companies pull back from AI rush
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· Rachel Coldicutt, Erin Kissane
“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
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“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Concern & critique
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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...”
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“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…”
Is AI profitable analysis essay
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· Sasha Costanza-Chock
“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”
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“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”
AI cult policymakers warning essay
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· Meredith Martin
“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." …”
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Policy & governance
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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 …”
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“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." …”
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: I’ve been working on this one for a while - my heartfelt apologies for not getting it out before this week’s Very Upsetting news cycle. (I promise there is no discussion of the sex cult angle. No o…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techp…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: That was certainly my intent!
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AI apocalypse framing essay
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· 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 stupidity is about to inundate us."”
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“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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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵”
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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."”
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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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OSF open science framework platform
5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Olivia Guest
“We also make the case that the Turing test, the imitation game (see "Interlude: Can women think?" in doi.org/10.31235/osf...) rhetorically helps to form the founding historical example of Pygmalion displacement: when women computers were replaced by digital…”
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“We also make the case that the Turing test, the imitation game (see "Interlude: Can women think?" in doi.org/10.31235/osf...) rhetorically helps to form the founding historical example of Pygmalion displacement: when women computers were replaced by digital…”
“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”
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Olivia Guest: Ignoring this crucial distinction is BTW at the root of many instances of xenophobia/racism. People often assume that "defective" output (i. e. non-native register) equals a lack of cognitive capac…
Olivia Guest: I have lots on this angle of you're interested 🫶🏼 Sexism: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Racism: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Also... bsky.app/profile/oliv... and more but I'll not overwhelm you needlessly!
Iris van Rooij: Also here bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Anthropic ex-employee quit tweets revealed
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· Jillian C. York
“AI is going to kill us but also string theory is bullshit and the rainforest is gay. This guy's a real winner, huh? futurism.com/artificial-i...”
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“AI is going to kill us but also string theory is bullshit and the rainforest is gay. This guy's a real winner, huh? futurism.com/artificial-i...”
“surprise surprise he’s a climate change denier and doesn’t seem to understand basic reality futurism.com/artificial-i...”
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Mar Hicks: surprise surprise he’s a climate change denier and doesn’t seem to understand basic reality futurism.com/artificial-i...
Mar Hicks: Media stop taking grifting dudes seriously challenge
Emily M. Bender: surprise surprise he’s a climate change denier and doesn’t seem to understand basic reality futurism.com/artificial-i...
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9d ago
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“It’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less detectable (such as, paradoxically, the text becoming less convincing?). Only skimmed this for now, but seems interesting. …”
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“It’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less detectable (such as, paradoxically, the text becoming less convincing?). Only skimmed this for now, but seems interesting. …”
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AI models Zenodo research deposit
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· Olivia Guest
“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
“It this piques your interest, you also absolutely need to check out @olivia.science's piece on 'Models'. 📝 Guest, O. (2026). Models. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Trust me! You will not regret it 😎”
2 experts discussed this · 29 posts
Olivia Guest: I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society…
Olivia Guest: > [We need] to push back against correlationism[:] the idea that because things can appear similar that therefore their [other properties match. A] video of me may directly coincide with many of my…
Olivia Guest: > This becomes utterly damaging pedagogically when we assume the ‘output’ of an assignment, the essay or horrifically the grade, is the essence. The point is for students to engage with the subject…
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OpenAI math results shock mathematicians
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· Olivia Guest
“> Reactions [...] have been mixed, ranging from “obviously the most significant moment in mathematical history” to “mathematicians aren’t so thrilled at this giant pile of turd dumped at our doorstep”. I wonder what would cause such differences in reaction?…”
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“> Reactions [...] have been mixed, ranging from “obviously the most significant moment in mathematical history” to “mathematicians aren’t so thrilled at this giant pile of turd dumped at our doorstep”. I wonder what would cause such differences in reaction?…”
data centers taken to court podcast
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· 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...”
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“☀️ 📚 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
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”
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“For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”
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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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neural networks mysterianism mechanism paper
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· Olivia Guest
“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
4 experts discussed this · 17 posts
Shannon Vallor: I was in two intensive week-long workshops this year with neuroscientists, philosophers and computer scientists and not *one* thought LLMs are conscious, or that anything is ‘mysterious’ in a model…
Shannon Vallor: Because none of those scientists and philosophers were on an AI company payroll
rev. howard arson: fwiw it is actually a reallly interesting question but it is interesting in terms of "what about the optimization dynamics results in this phenomenology" rather than "is the thing making an accurat…
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scientific model prediction roles commentary
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· Olivia Guest
“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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“🍃 How do we use formal models to reason about cognition? Models doi.org/10.5281/zeno... On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Olivia Guest: Slight update to our — @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social — preprint, I added this table to help tease these out: > A glossary for some of the key terminology we use to discuss …
Iris van Rooij: Slight update to our — @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social — preprint, I added this table to help tease these out: > A glossary for some of the key terminology we use to discuss …
Olivia Guest: Will try my best to check! Migraine 🫠
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18d ago
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3 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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· Olivia Guest
“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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“🍃 What happens when these ideas radiate outwards from cognitive science? What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? doi.org/10.3390/bs16... Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Mary Branscombe: I don't find the "AI tools train you to rely on them" thing very compelling, like yeah, that's how good tools work. It sucks when someone takes away your phillips screwdriver or your autocomplete I…
Mary Branscombe: the magnetic plate in the box the screwdriver lives in needs to come with a hand that grabs the screwdriver, the spare bit and the screw and places them on the plate when I forget
alanau.bsky.social: I think maybe the difference is that we aren't using AI to do anything we couldn't do just fine without it. Maybe this is a failing of imagination, like maybe we should be trying to figure out what…
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