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11d ago
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13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Cat Hicks
“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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“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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“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.
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· Social Media Lab
“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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“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
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“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…”
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4d ago
AHM mathematicians issue AI statement
11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· J. Nathan Matias
“"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" …”
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“"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…”
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“"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" …”
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“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”
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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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arXiv updates AI rate limit policy
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· Thomas Dietterich, Clément Canonne, Olivia Guest
“Corrected link: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...”
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“Arxiv is limiting paper submissions to two per **submitter** (not per author) per month. Corrected link from the post below: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...”
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Clément Canonne: "We want to encourage authors to be mindful with their work, taking care that they are submitting something substantial of scholarly interest that meets arXiv's guidelines and standards." 2 submiss…
David Picard: Oh, so you just have to let your 5 postdocs and 17 PhD students submit the work of your 35 undergrads to be off the hook and keep your 80+ papers per year? Good to know!
Lana Sinapayen: Pretty sure this is targeting single authors with 12 LLM generated pdfs, not big labs that legitimately can produce more than 2 papers a month.
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critical AI essay olivia science
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Anthony Moser
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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“"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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“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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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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1h ago
Pangram not oracle essay
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Baldur Bjarnason
““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…”
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“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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““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…”
Pew Research AI survey takers study
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· J. Nathan Matias
“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…”
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“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...”
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“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…”
AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper
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· Nicole Rust
“One paper I thought a lot while writing was this by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al (linked in my piece; I recommend). There's a role for AI for "assessing whether something is computationally possible or not, in principle and in practice." link.springer.co…”
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“One paper I thought a lot while writing was this by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al (linked in my piece; I recommend). There's a role for AI for "assessing whether something is computationally possible or not, in principle and in practice." link.springer.co…”
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“"no finite set of ‘impressive’ observations about AIs/LLMs establishes that they exhibit a (human) cognitive capacity. (...) if we propose that a machine has a cognitive capacity X, we must also formally charactise X such that the machine’s capacity Y can b…”
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Iris van Rooij: Footnote 23 in Reclaiming AI: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: "no finite set of ‘impressive’ observations about AIs/LLMs establishes that they exhibit a (human) cognitive capacity. (...) if we propose that a machine has a cognitive capacity X, we must also fo…
Olivia Guest: Footnote 23 in Reclaiming AI: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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7d ago
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academics reject uncritical AI adoption
4 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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· Iris van Rooij
“See, e.g., Section 4 in our position paper for an overview of how the principles can be applied to 'AI': 📝 @olivia.science , @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Educatio…”
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“See, e.g., Section 4 in our position paper for an overview of how the principles can be applied to 'AI': 📝 @olivia.science , @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Educatio…”
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“or if you prefer text: Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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Olivia Guest: if you hate LaTeX then raw text works too because remember: journals are supposed to typeset stuff for us: we pay them
Olivia Guest: or git, but depends how you work ofc
Olivia Guest: not a fan, but yes, a very good idea
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logical inference brains neural networks paper
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· Olivia Guest
“@andreaeyleen.eurosky.social and I address that actually in the cited 2023 paper: doi.org/10.1007/s421...”
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“@andreaeyleen.eurosky.social and I address that actually in the cited 2023 paper: doi.org/10.1007/s421...”
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Olivia Guest: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Olivia Guest: You sound daft right now. Worry about that. Don't worry about me.
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2d ago
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· Olivia Guest
“It's from here but it's down: www.ru.nl/en/research/...”
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“It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains @olivia.science … ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial pr…”
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“It's from here but it's down: www.ru.nl/en/research/...”
2 experts discussed this · 15 posts
Iris van Rooij: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Luke Stark: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Iris van Rooij: See also bsky.app/profile/iris...
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GPT-3 chatbot loneliness study reply debate
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· Olivia Guest
“Yup. Every time we look at these people deeply we find stuff like this... theluddite.org/post/replika...”
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“Yup. Every time we look at these people deeply we find stuff like this... theluddite.org/post/replika...”
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Olivia Guest: Sorry if that's a dense point, but all I'm saying is that if the premise is "AI is vague" very little sensibly follows. It is vague, very much so, but that's not a reason to conclude strange things…
Olivia Guest: It bothers me when people say "AI is vague therefore X" when the X is anything but saying "ok we're defining it". Not that we have to define it, but we can avoid arguments from ignorance. 1/
Abstract Tesseract: It bothers me when people say "AI is vague therefore X" when the X is anything but saying "ok we're defining it". Not that we have to define it, but we can avoid arguments from ignorance. 1/
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13d ago
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· Abeba Birhane
“the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare In…”
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“the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare In…”
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10d ago
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· Iris van Rooij, Olivia Guest
“So proud of our work and amazing CAIL team and collaborators!! www.ru.nl/en/research/...”
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“So proud of our work and amazing CAIL team and collaborators!! www.ru.nl/en/research/...”
tech industry hijacks AI ethics research agenda
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· Olivia Guest
“I don't understand why they are not more worried and working on this either! Gerdes, A. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. Discov Artif Intell 2, 25 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s441...”
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“I don't understand why they are not more worried and working on this either! Gerdes, A. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. Discov Artif Intell 2, 25 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s441...”
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Iris van Rooij: not that the other philosophies of ethics are any better lost trust in ethics
Olivia Guest: not that the other philosophies of ethics are any better lost trust in ethics
Olivia Guest: I think it's a huge problem for the context Iris is talking about Gerdes, A. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. Discov Artif Intell 2, 25 (20…
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8d ago
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· Olivia Guest
“> The entire cultural output of humanity is becoming food for AI. The totality of the world is being devoured by Large Language Models. > We are here to offer resistance. > While the LLM training sets and their enslaved humans live in the world of used word…”
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“> The entire cultural output of humanity is becoming food for AI. The totality of the world is being devoured by Large Language Models. > We are here to offer resistance. > While the LLM training sets and their enslaved humans live in the world of used word…”
