Accelerating
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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”
Accelerating
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Signal
4h ago
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Concern & critique
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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”
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“another one, isn't a bit surprising that it looks like OpenAI itself did not had a head start in using coding agents? openai.com/index/resear...”
“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”
Accelerating
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3h 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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4h 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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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...”
twelve US state companion bot laws
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Twelve states now have "companion bot" laws aimed at reducing risks, particularly for minors. Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson of DLA Piper analyze the substantive provisions and identify four overarching principles for AI providers. buff.ly/qt…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
““Washington’s law goes furthest by requiring providers to prevent chatbots from expressly representing themselves as human to any user, whereas this requirement exists in several other states only for minor users.” techpolicy.press/what-12-stat...”
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.”
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AI criticism insufficient essay
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“shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck... this is pretty good because it is aware of the rhetorical genre that it occupies”
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5h ago
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“This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net”
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Development
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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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AI CSAM charge dismissed court
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“I talked to @rebeccaruiz.bsky.social about how the 7th Circuit followed clear Supreme Court precedent in holding that there is a First Amendment right to possess virtual CSAM, and how and why this could change mashable.com/tech/ai-gene...”
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NeurIPS August 2026 newsletter
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“The NeurIPS 2026 August Newsletter is now available on our blog: blog.neurips.cc/2026/09/05/n... If you would like to receive these newsletters directly by email, please subscribe to the newsletter mailing list under your profile: neurips.cc/Profile/subs...”
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“Great Hard Fork episode with Ajeya Cotra on the on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. The revelations are nuts. Unaligned agents collaborating, conspiring, cheating and covering up their traces. This should be a wake up call. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtmU...”
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“AI data centers are transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash www.cnbc.com/2026/09/06/a...”
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5h ago
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“– https://t.co/qX3U68aXMd Title: "Reason Wide, Not Deep: Amortizing the Reasoning Premium into Distilled Skills"”
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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…”
Amazon Mechanical Turk platform closes
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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...”
