Our paper (below) showed that AI auto-complete writing assistants can shift your attitude about the topics you write about. But @advaitmb.bsky.social was wondering: what in the writing process triggers this shift? He set out to investigate in our 🥁new #chi2026 paper🥁. Spoiler: mental hijacking. 1/

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Guardian article on the new paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

Als we ‘veilige’ AI ‘goed’ leren gebruiken, zouden we efficiënter en gelukkiger kunnen worden. Dat is de belofte. Maar die gaat voorbij aan de problematische eigenschappen van kunstmatige intelligente. En aan het belang van herhaling. 👉 buff.ly/TCzV4Is

Six-panel composite figure. Caption: Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices. Rowwise from top left to bottom right: A. Aegeus consults the oracle at Delphi (cup from Vulci, 440-430 BCE). B. Byzantine mosaic depicting the zodiac, from the floor of the 6th century CE Beth Alpha synagogue. C. One-sided sense-making in an experimental psychotherapy session, (McHugh 1968). D. Still from a BBC documentary showing a person interacting with ELIZA via a computer terminal, late 1960s. E. Researchers interacting with the PARC copier (Suchman 2007 [1987]). F. Screenshot of large language model chat interface, 2026.

New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Why do Anthropic engineers talk to Claude as a witch-doctor to his potions? How is prompt engineering like spider divination? Can one reason without reasons?

ft. Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman, Weizenbaum & many more ☺️

Exactly the kind of debate I’d like for us to dive into more often!

Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios Model-based scenarios are widely used to guide energy planning and climate policy decisions. While the mathematical and physical foundations of many t…

Energy modelling sits at the crossroads of hard science & messy reality. So what is it then, art or science? And does it matter?

Our new paper explores how 160+ energy modellers view truth & objectivity in their work. Spoiler: it’s rarely pure & never simple.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...