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“Hey @nytimes.com, can we meet privately over at camera 2? Listen, I know you need to attract eyeballs, & “rogue actors” are like catnip to the public, but calling AI systems “rogue” is a dereliction of duty. They’re not rogue—they’re operating w/in the poor…”
Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Not looking good for #OpenAI. I’m guessing they will slow things down, especially if investors get spooked. Each incident disclosed is worse than the previous one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“Gift link to latest on ‘unexpected’ developments with generative AI: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...”
Amnesty International generative AI human rights report
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."”
Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“> Without significant changes to how these systems are developed and deployed, they will continue to undermine international human rights laws and standards. www. amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This is a pretty good report overall. Hard to dis…”
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James Grimmelmann: I know people who do a shitload of web scraping without the consent of the people whose servers and personal data are being scraped. And do you know why they do it? To document human rights violati…
James Grimmelmann: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
Adverb: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
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critical AI essay olivia science
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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fraudster jailed AI streaming fraud
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Bad content drives out good. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...”
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“@jzl86 @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind @Miles_Brundage @rodneyabrooks OK two more more recent papers then: https://t.co/GRGkE3juP8 Do we collaborate with what we design?”
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Pavel: Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, an…
Ali Alkhatib: that colleague who traumatized data workers during their training period, produces deepfakes of unwilling women, has no connection to reality like you or me, and CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: In my last real “tech” job I was the designated guy who took all of the code the super-prolific “distinguished engineer” generated without any planning and put into production over the weekend, to …
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AI Pascal's Wager risk essay
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“"Which is to say: not choosing or trying to choose a middle ground is basically full support of generated code, but slower. It is effectively choosing position 1 (pro-AI) without being explicit about it. It is either naive or hypocritical." https://ploum.ne…”
“That's the other thing — AI use turns away people, but avoiding AI turns away no one, so it's always safer to say no ploum.net/2026-10-01-p...”
LLMs as normal technology essay
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“That one was in the latest newsletter, yeah. Muse in general is such a perfect case in point for what happens when you try to make *everything* AI.”
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Meta Muse user data collection concern
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“It’s not that data brokers and social media companies haven’t been building profiles on people for ages, but it’s worth noting how they are now trying to normalize this by touting it as a benefit rather than the creepy and invasive function that it is.”
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There deadsimpletech tool
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““There's little that's "inevitable" about AI | deadSimpleTech” https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/llms-arent-inevitable > The inevitability of LLMs, therefore, is of a piece with the inevitability of chemical weapons. Weak players who are fighting other weak p…”
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17d ago
friction-free racism technology essay
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“The result is the same result as all other algo-washing: lossless pass-through of the biases and inequalities of the world directly into your decision-making.”
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11d ago
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Burry AI bubble burst warning
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“Same investor who shorted housing ahead of the 2008 crash is now shorting AI”
Workday AI hiring tools discrimination lawsuit
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“Incidentally, that is illegal! You will get sued, and "ChatGPT told me this was ok" is not going to be an effective defense!”
