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Multiple readings LawZero | Home Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back Questions & unknowns · 4 attributable reactions Reaction converging Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions +3 more reaction maps further down
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New Compute & infrastructure Resource 2h ago
critical computer website resource

critical.computer

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” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dwayne Monroe

“🧵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 😌”

Primary source critical.computer ↗
New Policy & governance Development 21h ago
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AI local laws database built

LawZero | Home

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” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Ethan Zuckerman Hagen Blix Teresa Heffernan
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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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Primary source lawzero.org ↗
Developing AI business Development 2d ago
⚡ 7 h early
companies pull back from AI rush

Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

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...” evidence ↗
12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Lauren Klein Olivia Guest Luke Stark Rachel Coldicutt Marielza Erin Kissane Eileen Clancy 🧿 Daniel Solove +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
AI apocalypse framing essay

Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

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...” evidence ↗
10 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio AI Now Institute Tamara Kneese Joris van Hoboken Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র +2
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
Reaction converging

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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Primary source equator.org ↗
Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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.” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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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Primary source olivia.science ↗
Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
⚡ 8 h early
AI tool police homes interior photo

AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single 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.” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Black Aziz Anansi
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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...”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing NLP & language Signal 2d ago
⚡ 8 h early

Rethinking Linguistic Tests for Large Language Models: Airplanes Aren't Birds | Northern European Journal of Language Technology

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…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Baldur Bjarnason

“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…”

Primary source doi.org ↗
Established Models & releases Development 5d ago
OpenAI withdraws math preprints

OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems

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!” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
joao Olivia Guest Ben Williamson Edouard Machery
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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…”

Primary source retractionwatch.com ↗
Developing NLP & language Signal 2d ago

Rethinking Linguistic Tests for Large Language Models: Airplanes Aren't Birds | Northern European Journal of Language Technology

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…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Baldur Bjarnason

“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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Primary source nejlt.ep.liu.se ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 5d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Microsoft AI defense intelligence solutions page

Defense and Intelligence Solutions | Microsoft AI

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...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 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...”

Primary source microsoft.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
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AI as propaganda attack mannequins essay

Attack Mannequins: AI as Propaganda

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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...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest 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...”

Primary source monroelab.com ↗