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Reaction converging What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
⚡ 193 h early
math and AI declaration

Declaration — Math and AI

20 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

20 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Richard Sutton Emad Gary Marcus Marc Lanctot Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest J. Nathan Matias Delip Rao e/σ +12

“A nice statement from the mathematicians: https://t.co/KGNvPnjEdi”

“Ok all, daily blog here it is, the first blog is on the future of Mathematics following the https://t.co/XV2iGEj50R declaration from 25 Field Medallists Let me know if you like it and amplify! Emad the British Mathematician https://t.co/1SzRUnW357 https://t…”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Michelle Greene: I cannot. Can we really not be bothered to read and write?
Michelle Greene: This! 100% this! Why are we academics except to over-read, over-write, and over-think?
Michelle Greene: …sigh…
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Primary source mathandai.org ↗
Established Policy & governance Analysis 5d ago
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AI cult policymakers warning essay

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Meredith Broussard Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest M.J. Crockett Hypervisible Nick Diakopoulos David Kaye Meredith Martin +4
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

4 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to …”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“finally had a moment to read this. "why should I waste my time and my sanity debating kooks? In short, because the kooks are now in power, and they are using that power to dismantle the institutions designed to keep the rest of us safe, healthy, and free." …”

11 experts discussed this · 33 posts
Mike Masnick: Not going to comment on the whole "AI safety sex cult" thread that's making the rounds *other* than to note that it's been interesting to watch actual trust & safety people moving into the AI world…
Mike Masnick: To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often …
Pwnallthethings: It is, I have to say, incredibly annoying that AI safety includes both some quite serious risks, some plainly massive economic and political force, and, yes, some genuinely serious people, but mixe…
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Primary source techpolicy.press ↗
Established AI research Analysis 15d ago
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Leiden Declaration AI and mathematics

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

16 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

16 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Clément Canonne Olivia Guest suhr Pierre Alquier Lisa Messeri +8
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Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“A list of principles put forth by mathematicians, for mathematicians and other researchers, regarding the use of AI in research. "Number #9 will surprise you!" leidendeclaration.ai”

Context & explanation

1 expert

Background, chronology and why it matters.

“Andrew, here is a place to start for some background reading: leidendeclaration.ai >>”

4 experts discussed this · 22 posts
Emily M. Bender: Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjec…
Emily M. Bender: And people have the gall to refer to all of this as "new empiral evidence" (of "AI" or "AGI" or something) and demand that we respond to it. >>
Emily M. Bender: But it doesn't matter how verifiable the math results are, nor how diligently the media repeats the anthropomorphized descriptions of the cybercrimes and breathless repetitions of existential risk …
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Established Culture, work & education Resource 17d ago
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DAIR Luddite Lab AI labor resource

Luddite Lab

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Hypervisible Eryk Salvaggio The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Meredith Martin Charles Logan

“Loool. You can also print out the second page of the Executive Summary and stick it about. labor.dair-institute.org/primers”

“Today in oh shit the semester starts soon and I’m grateful for cool things put together by others: Cheers once more to @alexhanna.bsky.social and co-authors for the primer “Myths About Generative AI, Productivity, and Job Displacement” because it's an excel…”

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Charles Logan: Today in oh shit the semester starts soon and I’m grateful for cool things put together by others: Cheers once more to @alexhanna.bsky.social and co-authors for the primer “Myths About Generative A…
Alex Hanna: Today in oh shit the semester starts soon and I’m grateful for cool things put together by others: Cheers once more to @alexhanna.bsky.social and co-authors for the primer “Myths About Generative A…
Alex Hanna: Glad it's helpful!
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Primary source labor.dair-institute.org ↗
Established Models & releases Resource 7d ago
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Princeton LLMs reasoning workshop

Can LLMs Reason? A Hands-On Exploration

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Meredith Martin Center for Digital Humanities

“Join @leifw.bsky.social also on 10/5 for a workshop that will guide participants through the basics of an LLM setup and the specific way that models are trained to "reason." @princetonainews.bsky.social”

Primary source cdh.princeton.edu ↗
Established Evaluation & benchmarks Research 6d ago
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human authorship halo attribution paper

The human-authorship halo: attribution bias in literary style evaluation by humans and AI

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Maria Antoniak Meredith Martin

“arxiv.org/abs/2510.08831 updated version of our article from last year @wouterhaverals.bsky.social and I updated the title & experiments. Check out this strengthened version, esp. if you are thinking abt cultural evaluation & benchmarks. @arnicas.bsky.socia…”

Primary source arxiv.org ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 13d ago
⚡ 10 h early
Princeton AI humanities framework discussion

Faculty Discussion: AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Meredith Martin Center for Digital Humanities

“For @princeton.edu faculty tomorrow, 9/16 @ 12:15 - @mmvty.bsky.social will introduce a framework recently developed by the @modernlanguage.bsky.social’s AI and Research Working Group to help guide humanities scholarship in the age of AI. Together, explore …”

Primary source cdh.princeton.edu ↗
Established Agents & robotics Signal 6d ago

Amazon blocks meta muse ai agent from its retail site

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Meredith Martin

“from Spencer Soper today in Bloomberg. Also this: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Matthew Kirschenbaum: What I’ve been banging on in the (more specific) domain of writing for three and a half years.
Meredith Martin: resonates with the entire degradation of web information environment. I.e. AI has *not* been good for advertisers & is therefore bad for commerce & also journalism. Same wrt expertise. "Feeding" up…
Meredith Martin: “There’s a famine of content from brands,” said Molly Schonthal, managing director of agentic commerce at the marketing firm WPP Enterprise Solutions. She encouraged brands to increase their visibi…
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Primary source bloomberg.com ↗
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