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Shared emphasis Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion) Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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New AI business Analysis 4h ago
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students reject Gen AI conscientious objectors

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Luke Stark Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Salomé Viljoen Benjamin Riley Ben Williamson Rosamunde Van Brakel +2
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
Shared emphasis

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think edu…”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Iris van Rooij: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
Iris van Rooij: “(...) they wanted to work together across their human differences to negotiate new ideas and find ways of expressing them. And they didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to generative AI. Th…
Olivia Guest: "The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model…
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New AI field signal Analysis 12h ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

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

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“I suppose it's this that's most useful here. Thanks for tagging me! olivia.science/ai”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
Olivia Guest: Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/
Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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New Agents & robotics Development 2h ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 SE Gyges Colin Pavel Doll +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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New AI field signal Signal 2h ago

AI hypervigilance is now an omnipresent cognitive load for your users

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Pavel

“In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention? Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to u…”

Primary source productpicnic.beehiiv.com ↗
Developing Safety & security Analysis 2d ago
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cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay

It's Not Just X. It's Y.

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Pavel Stefanie Hane

“That’s good to hear, because I wrote more about it! :) mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...”

“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”

5 experts discussed this · 23 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: This may be considered spicy but as someone who wrote a paper in 2022 that put this idea into the world (re: image models) the LLM is not merely reflecting what people say on the Internet anymore; …
Eryk Salvaggio: It parrots the structure of how we discuss ideas to arrive at conclusions. They have abstracted that form of conversation into something a model can work with. But "it was obviously in the training…
Eryk Salvaggio: But all that is pretty confusing if you're stuck on the idea that language is thinking. The paradigm shift is that these models made unthinking erudition possible, and we have to grapple with under…
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Primary source mail.cyberneticforests.com ↗
Established Models & releases Analysis 5d ago
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LLM math proofs function critique

The function of LLM-based math "proofs"

7 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru Luke Stark tante Pavel pngwn.at
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“@tante.cc: 'Those “proofs” are about narrative building. Which is why especially people with no b/g in math keep using them as definite proof of LLMs being “more than just stochastic language models” which is just factually untrue and the mark of deeply uns…”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“I see a lot of conjecture on what is going on inside AI labs and attributing malice or cynicism where there isn’t any direct evidence for it. There is no doubt that the leadership saw a marketing opportunity in these cases but that isn’t why the work is don…”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Alex Hanna: @tante.cc: 'Those “proofs” are about narrative building. Which is why especially people with no b/g in math keep using them as definite proof of LLMs being “more than just stochastic language model…
Luke Stark: @tante.cc: 'Those “proofs” are about narrative building. Which is why especially people with no b/g in math keep using them as definite proof of LLMs being “more than just stochastic language model…
Alex Hanna: This replicates the way that people talk about "AI" and cancer, or AlphaFold and materials engineering. This is narrative work, and researchers are embroiled in jurisdictional and resourcing battle…
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Primary source tante.cc ↗
Established Models & releases Resource 3d ago
LLM intellectual pre-history workshop

International Workshop: Intellectual Furniture. A (Pre-)History of Large Language Models Assisted Thinking A Deep History of AI

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Shannon Mattern Pavel

“Over the next two days I'm participating virtually in a conference in Basel abt "intellectual furniture," devices for information organization that predate LLMs. I'm focusing on inertia apparatae — furnishings for inefficiency, repose, and refusal 😈 www.ass…”

Primary source assisted-thinking.ch ↗
Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 3 posts · 6d ago
Luke Stark Anthony Moser Pavel
Pavel: Second hand embarrassed for all lawyers that in the end, they could not financially ruin the entire AI industry
Luke Stark: Second hand embarrassed for all lawyers that in the end, they could not financially ruin the entire AI industry
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2 experts · 3 posts · 5d ago
Anthony Moser Pavel
Pavel: Missed two weeks of newsletter in a row. The piece is nearly done but I can't bring myself to write about AI again. What else is going on in UX that isn't just "your TV is now pervert glasses?"
Anthony Moser: i miss having other complaints
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2 experts · 2 posts · 5d ago
Pavel Abstract Tesseract
Pavel: Woman loudly talking on the phone: "Well I put it into ChatGPT to optimize our weekend and that's what it came up with. So you're just going to have to figure it out." Hanging up, complaining to he…
Abstract Tesseract: Not to diagnose people via skeet but it really does feel like chatbots could have been grown in a lab to exacerbate the worst tendencies of narcissistic parents
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