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New Culture, work & education Research 3h 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.
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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...”

New AI field signal Development 13h ago
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open letter AI academia adoption

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their na…”

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Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
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New Culture, work & education Development 7h ago
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Amazon Mechanical Turk platform closes

Mechanical Turk is Closing. The Workers Who Built AI Are Still Here

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“Data workers will lose vital income when Amazon's Mechanical Turk shuts down. Krystal Kauffmann calls for lawmakers to protect AI's hidden workforce. buff.ly/qOfG2tu”

“Wow: www.techpolicy.press/mechanical-t...”

New Culture, work & education Signal 5h ago

Speak for Me: Giving LLMs the Situational Awareness to Participate in a Meeting

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“Speak for Me: Giving LLMs the Situational Awareness to Participate in a Meeting Muneeb Khan, Frederic Kirstein, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp https://t.co/aWOLwrMie3 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝙻] 💬Accepted at EMNLP 2026 Main https://t.co/BHfdbuF9cy”

New Culture, work & education Signal 6h ago

Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study

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“Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study Mark Solms, St John Grimbly, Bruce Bassett, Evert Boonstra, Rowan Hodson, Nicolas Kuske, Kival Mahadew, Benjamin Rosman, Charel van Hoof, Jonathan Shock https://t.co/sp4o2l6LUv [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚚-…”

New Culture, work & education Development 21h ago
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Cocomelon studio mandates AI experimentation

Cocomelon's Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.' www.404media.co/cocomelons-s...”

“New: the studio behind Cocomelon is telling its artists to start using AI, according to documents seen by 404 Media. Moonbug, the studio that makes Cocomelon, one of the most important children's entertainment studios on the planet www.404media.co/cocomelon…”

New Culture, work & education Analysis 10h ago
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Labor Day AI fair employment prescription

A Labor Day Prescription for Preserving Fair Employment in the Digital Age

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How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing policy & governance.
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Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“AI hiring tools can reject qualified people "for reasons no one—including the employer—can adequately explain," warns NYU School of Law senior affiliated research scholar and former EEOC chair Charlotte A. Burrows. She says gutting disparate impact law make…”

New Culture, work & education Signal 7h ago

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot

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“The second question is interesting in the narrow case of using AI as a form of piracy to reproduce copyrighted work. Summarizing a news article is a much harder argument. If a summary that substitutes for reading the original is copyright infringement, that…”

New Culture, work & education Research 8h ago
CauseCollab collaborative perception paper

CauseCollab: Causal Unified and Modality-Agnostic Network for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception

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“CauseCollab: Causal Unified and Modality-Agnostic Network for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception Weize Li, Yang Li, Quan Yuan, Xiaoyuan Fu, Guiyang Luo, Jinglin Li https://t.co/oxhYXvkhX4 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] 💬Accepted at ICML 2026 https://t.co/zRmKmHCMQ7”

New Culture, work & education Research 9h ago
creative AI model governance paper

Govern the Model, Not Only the Data: Storage, Circulation, and Learning in Creative AI

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“Govern the Model, Not Only the Data: Storage, Circulation, and Learning in Creative AI Phoenix Perry, George Simms, Elizabeth Wilson, Yasmine Boudiaf, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Tega Brain, R. Luke DuBois, Alix Rule, Rachel Meade Smith, … https://t.co/uEAqO6cDYF [𝚌𝚜…”

New Compute & infrastructure Research 11h ago
AI energy data center paper

Artificial Intelligence for Energy Optimization in Data Centers

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“Artificial Intelligence for Energy Optimization in Data Centers Mohammed Basharath Ullah, Summaiya Unnisa Begum, Mohammed Nadeem Ullah https://t.co/VJ9MjK7aK3 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶] https://t.co/zY1cH1c0Pn”

New AI field signal Analysis 9h ago
AI public sphere German essay

Künst­liche Intel­li­genz und Öffentlichkeit

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“«Künstliche Intelligenz und Öffentlichkeit» – über Felix Stalders neuen Artikel bei @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social freue ich mich besonders. Nicht nur, weil kaum jemand sonst im deutschsprachigen Raum so lesenswert & erhellend über die «Epistemologie der KI» un…”

New Culture, work & education Development 14h ago
ChatGPT Roblox face EU AI Act implementation

ChatGPT, Roblox Face Tough EU Rules. Implementation Is the Hard Part

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“The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Roblox a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA on Aug. 31. Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat on what the obligations require and why implementation is the hard part. buff.ly/jmfZrfW”

New Culture, work & education Research 20h ago
AI teaching assistant personalization paper

A Prompt-Engineering Approach to Develop Scalable, Flexible, and Real-Time Hybrid Micro-Level Personalization in a General Purpose AI Teaching Assistant

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“A Prompt-Engineering Approach to Develop Scalable, Flexible, and Real-Time Hybrid Micro-Level Personalization in a General Purpose AI Teaching Assistant Saptarshi Basu, Sandeep Kakar, Ashok Goel https://t.co/L5NdbS7vzj [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] https://t.co/NfsjG7UdWP”

New Culture, work & education Research 22h ago
Microsoft GPT-4 AGI sparks paper

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 - Microsoft Research

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“Sparks of AGI was a remarkably prescient paper that got a lot of pushback at the time, but absolutely sensed where the vibes were heading with LLMs based on a lot of qualitative experiments. It deserves credit in retrospect. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...”

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3 experts · 37 posts · 23h ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈: very obvious why Canadians feel this way now but Americans still need to internalize how bad the PR damage of the last 2 years has been and how hard it is going to be to rebuild trust
Isaiah Bishop: i keep saying this, but like public statements and commitments from dems would mean a lot. its been hard to find ones that dont also sound incredibly craven about pricing
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3 experts · 28 posts · 19h ago
tweety fish: lol I mean come the fuck on man. Of course it fucking is. If you hate AI enough to avoid any software coded using it—fine! supportable! go with god!—then at least use a fucking modicum of critical …
tweety fish: “Wow this would probably take like a hundred+ hours of work if you weren’t using AI and is super polished and elaborate and was made and released on a lark, not going to think about that any furthe…
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