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AI field signal
Signal
11d ago
⚡ 7 h early
13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Erin Kissane
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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13 experts
4 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Ok, so if you've been following along my weekend I've seen this study/preprint shared around a bunch and I decided the people needed a replication opportunity it is here: persist-study.pages.dev Based on this: news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...”
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evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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companies pull back from AI rush
12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Rosamunde Van Brakel
“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
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12 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Questions & unknowns
2 experts
What remains unresolved or contested.
“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." w…”
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Analysis
3d ago
AI apocalypse framing essay
10 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
3 attributable expert contributions
· AI Now Institute, Shobita Parthasarathy, Veni Kunche
“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...”
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10 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
3 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...”
Markets & investment
1 expert
Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵”
Questions & unknowns
1 expert
What remains unresolved or contested.
“"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."”
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Justin Hendrix: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
David Kaye: i had to scroll to the end for this modest, "arundhati roy is a writer"
Eryk Salvaggio: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
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AI field signal
Development
11d ago
⚡ 2 h early
humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts
10 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Sarah T Roberts, PhD
“It bears mentioning that Microsoft just shut down its Microsoft Research Social Media Collective…because why should they care about the social consequences of their products, right? Including worker harms.”
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10 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“It bears mentioning that Microsoft just shut down its Microsoft Research Social Media Collective…because why should they care about the social consequences of their products, right? Including worker harms.”
“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...”
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AI field signal
Development
4d ago
⚡ 8 h early
AI tool police homes interior photo
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Hypervisible
“Probably nothing to worry about for homeowners unless there are a bunch of other devices taking images in your home and making that data available for sale. Good thing no one would do that.”
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5 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Probably nothing to worry about for homeowners unless there are a bunch of other devices taking images in your home and making that data available for sale. Good thing no one would do that.”
Context & explanation
1 expert
Background, chronology and why it matters.
“In other words, from a single photo, Raven appears to be able to quickly find the specific home it was taken in, without using location data or other metadata attached to the image. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...”
Developing
AI field signal
Analysis
2d ago
⚡ 793 h early
critical AI essay olivia science
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Jed Brown
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”
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5 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
4 experts discussed this · 46 posts
Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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AI field signal
Analysis
1h ago
Pangram not oracle essay
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Emily M. Bender
“Some words on how to evaluate language technologies (and caution against using them to undermine others' work) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...”
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3 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Some words on how to evaluate language technologies (and caution against using them to undermine others' work) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
““Pangram is not an oracle • Buttondown” https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/pangram-is-not-an-oracle/ > But as always, we have to be wary of any proposed technical solutions and evaluate them with care (including asking whether a technical solution is ca…”
AI local laws database built
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Teresa Heffernan
“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en”
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4 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“LawZero (lawzero.org/en) has $300m from the Canadian and German governments to build AI as a global public good, with a focus on building safe, responsible and equitable AI.”
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Olivia Guest: Sup dawg, I heard you trust AI, so I put an AI in your AI so you can trust AI while you trust AI.
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawz…
Olivia Guest: prob I should sue
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critical computer website resource
3 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Dwayne Monroe
“🧵A shout-out to @olivia.science whose marvellous work in progress, 'Critical Computer' I highly recommended - critical.computer”
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3 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“🧵A shout-out to @olivia.science whose marvellous work in progress, 'Critical Computer' I highly recommended - critical.computer”
“feeling really burned out, so I redrew the computer in the top and bottom to be a bit haunted 😌”
OpenAI withdraws math preprints
4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Edouard Machery
“it has been like that since the first days of LLMs - they exploited the cog sci community to understand what they models do, how they work, they are now exploiting mathematicians. free labor, which we are surprisingly too willing to give. Nationalize!”
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4 experts
3 communities
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“it has been like that since the first days of LLMs - they exploited the cog sci community to understand what they models do, how they work, they are now exploiting mathematicians. free labor, which we are surprisingly too willing to give. Nationalize!”
Markets & investment
1 expert
Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Association for Human Mathematics: “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 un…”
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AI field signal
Resource
5d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Microsoft AI defense intelligence solutions page
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Dwayne Monroe
“We correctly note Palantir's role as the tech stack for state surveillance but Microsoft has long been there: www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/def...”
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2 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“We correctly note Palantir's role as the tech stack for state surveillance but Microsoft has long been there: www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/def...”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Olivia Guest
“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…”
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2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…”
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AI field signal
Signal
18d ago
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Charles Logan
“Rather than adopt a stance of critical optimism, educators and education researchers can - and, I'd argue, should - refuse GenAI. We outline three forms of refusal: curricular; bureaucratic; and administrative. You can find our article below; it's paywalled…”
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3 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“Rather than adopt a stance of critical optimism, educators and education researchers can - and, I'd argue, should - refuse GenAI. We outline three forms of refusal: curricular; bureaucratic; and administrative. You can find our article below; it's paywalled…”
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Olivia Guest
“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…”
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2 experts
2 communities
1 sources clustered
“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…”
2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Olivia Guest: > As [I and @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social] point out, drawing inferences about shared competence based on shared behavioral outputs risks committing a metatheoretical fallacy: it conflates surface s…
Olivia Guest: Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions…
Olivia Guest: also this from doi.org/10.31234/osf... with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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data centers taken to court podcast
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Iris van Rooij
“☀️ 📚 Day 1 of the Summer School, we had the inspiring and thought-provoking keynote by @olivia.science, titled: “What is AI, and why is it harmful?” You can watch it here 🎬 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85... 2/🧵”
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3 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“☀️ 📚 Day 1 of the Summer School, we had the inspiring and thought-provoking keynote by @olivia.science, titled: “What is AI, and why is it harmful?” You can watch it here 🎬 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85... 2/🧵”
Opportunity & adoption
1 expert
New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”
Questions & unknowns
1 expert
What remains unresolved or contested.
“For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”
2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈: Excited to hear @olivia.science’s research on what #AI is and why it is harmful at today’s @adaptcentre.bsky.social webinar. (Happening now!) #PhilAI #CogSci
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈: For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
Olivia Guest: oh you already found it! thank youu 🩵
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critical AI literacies summer school
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Iris van Rooij
“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...”
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3 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“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 🥲
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AI field signal
Analysis
5d ago
⚡ 3485 h early
AI as propaganda attack mannequins essay
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Dwayne Monroe
“Five years ago, I stated a book with the working title of Attack Mannequins'. The book's theme: the promotion of 'AI' is an anti-worker psyop. The idea was introduced here: monroelab.com/2021/09/19/a...”
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2 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“Five years ago, I stated a book with the working title of Attack Mannequins'. The book's theme: the promotion of 'AI' is an anti-worker psyop. The idea was introduced here: monroelab.com/2021/09/19/a...”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
Why this matches
Concern & critique reaction
1 attributable expert contribution
· Charles Logan
“"With these collages, I am attempting to provoke thought about how linguistic and visual rhetorical devices are used to describe generative AI," writes @dalupton.bsky.social. Less industry-aligned AI literacy and more critical collaging, please!”
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2 experts
1 community
1 sources clustered
“"With these collages, I am attempting to provoke thought about how linguistic and visual rhetorical devices are used to describe generative AI," writes @dalupton.bsky.social. Less industry-aligned AI literacy and more critical collaging, please!”
