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Reaction converging What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Analysis 4d ago
⚡ 4 h early
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 Models & releases Resource 6d ago
⚡ 9 h early
Princeton LLMs reasoning workshop

Can LLMs Reason? A Hands-On Exploration

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
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 5d 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 Agents & robotics Signal 5d ago

Amazon blocks meta muse ai agent from its retail site

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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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 ↗
Debates gaining attention

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2 experts · 5 posts · 6d ago
Ted Underwood Meredith Martin
Ted Underwood: Cosign. The agentic turn makes "AI" itself almost transparent. The thing that now decides whether people perceive this as empowering is just: whether they believe they could benefit by breaking the…
Ted Underwood: I want to say “I know you feel that this is hurting you because it does something you’re currently paid to do.” “But are you really *sure* there aren’t new things you could do if you had 10,000 hel…
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