Students "deserve curricula that recognize the full scope of their humanity, outside of their roles as consumers and users of technology, and they deserve an education that allows them to explore the myriad ways their lives and choices are connected to others"
NYC friends what are you doing on Thursday April 30? How about joining me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for our first ever live taping of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000?
www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-ai...
This is GREAT! Thanks for the work!!
Learn about the "AI-as-Amplifier Paradox" at #CHI2026. Skill amplification? Or skill erosion? Or both? (CHI Honorable Mention Paper)
📢 The workshop on Insights from negative results will be back at EMNLP'26!
Your most-insightful failures can be submitted in 4 pages by June 25. It's also possible to commit short papers reviewed through ARR.
insights-workshop.github.io/2026/cfp
Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social
and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con.
Register here:
virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is
It’s classic tech culture.
Chinese government decides to regulate AI from the right to personal likeness, child safety and addiction angles.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Tech makers assure parents that child safety AI keeps kids safe. The open secret? No one can say how well it works - a supply chain of ignorance that puts lives at risk.
New w/ @camillefrancois.bsky.social @mmitchell.bsky.social @yjernite.bsky.social Vinay Rao
www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-model...
today, @roost.tools is joining @yjernite.bsky.social, @mmitchell.bsky.social, and @natematias.bsky.social to call for more transparency in the field of online child safety, and for model cards for key child safety models specifically.
www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-model...
Careful about that “Document” injection there—this is classic comms strategy. It is not saying that customer data is not used to train AI systems.
🚨Paper on AI & Copyright
Courts have credited AI companies' claims that alignment prevents reproducing copyrighted data.
What if finetuning on a simple writing task breaks it.
Worse: tuning on just one author (e.g., Murakami) unlocks verbatim recall of 30+ other authors' books (up to 90%)
(1/n)🧵
this piece articulates some really important insights, but I have issues with the core frame presented in this paragraph
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
That’s a brilliant way of putting things!
Seriously what is going on with octopuses
Get a job and stop bumming rides from other organisms!
www.popsci.com/environment/...
🤖 Interesting study about relying on increased automation. Beyond cognitive offloading, *cognitive surrender* involves thinking system output is basically your own thought…analytical skills degrading all the while.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🪶 Pileated woodpecker on my walk today. Chillin’ on a Doug Fir, next to a Madrone.
Even if you're pro-AI, Anthropic themselves have said that using AI when learning means you don't develop skills
You need those skills later to debug the LLM's output or prompt it more effectively to fix something. These students are gonna struggle as soon as they have to do something harder.
If you worked as a woman engineer from 1975 to today—or know a woman who did—submit an essay for consideration to the Women in Engineering anthology.
Call closes June 30, 2026. Details & submission form: forms.gle/Bh5AQVAXn9E8...
#WomenInSTEM #EngineeringCareers #WomensHistory
I keep having to tell students that the true "product" on a homework, essay, or test is not the completed assignment, it's the brain that has gone through the thinking required to complete the assignment.
If you are interesting in having a nuanced conversation of a specific type of automation, I recommend naming the specific type of automation.
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I'm cool with that!
👨🎨 Spoiler alert: Banksy's identity has been uncovered. It is not the Massive Attack guy. I'm not too happy about his identity being disclosed, I really liked the mystery.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
I had a similar situation, but sort of the reverse.
You may want to check it out, though.
medium.com/@margarmitch...
Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in this one hour panel with @karenhao.bsky.social and John Palfrey.
You can find the recording at www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM8...
Three-quarters of a century later, the answer looks like ‘yes’. In March 2025, the large language model (LLM) GPT-4.5, developed by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, was judged by humans in a Turing test to be human 73% of the time — more often than actual humans were2. Moreover, readers even preferred literary texts generated by LLMs over those written by human experts
behold... "llms can produce human like text, thus llms have human-level intelligence"
(disclaimer: don’t expect anything but snarky comments from me today)
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Love Turing’s “this is absurd.”
I think scientific writing used to have a lot more personality.
