The Who's Who of AI

“A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act…”

“this is manipulative design by AI companies. you should read this, written by the head of Microsoft AI: mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab...”

“I am thrilled to give a lecture at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI & talk about my new paper “Optimising for happiness in EU technology policy to repay public subsidies for AI” Wed 25 Nov 2026, 12:30 - 1:30pm, see you all soon! tinyurl.com/yuxbp2jc full…”

“All of this is good news. Some of the most sophisticated jailbreaking tools (such as those on the super viral "Reverse Engineer Anything" Github page) run locally, on your own computer, without invoking the "frontier models" that the big, awful AI companies…”

“All those vibecode-anything-ports gonna lead to everything running in the cloud. And then, there's this: github.com/morluto/rea/ "GitHub project called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) lets AI agents figure out how a feature in another app works without ever…”

“LLM grooming seems common practice by now, done by everyone from the US to China and Isreal and corporations too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... state-media-influence-llm.github.io nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-... www.404media.co/companies-…”

“LLM grooming seems common practice by now, done by everyone from the US to China and Isreal and corporations too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... state-media-influence-llm.github.io nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-... www.404media.co/companies-…”

“LLM grooming seems common practice by now, done by everyone from the US to China and Isreal and corporations too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... state-media-influence-llm.github.io nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-... www.404media.co/companies-…”

“That last point makes it very clear that this is not a tool for horny boys, but a psychological weapon against political opponents, and a "systemic threat to women in European politics".”

“When the press reports on a "Black October" of catastrophic, AI-fueled data breaches and hack attacks, they don't mention a generation of policymakers' indifference and hostility to information security: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...”

“I really like this emerging frame here: "the importance of separating LLMs (the technology) from AI (the product and vision of the AI companies)" terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h... "LLMs are real, AI is fake." pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...”

“My Op-Ed @computerweekly.bsky.social on my new paper “Optimizing for happiness in EU tech policy to repay public subsidies for AI” Why are AI companies the only beneficiaries of current arrangements, while the public only pays the costs? tinyurl.com/3r4cckm…”

“Re:intelligence-sans-consciousness, i wrote about how we subtracted intelligence from cognition by picking up weak-but-true meaning from linguistic practice some months ago, where i also argue against any subjective experience in LLMs whatsoever.”

“I wrote about the psychological consequences of readily available nudifiers which "multiplies into a whole anonymous male group-gaze, being able to undress her at any time" in context of the Taylor Swift-deepfakes back then, with female activists, politicia…”

“I laid down that argument some years ago in more detail when i wrestled with some thoughts on open source AI, regulation and the limits of alignment here: goodinternet.substack.com/p/limitation... The image and analogy is apt in hindsight, i guess.”