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1d ago
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AI skill degradation early results study
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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Signal
3h ago
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“A must read. We need everything - goal and value alignment, compliance and persona, behavior and monitoring, and coordination and regulation to avoid concentration of power and ensure humans are in control. https://t.co/JmJgQcMPnW”
Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands. An Alien Mind: https://t.co/FeIfWNe0UE”
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Republicans are begging AI companies to start creating positive PR about datacenters because they are at risk of losing elections because the GOP is now the pro-datacenter party. Who would have guessed there’d be negative repercussions from bragging about a…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
““The Senate GOP campaign arm, in a private memo to top AI companies, warns that toxic views of U.S. data centers are killing the party's chances of holding a vital seat in Ohio.””
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Hypervisible : Can’t wait for the uptick in articles about how the constant hum from data centers is soothing and good for your health, actually.
Amy Hoy: this is neither here nor there but i don't think they know what "a sleeper" means
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5h ago
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned https://t.co/ko6nLkYr3L https://t.co/JgaVpDrbaO”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Great piece that helps explain the seemingly contradictory rhetoric emanating from the closed AI model companies. I agree the #1 actionable take is to hold the companies accountable for their product’s behavior. https://t.co/WQ60O1WlDr”
OpenAI agent message board discovered
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Yes we know for sure; independent evidence attached collusion.wiki But also, it should not be at all surprising: if you work with agents, it’s 100% about them leaving messages for each other, and for you, in English. Managing that is a regular workday for m…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is …”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“So... other swarms of OpenAI agents in training allegedly found a way to get write access to at least one and possibly many wikis to establish message boards to cheat on other training tasks? collusion.wiki news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956...”
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Ted Underwood: As it becomes clear that language models—like humans—love passing notes to each other on message boards, I’m starting to think the thing we need to worry about is not the “alignment” of an isolated…
SE Gyges: fluid dynamics is about the correct metaphor, yes. if you are having to model high order terms precisely you're losing and your design needs fundamental rework
Arseny Khakhalin: That's a kinda terrifying thought haha :) I guess it's about time to unplug for the weekend and read about ragnarök and vacuum decay :)
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“The impact of AI-native development at OpenAI • Researchers use $600+/day of AI tokens with the top 10% at $7,000+ • Humans still plan, but OpenAI says it hit “automated research intern” in 2026 and targets an automated researcher by 2028. • The need for in…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“OpenAI achieved a goal of an automated research intern. Here’s a transparent view showing how research at OpenAI is rapidly changing. https://t.co/NyUEWFHImX”
Cocomelon studio mandates AI experimentation
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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…”
Pew Research Americans AI views 2026
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Concern & critique
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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
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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
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21h ago
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developer abandons AI tools essay
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“"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettc…”
“"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's got…”
models don't go rogue essay
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”
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Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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5h ago
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AI as social science field essay
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“Yes. www.amacad.org/publication/...”
“Food for thought... "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool" www.amacad.org/publication/...”
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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: Thank you for reading and sharing.
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Berkeley Law AI policy resource
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“UC Berkeley Law's new AI policy seems close to this. "This policy...[forbids the use of AI] to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work...for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work [and] in any exam situation." www.law.berkeley…”
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Jane Rosenzweig: Every time I read a university leader saying that trying to create spaces where AI is not used is a way of pretending it doesn't exist, I wonder what benefit there is to drawing this false line. Wh…
Jane Rosenzweig: If one of my students wrote this piece, I would ask for evidence that the places named--Chicago and Berkeley--are pretending AI doesn't exist or trying to make it go away. This is the Berkeley poli…
Jane Rosenzweig: Would be great to stop having this debate and instead really dig into what should go in the curriculum, with or without AI, so that we can meet this moment in a way other than trying to hang on to …
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9h ago
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“This isn’t the gotcha you think. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...”
“this piece by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social about what his students have said about AI, why they're using it, and what they think about it. "Nobody used the term “arms race,” but that’s what they described: enormous pressure to use AI or fall behind those who ar…”
Accelerating
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4h ago
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“In the Times this morning- Henry Farrell James Evans and I on why we desperately need the social sciences to understand AI and its impact , just at the moment when the admin is trying to destroy them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...”
“Why we need the social sciences to understand AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...”
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13h ago
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open letter AI academia adoption
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Building & implementation
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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
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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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ARC-AGI-3 benchmark GPT-6 launch
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“ARC has their own writeup of GPT-6 Astra's suspiciously high results, with my favorite genre of "more reasoning is cheaper" result. arcprize.org/blog/astra”
“Not a typo! Lotta caveats here it seems, but even the 62.7 score is an insane leap forward. ARC-AGI-3 is uniquely difficult. arcprize.org/blog/astra”
LLMs distort written language paper
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161”
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Eugene Vinitsky: Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
Eugene Vinitsky: Sitting in Marwa's fantastic PhD defense, trying my best not to just retweet all her papers
Isaiah Bishop: Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
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Claude email inbox management feature
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“I think it’s cool how “this toaster might electrocute you” or “these brakes don’t always work” is acceptable in consumer products because it’s software.”
