“"AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact." A nice corrective in Jacobin by @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n...”
“jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n... “AI is a machine that takes good jobs and makes them precarious. It’s a machine for turning stable employment into gig work””
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Eugene Vinitsky: I think it's reasonable to ask of a research program that purports to automate away all jobs that it provide a positive vision of the future more confident than "hey, maybe we'll "cure" cancer alon…
Eugene Vinitsky: I've been talking about this a lot lately and it just feels like the moral cases in the field are significantly less developed than they should be and it's eating at me a bit
Juan Diego Rodriguez: This eats at me all the time. I don’t know what to do about it
““According to the lawsuit, the team working on MAYA [the clinic’s ai assistant] deleted unflattering test results, mischaracterized the tool’s abilities, and made decisions that put data security in jeopardy.””
“The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism…”
““The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT had assured Scott Winters that the early warning signs of his health crisis were “not something dangerous,” and had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice, instead telling him to trust that ‘God did not design your body t…”
“The spiraling shape will make you go insane. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...”
““Sooner or later, elite schools are going to realize that an analog education carries more prestige than an AI-assisted one & will retool their curricula..to reflect that prejudice. This has .. already happened with screens in elementary and secondary educa…”
“This story credits Member of the European Parliament @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org to call on Costa to "convene a special European Council summit dedicated to artificial intelligence as soon as possible." www.politico.eu/article/euro...”
“You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2026/07/23/d... 16/”
“Returning to this thread after a busy week, now that I've had time to read your "stochastic flocks" piece. Link here, just in case anyone else is following: www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-f... >>”
“This article managed to annoy all sides, but there are good technical explanations of why this kind of system would be capable of finding vulnerabilities & writing functional code. Rigorous critiques of AI are systemic, it holds up even when it “does things…”
“Abir Harrasse, Michael Lan, Hunar Batra, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Chaithanya Bandi Reasoning Fine-Tuning Induces Persistent Latent Policy States https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18532”
“A study reveals that reasoning fine-tuning transforms models by inducing richer latent-policy structures, enhancing multi-step reasoning through improved dynamics. This boost in performance offers fresh insights into how models handle complex reasoning task…”
“Facial recognition technology supplied by a Spanish firm and largely banned in the EU is running on around 4,000 cameras across India, Investigate Europe reports.”
“China is trying to regulate how we have relationships with AI over concerns it's affecting society - but will it work? My latest for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2580...”
“Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger argue that as AI erodes job markets, it exposes the reality that the crisis facing young people "was never primarily technological, but political." Time to rethink what education is for, they say.”
“For decades we regarded the Internet as infrastructure used primarily by people. Following the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, Konstantinos Komaitis argues AI agents challenge that assumption—and AI governance can no longer stay separate from Internet governa…”
“The largest copyright infringement payout ever was approved this week. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work across ~500,000 works ($1.5 billion) to settle claims it illegally downloaded them to train Claude. Ironic given Anthropic’s recent complaints about ot…”
“Cory Doctorow makes this case in this essay: pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/p...”
“You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/p... 21/”
“Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.”
“The Contrastive On-Policy Distillation (COPD) framework improves AI reasoning efficiency, enabling models to learn concise strategies. It contrasts outputs in light and heavy thinking contexts, enhancing performance across nine multimodal benchmarks. https:…”
“Researchers proposed RRPO, a reinforcement learning method using contrastive comparisons for policy optimization without strict correctness signals. RRPO competes with traditional verifier-based methods and enhances stability. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18470”
Stella Biderman: If you believe their story, OpenAI accidentally committed cyber warfare against Hugging Face while doing what they thought was an internal test of a model without internet access. In six months tim…
Stella Biderman: If EleutherAI did this, I would be in jail. If DeepSeek did this, the government would consider it an act of cyber warfare. To be clear, this is the appropriate response. But the combination of OAI…
Eugene Vinitsky: Has a chess player ever tried to beat a model by learning to mimic a best response to the model? Doesn‘t seem impossible?
Eugene Vinitsky: It’s obviously uninteresting in the single model case since they presumably have deterministic exploits but maybe there’s a transferable strategy. Platonic hypothesis of chess models or something
Casey Fiesler: A common Q I get on social media is: how do I get into tech/AI ethics as a field/for a job? I would love some help with this! What is some helpful advice here that (a) is not about academia or even…
Casey Fiesler: What kinds of jobs would you point folks to after that?
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