The Who's Who of AI

“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…”

“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

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

“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.”

“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…”

“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-...”

“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...”

“"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-...”

“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…”

“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...”

“Yes, thank you for sharing the `German version! On @olivia.science ’s CAIL website there are also links to translations in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish. olivia.science/ai/#activism”

“All the critical AI stuff is here if useful olivia.science/ai 💞”

“2/2 bsky.app/profile/oliv... pdf here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

“About 300 Netflix Titles Used Generative AI This Year, Company Reveals variety.com/2026/biz/news/… #AI #film #video”

“During its earnings call earlier today, Netflix shared that AI has been used in about 300 titles this year. Its shareholder letter stated "We are increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost than trad…”

“It's so core to the technology that things like Pygmalion displacement (doi.org/10.31235/osf...), pretending the Turing test (olivia.science/turing/) did not contain gender, and much more, happen right under our noses. 3/n”

“3️⃣ for those who make excuses for AI, or stats in general, in "scientific settings" without any critical reflection, see the thread below and this manuscript: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... I might come back and add more later, but maybe this is enough for now. ☺…”

“Not sure of you saw it, but this open letter may be of use/interest: openletter.earth/open-letter-...”

““Much like fascism generally, if left unchecked and unaddressed: AI is a totalising force that destroys people and planet from the inside out.” olivia.science/entryism/”

“managers or indeed uhhh editors in chief... context: olivia.science/entryism”

“"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." open access archived…”

“Also it is consistent with false analogy, which assumes two things are similar (when they aren't) in deep ways and causes immense confusion if not detected in one's thinking. doi.org/10.1007/s421...”