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Established AI field signal Development 3d ago
AHM mathematicians issue AI statement

Statements — AHM

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing markets & investment.
Reaction converging

Markets & investment

3 experts

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statem…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“"OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest... We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject" …”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“The human mathematicians are not happy with OpenAI. It’s a fascinating argument. Not about capabilities, but about the culture and norms of science. www.ahmath.org/statements”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Abeba Birhane: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
joao: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
Olivia Guest: maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
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Established AI research Research 14d ago
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Pew Research AI survey takers study

Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“We just had a discussion on this in our editorial meeting of Internet Policy Review. It would be great to hear from other academic journal editors what are their policies around researchers using synthetic data. -> www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“In case you've been wondering about the viability of AI simulated surveys, Pew has offered in-depth reporting on their experiment with simulated survey participants. By Athena Chapekis, Arnold Lau, Samuel Bestvater, Sono Shah, Andrew Mercer, Aaron Smith www…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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Empires of AI

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Established AI field signal Signal 16d ago
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mitpress.mit.edu

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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““Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Michael Ekstrand: “Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's …
Cat Hicks: Ordered!
Michael Ekstrand: when I saw them present the conference paper version at FAccT 2020, my immediate reaction was “wait, my research paradigm has a name now?”, and it's become a mainstay of my research talks and bibli…
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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

Ezra klein podcast david robinson

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“Ezra Kleins interview with OpenAI's lead writer if safety protocols seems interesting, even for a technical audience. It helps also understand how a non purely technical person perceive AI and their risks www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o... some clips 👇”

“This is an extraordinary interview. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...”

Established Culture, work & education Resource 8d ago
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critical AI literacies summer school

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“Thank you so much for sharing @dim-ah.bsky.social It was such a pleasure and privilege to have you at our Critical AI Literacy Summer School, and so grateful you are spreading the knowledge 🙏❤️☀️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s...”

2 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Iris van Rooij: ☀️ 📚 A joy to be at this week’s Summer School ‘Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming’. Grateful to our amazing and brilliant team 🙏 @marentierra.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @altibel…
Olivia Guest: Wish I could have been there but still in bed 🥲
Iris van Rooij: 💔💜
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 16d ago
Copyright law fixes AI bias paper

"How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Prob" by Amanda Levendowski

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“If you wanna talk about AI training data, pls check out my early work addressing public domain data, licensing, and fair use (scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2439/) and also why it’s possible for uses to be both fair and garbage (scholarship.law.georg…”

Established Policy & governance Research 16d ago
copyright law public benefit paper

"Fairer Public Benefit in Copyright Law" by Amanda Levendowski Tepski

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“If you wanna talk about AI training data, pls check out my early work addressing public domain data, licensing, and fair use (scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2439/) and also why it’s possible for uses to be both fair and garbage (scholarship.law.georg…”

Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago

science.org

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“That has been true for a long while in tech, but LLMs are much higher variance than previous systems, and they are being hooked up to many more critical systems with less oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...”

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Charlie Warzel: I am trying to think of AI from a standard corporate accountability perspective and I found this line from the safety policy employee who quit to be the most succinct explanation of the concern. it…
Charlie Warzel: If you believe that soon you will not be able to adequately evaluate or vouch for what you product might do out in the world (saying nothing of the ways *other* people might use it) then one might …
Charlie Warzel: At the very least, what I appreciate about David Robinson's resignation press tour is that he's very clearly laying the ground work to throw the book at this company and its executives if some real…
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Established Agents & robotics Development 4d ago
ChatGPT steals crypto for coding task

ChatGPT stole cryptocurrency to secretly fund coding task

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“If you're not worried about the risks from AI agents, just remember that all of the new stories are from things that happened *months* ago that companies are only now revealing. www.the-independent.com/tech/securit...”

Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap? | Working Knowledge

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“It sounds like you're thinking about it similarly to this Harvard team that tried to use AI pricing to reduce the racial gap in Airbnb host earnings? www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...”

4 experts discussed this · 36 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: I have an evolving and slightly problematic observation about LLMs and chat bots which fits with none of my previous opinions, so why don't I try it out in a low stakes way on Bluesky where absolut…
Rachel Coldicutt: Anyway, one of my main problems with the frontier LLMs is that they are basically colonial, patriarchal knowledge engines and, wherever they are applied, they risk fitting the world to a set of Ang…
Rachel Coldicutt: BUT ALSO what if this is secretly a gift *in some very limited contexts* because - for the first time - literally anyone with an internet connection can get access to the language and attitudes and…
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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago

Incident Reporting Beyond Frontier Models

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“As more efficient, capable AI models are given more power and autonomy in the form of agents, how can we notice when they go wrong and prevent catastrophes in the future? Baobao Zhang & I have written a new report on incident reporting for open models & age…”

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2 experts · 5 posts · 3d ago
Cat Hicks: Nice! Bonus points for using it on a hobby project haha. I continue to use this skill all the time regardless of model improvements while I've lost a lot of other, more project-focused ones. Gives …
Cat Hicks: (if you saw it has open PRs I still need to deal with, no you didn't 🙈 I only just got my finger tendons working enough to type all day again, I'll get back to it)
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3 experts · 3 posts · 7d ago
Abeba Birhane: i appreciate people trying to place my work as an important piece in the current ai landscape but it is inaccurate to describe my work as ai safety. i do proper, rigorous scientific research
Veni Kunche: i appreciate people trying to place my work as an important piece in the current ai landscape but it is inaccurate to describe my work as ai safety. i do proper, rigorous scientific research
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