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Accelerating AI research Development 19h ago
OpenAI math proofs disrupt MIT academics

What’s the point of MIT? OpenAI’s math proofs have thrown students and researchers into chaos. - The Boston Globe

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““It was harder to find other students to pull all-nighters with to work on the notoriously hard problem sets. A few years ago, that wouldn’t have been a consideration, but now Claude or ChatGPT can spit out a fairly accurate answer in minutes.” www.bostongl…”

“"What is the point of MIT?" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/15/m...”

New AI field signal Signal 20h ago

sciencedirect.com

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““Explanation rights have largely been formulated as sector-specific compliance obligations rather than as expressions of a broader constitutional commitment to reasoned decision-making. This siloed development of explanation rights contributes to fragmentat…”

New AI research Research 21h ago
AI upending systems research paper

Barbarians at the Gate:How AI is Upending Systems Research

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““AI is starting to transform the research process by automating the discovery of new solutions. Given a task, the typical AI-driven approach is (i) to generate a set of diverse solutions, and then (ii) to verify these solutions and select one that solves th…”

New AI field signal Analysis 21h ago
AI in healthcare Nature Medicine essay

Making AI work in healthcare - Nature Medicine

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““AI performance may deteriorate over time. Shah et al. found that model iterations and changes in electronic record documentation could lead to performance drift, after deployment of their ChatEHR AI system.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

New AI field signal Analysis 21h ago
Nature Medicine AI healthcare guidance

Making AI work in healthcare - Nature Medicine

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““AI performance may deteriorate over time. Shah et al. found that model iterations and changes in electronic record documentation could lead to performance drift, after deployment of their ChatEHR AI system.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
AI spectacle world takeover essay

The Spectacle of AI taking over the world - The European Review of Books

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“The math dump’s main “purpose is to produce an effect of propaganda and stupefaction, relying on scientific illiteracy and on its uncritical amplification by the media echo chamber. To produce its propaganda effect, it erases…hundreds of researchers…” europ…”

Established Models & releases Signal 3d ago

Mathematicians respond openai release

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““Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community…”

““Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/s...”

Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

theatlantic.com

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““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”

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Frank Pasquale: “According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, human…
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD: what worries me is that Sanders seems to accept the broligarchs’ claim that the Computer God they say they’re building is actually possible. I agree it’s normative a bad idea, but I also think it’s…
Luke Stark: “According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, human…
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

theatlantic.com

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““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”

Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
sex AI apocalypse essay

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

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“Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....”

“Och orkar man inte läsa en hel bok så kan man läsa även här: www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...”

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Timnit Gebru: Shared this before (thank you @lizthegrey.com). Read up everyone because this is what's happening. www.iankduncan.com/personal/202....
Timnit Gebru: Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. P…
Timnit Gebru: "In 2025 the book he co-wrote with MIRI’s executive director, Nate Soares, about why superhuman AI would kill us all, made the New York Times bestseller list." The New York Times, amplifying eugeni…
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Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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book publishers AI staff revolt

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

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“Good info to know who not to publish with if you have choices”

““We’ve been making valid business cases for years to be paid a healthy salary, and instead they spent that money on software …The average entry-level salary for New York City publishing employees at the Big Five and Scholastic was $47,583 in 2023” www.wired…”