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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

Ai ban schools nyc

10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered

“"'The fact that this policy exists at all is due to the enormous work of parents across the city who spoke out against the overreach of A.I. into their kids’ classroom,” @kellyclancy.bsky.social said."”

“Meanwhile in New York www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...”

New Culture, work & education Research 13h ago
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Pew Research Americans AI views 2026

Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“~50% of people (in the US) use LLMs regularly, and this has only been increasing more over time. These products are already somewhat ingrained in society, and informing people about the risks and issues with tools that they are attached to does not work if …”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“"More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults" www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...”

Established AI research Resource 17d ago
⚡ 31 h early
In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

12 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

3 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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New AI field signal Signal 8h ago

papers.ssrn.com

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
⚡ 3 h early
Texas police AI-written abortion report

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“New from 404 Media: the Texas police who used Flock to track a woman who self-administered abortion also used AI to write their report about the whole situation. They used AI to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.” www.404med…”

Established AI field signal Development 18d ago
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Meta glasses school harassment

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“If you build a tool that makes it easy to spy on and harass people, that's exactly what people will use it for. This is all by design. futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“Today in unsurprising but depressing news: "every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls." futurism.com/artificial-i...”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Maggie Harrison Dupré: NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
Maggie Harrison Dupré: We found dozens of videos shared by teens using smart glasses to record content at middle and high schools. Some of these videos are "Come With Me" or "Day in My Life" -style influencer content. Ki…
Hypervisible : NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
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Established Policy & governance Signal 19d ago

Ai slop lawmakers congress

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“I made jokes about this on twitter years ago and now it’s actually happening www.politico.com/news/2026/08...”

“Bad content drives out good, painfully close to home edition. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...”

Developing Policy & governance Signal 2d ago

Wake up call for congress lawmakers get big brother warning on ai

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Frank Pasquale: “Today, anyone with access to a frontier AI model can buy your data from a broker and reconstruct an intimate picture of your life, including your location, your purchases, your browsing history, a…
Marielza: "Besides building troves of personal information gleaned from commercial databases, the dossiers offer advice on potential ways to blackmail, coerce or stalk the individual..." 😱
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Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
LAUSD bans AI on school devices

LAUSD Bans Students From Using AI on School Devices

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

““The Los Angeles Unified Board is banning student access to AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets. The announcement comes after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to limit screen time for students in June.””

Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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Will the open internet survive the war on bots mapping the debate over ai preferences

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“I learned a lot from @bankston.bsky.social's long post on the debate over the AI Preferences technical standard, and strongly recommend it. It is among the most essential issues for the future of the internet and access to information. cdt.org/insights/wil...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Alex Engler: I learned a lot from @bankston.bsky.social's long post on the debate over the AI Preferences technical standard, and strongly recommend it. It is among the most essential issues for the future of t…
Alex Engler: The 'Google Zero' developments in recent months demonstrates the urgency too. Radically reduced traffic from Google to publishers makes the walling-off of high quality information ever-more likely.…
Michael Ekstrand: I learned a lot from @bankston.bsky.social's long post on the debate over the AI Preferences technical standard, and strongly recommend it. It is among the most essential issues for the future of t…
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Established Policy & governance Signal 17d ago

Oura Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Inaccurate AI Sleep Tracking - CNET

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

““The lawsuit alleges that Oura Ring‘s algorithms and sensors can’t detect the physiological signals required to accurately measure the details of the different stages of sleep. Instead, the suit alleges that Oura’s devices rely on ‘AI-generated guesses” tha…”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Hypervisible : “The lawsuit alleges that Oura Ring‘s algorithms and sensors can’t detect the physiological signals required to accurately measure the details of the different stages of sleep. Instead, the suit al…
Hypervisible : Complaint is here. Greatly interested if anyone wants to weigh in. clarksonlawfirm.com/wp-content/u...
Hagen Blix: So... it's not luxury surveillance after all?
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Established Policy & governance Development 16d ago
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Harvey AI post-training effort update

Update on Harvey's Post-Training Effort

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Legal startup Harvey's new AI model is built on Kimi K3, a Chinese open source model from Moonshot AI: "Harvey Tenet is a Kimi K3 base that we post-trained together with Fireworks research for long-horizon legal work." www.harvey.ai/blog/post-tr...”

Established Policy & governance Signal 10d ago
⚡ 42 h early

Chatgpt chats are being swept into civil criminal court cases

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...”

“SIR YOU ARE GENERATING A NEW INCRIMINATING ELECTRONIC RECORD TO CHECK IF YOU SUFFICIENTLY DELETED AN OLD INCRIMINATING ELECTRONIC RECORD!!! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...”

Established Culture, work & education Development 16d ago
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AI cheating detector trains on student papers

This company checks schoolwork for AI cheating. Now it wants to use students’ papers to train AI

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“PSA: Turnitin sucked from the start, this has always been part of their business model www.cardozolawreview.com/fairer-publi... san.com/cc/this-comp...”