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Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work Policy & governance · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings The AIs Are Not Going Rogue | NOEMA Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
⚡ 7 h early

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
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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Primary source news.berkeley.edu ↗
Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
⚡ 8 h early
Character.ai bankruptcy documents reveal

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Shannon Vallor 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Alexander Howard Social Media Lab Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈 +1
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

3 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows the economics of AI don't work: www.404media.co/character-a…”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshi…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
SwiftOnSecurity: GenZ has no money to goon
Dr J. Rosenbaum: Character[.]ai financials: - $13.8m on compute a month, then $10m a month - bringing in $2.8m in subscriptions, sometimes less than $1m - revenue from all sources $5.3m a month Its bankruptcy shows…
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 11d ago
⚡ 24 h early
book publishers AI staff revolt

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Shannon Vallor Katie Drummond Frank Pasquale Veni Kunche Stefanie Hane

“Good info to know who not to publish with if you have choices”

““We’ve been making valid business cases for years to be paid a healthy salary, and instead they spent that money on software …The average entry-level salary for New York City publishing employees at the Big Five and Scholastic was $47,583 in 2023” www.wired…”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI research Signal 3d ago

Scientists are finding ai may make us remember things that never happened

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Shannon Vallor Hypervisible

““Remembering is not simply a matter of depositing information somewhere in the brain. Attention, effort, retrieval and the work of making connections all help memories take hold. Generative AI can remove some of that work.””

Primary source washingtonpost.com ↗
Established AI field signal Development 11d ago
⚡ 6 h early
AI homework boost exam performance drop

Study finds AI boosted homework scores 18%—then tanked exam results 20% | Fortune

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Shannon Vallor

“But of course repeating the study in conditions with a real reward would be informative. In a sense that’s what longitudinal studies like the one on undergrads in China did, since they suffered actual exam score losses.”

Primary source fortune.com ↗
New Models & releases Development 19h ago
Google staff resign Pentagon AI contracts

Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Shannon Vallor

“Google’s defense is ‘We are still following our AI Principles.’ For a good laugh, follow the link in the story to their current ‘AI Principles’, and read them. Then scroll down to the links to older ‘AI Progress’ reports, and compare today’s Principles with…”

Primary source bbc.co.uk ↗
Established Safety & security Analysis 20d ago
NOEMA AIs not going rogue essay

The AIs Are Not Going Rogue | NOEMA

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Shannon Vallor Luke Stark Michael Zimmer Neil Turkewitz
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“If you need to explain to someone why the ‘Rogue AI’ framing is both wrong and harmful, actually blocking our view of what safety and responsibility requires in AI, this will help:”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

““The important engineering achievement will not be releasing increasingly autonomous artificial coworkers into organizations & hoping they’ve been sufficiently ‘aligned.’ It will be transforming general AI capabilities into controllable & observable workflo…”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Shannon Vallor: If you need to explain to someone why the ‘Rogue AI’ framing is both wrong and harmful, actually blocking our view of what safety and responsibility requires in AI, this will help:
Luke Stark: If you need to explain to someone why the ‘Rogue AI’ framing is both wrong and harmful, actually blocking our view of what safety and responsibility requires in AI, this will help:
Luke Stark: Are you as tired of all this as I am?
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Primary source noemamag.com ↗
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