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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago
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science.org

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“This article ends with a good conclusion, but it is extremely misguided along the way. It is also a rich text for exploring how clear language helps make the point better. A thread: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... >>”

“This editor/author does the same “trick” as he writes: "Recently, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields. New AI agents can now carry out many…”

Established AI business Analysis 7d ago
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Is AI profitable analysis essay

Is AI Profitable Yet?

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“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”

Established AI field signal Development 19d ago
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AI skill degradation early results study

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

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“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”

“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”

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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
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Guardian AI consciousness essay

Could AI be conscious?

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“How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/t…”

“Starts with asking Claude if it’s a “moral patient” and goes downhill from there.”

Established Agents & robotics Development 6d ago
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Rural NY school humanoid robot teacher

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

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“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”

“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”

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Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
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Established AI field signal Resource 14d ago
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AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

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“New initiative from @karenhao.bsky.social airesistlist.org”

“On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world. http:// airesistlist.org”

Established AI field signal Development 10d ago
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AI fiction idiosyncrasies detection paper

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”

“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…”

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Ali Alkhatib: this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhe…
Ali Alkhatib: this is sort of a fundamental problem with pangram IMHO. if you restrict yourself from thinking critically about the author(s) as such and only look at syntax, you paint yourself very narrowly into…
Hypervisible : Even if it’s “good” by some metric, I don’t want to read it because it has no perspective or viewpoint.
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Established Compute & infrastructure Development 4d ago
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AI used to make anti-data center slop

AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI

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“We are in the making AI slop against AI data centers hellscape grift now. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”

“People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”

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Roland Meyer: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: This is relevant I think olivia.science/entryism/
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Established AI field signal Development 9d ago
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Nobel laureates AI economic action call

We Must Act Now

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“If current trajectories of AI development continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. di…”

“200 AI researchers and economists sign an open letter to policymakers www.wemustactnow.ai”

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tante: Oh, is it "AI is super powerful and we who are pushing for AI everywhere warn that we might have created a dangerous god from reddit posts" time of the month again? This is Anthropic/OpenAI PR and …
tante: nope that's it. These folks are getting lazier by the day
tante: Yeah. They spend just a handful of tokens on this website.
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Established Culture, work & education Signal 10d ago
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Economists ai threat jobs

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“Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...”

“I'm sure these 200 economists are all clearly calling out how autocratic corruption is dismantling regulatory autonomy, undermining any effort to protect labor or consumers before it even begins, right?”

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Rachel Coldicutt: Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.co…
Rachel Coldicutt: Yet again, I have cause to tap the sign hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...
Hagen Blix: Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to he…
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Established Models & releases Development 8d ago

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch

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“"behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized and exemplified by leadership...As a natural result, OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriat…”

“What are the odds that OpenAI, a company whose whole business model is to steal from everyone and who has journalists write articles/books on how Sam Altman is a serial liar, would then steal company secrets from the company it's in partnership with? Ask Ap…”

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Dare Obasanjo: Apple is suing OpenAI for stealing trade secrets. Apple alleges that senior OpenAI executives, who are ex-Apple, ask job candidates to bring in Apple hardware components to their interviews and coa…
Dare Obasanjo: "behind closed doors at OpenAI, where such misconduct is normalized and exemplified by leadership...As a natural result, OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations,…
Gus: Hum, this is quite serious! It's incredible how oai in stock a skirt time has so many legal issues Maybe their next model won't be strong in coding but in court defence
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Established AI research Development 4d ago
AI advice cuts accuracy boosts overconfidence

AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found

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“AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident: "Some participants who would have answered correctly on their own asked the AI and became wrong." Superpersuasion by dull tone has punch. I still suspect this is the same psych mechanis…”

““It is not just that people trust wrong #AI answers. It is that the mere availability of AI suppresses the cognitive habit of recognising what you do not know.” #GenAI #LLMs thenextweb.com/news/ai-advi...”

Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago
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Norway imposes near ban ai elementary school

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““Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters” https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/ >”

Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
Anti-AI sentiment 2026 essay

Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026

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“"I’ve struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity." Hating AI in 2026”

“"AI users seem untroubled by—or unaware of—the dissonance, because the richest individuals and corporations have decided that the future must be built on this specific approach to this specific technology that they own." www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-...”

Established Culture, work & education Signal 7d ago
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Philosophy majors ai jobs

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“Nice read in @nytimes.com about the philosophical questions at the heart of AI development: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...”

“Just glancing at the photos makes me worry we might not be thinking as deeply as we could about AI ethics. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...”

Established Policy & governance Development 12d ago
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AI hallucinations derailing governments report

Fact-check fail: When AI hallucinations derailing governments - Rest of World

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“Reminder: democracy depends on a commitment to truth. "South Africa withdrew its Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy because the document cited fake research, created by AI." Similar cases have happened in the US, Australia, Canada, and EU. #AIEth…”

Established AI research Research 5d ago
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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

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“This does not follow. Computationalism does not even imply makeism. See 📝 link.springer.com/article/10.1... See 🧵 bsky.app/profile/iris...”

“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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Iris van Rooij: What, in your opinion, is the strongest anti-computationalist argument out there?
Iris van Rooij: Here, by 'computationalism' I mean the metatheoretical thesis that cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation. See eg link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: Was not rhetorical, but I wonder if question was understood? bsky.app/profile/iris...
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