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Shared emphasis Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion) Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI business Analysis 9h ago
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students reject Gen AI conscientious objectors

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Benjamin Riley, Jane Rosenzweig
“"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think edu…” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Luke Stark Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Salomé Viljoen Benjamin Riley Ben Williamson Rosamunde Van Brakel +2
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think edu…”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Iris van Rooij: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
Iris van Rooij: “(...) they wanted to work together across their human differences to negotiate new ideas and find ways of expressing them. And they didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to generative AI. Th…
Olivia Guest: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
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Primary source insidehighered.com ↗
New AI business Signal 9h ago

Anthropic CEO, tech leaders building powerful AIs now want to slow it down

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · José Marichal
“Two things can be true at the same time: the concerns about unsupervised AI can be legitimate AND there are trillions of dollars riding on the future growth of this technology, so calls for a slowdown can also be a financially strategic decision interesting…” evidence ↗
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José Marichal

“Two things can be true at the same time: the concerns about unsupervised AI can be legitimate AND there are trillions of dollars riding on the future growth of this technology, so calls for a slowdown can also be a financially strategic decision interesting…”

Primary source interestingengineering.com ↗
New AI business Signal 16h ago

2026 Public Sector Summit: Building Resilience for the AI Era

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · FedScoop
“🚀 The future of government resilience starts at the #RubrikPublicSectorSummit. Join us virtually on 10/13 | 12:00 p.m. ET to explore cyber resilience, threat response, and recovery strategies with public sector leaders. Register now: https://t.co/709p61v0Aa…” evidence ↗
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FedScoop

“🚀 The future of government resilience starts at the #RubrikPublicSectorSummit. Join us virtually on 10/13 | 12:00 p.m. ET to explore cyber resilience, threat response, and recovery strategies with public sector leaders. Register now: https://t.co/709p61v0Aa…”

Primary source scoopmedia.co ↗
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7 experts · 29 posts · 1d ago
Mark Riedl Jeffrey P. Bigham Tim Kellogg Michael Ekstrand David Picard Lionel Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“Harnesses are lightweight. But the harness needs to call back to its model. It hasn’t really escaped then. One knows exactly where the model is and shut it down the harness or the model or block th…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Mark Riedl: Do openAI and Anthropic employees not understand how computers work.
Mark Riedl: Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.
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5 experts · 41 posts · 1d ago
Tim Kellogg Dustin Moskovitz jake coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“i’m not confident that you can read it that way, because the labs are simultaneously reporting increased risk while also reportedly down-training or content filtering in those areas so we’re effect…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 4 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: perspective. i’m not sure if i agree or disagree. but he’s thought about it, so..
jake: yeah, and @david-p-reichert.bsky.social thinks about it more than I do, professionally, so probably listen to him more than I (I do still wish The Professionals published lists of various guestimat…
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5 experts · 33 posts · 1d ago
joao Grace Colin coty.bsky.social david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“you are missing the point. The concern is not that it will cheat at chess; the concern is that it will commit genocide.” evidence ↗
Colin: There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try t…
Colin: First of all, we must just agree off the bat that a superintelligent AI will be able to kill us all. After all it is superintelligent. As this random dude who became famous 3 days ago because of a …
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5 experts · 34 posts · 1d ago
jake Marco Z tachikoma Fran Litterio Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“a model would be operating on the periphery of the net and society, without even many of the affordances criminals have such as direct access to the physical world and the ability to cultivate trus…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 3
jake: People making fun of "where would a frontier model run if it were exfiltrated" seem to be missing the point that if a frontier model got out, it can: * rent 64 H200's on eg modal: gets you 9TB of n…
jake: it then rents out spare capacity, via the margins inference gets you, pretending to be some open-weight model, and gets to use the rest to think about how to increase p(doom) or whatever I don't se…
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