling for anyone to shun anybody. Just noticing something.
Eryk Salvaggio: Can’t say it’s Claude specifically but it has lots of telltale signs. It’s bullets, for one. Two: the terse “The noun verbed” opener. 3, the negative parallelism (“not x, not y. Z.”) repeated twice…
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New
AI field signal
Development
11h ago
Mississauga AI data centre moratorium
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“Mississauga approves 1-year moratorium on AI data centres globalnews.ca/news/1200006...”
AI data centres Canada gas markets
4 directory members surfaced this signal.
4 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
UK datacenter water shortage concern
3 directory members surfaced this signal.
3 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says www.theguardian.com/environment/...”
teacher arrested anti-data center protest
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
ChatGPT Health US launch
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
““… the company maintains in its terms that its services are ‘not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition.’””
Meta AI biased targeting mass layoffs
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
3 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
Markets & investment
2 experts
Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k3-the-largest-open-source-model-ever-rivaling-top-u-s-systems venturebeat.com/technology/chi… #AI #Kimi #OpenSource”
AI Appreciation Day observed
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“This is the most loser thing I’ve seen in at least a week.”
Established
AI field signal
Signal
10d ago
⚡ 74 h early
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
3 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
““The nurses described a workplace where software tracks call length, predicts daily productivity, and, for a stretch last year, used artificial intelligence to grade the empathy and tone in their voices.””
“A nurse “described cutting short a call with an elderly woman who had just received a terminal cancer diagnosis. The nurse said the woman …needed someone to talk to. The nurse held back from offering comfort because she feared it would hurt her monthly scor…”
