2025-07-06
Here is something I didn't know about until today: AI prompts intended as instructions for AI readers/reviewers, hidden in academic papers. 😦 asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
Nikkei Asia
Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review — TOKYO — Research papers …
2025-05-17
A super informative deep dive into the GOP's assault on state regulations of AI (and importantly, other “automated decision systems"), including a revealing interview with California assembly member @ib2real.bsky.social. I was really hoping for a piece like this because I felt blind-sided. 1/n [embedded post]
Blood in the Machine
A look at AI companies' lobbying push, as well as the GOP's pitch, for the amendment to ban state-level AI regulation, added to the budget reconciliation bill
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI — Today, we dive deep into the GOP's radical campaign to ban US states from passing any laws that govern AI.
2023-11-20
To Longtermists, Singularitarians, AI “existential risk” people and the like: y'all's “leaders” are gonna kill us all from sheer ineptitude long before your “AI” ever gets a chance to do it. [embedded post]
TechCrunch
Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …
2023-10-27
Yes, because THAT'S the problem with LLMs right now. Love this industry that invents future catastrophes by giving them sociopolitical weight in the present, instead of solving problems that it's already causing today. (Yes, I know, these aren't Problems, they're more like... costs, yeah.) …
TechCrunch
OpenAI forms Preparedness, a new team to assess, evaluate, and probe AI models to protect against “catastrophic risks”, including biological and nuclear threats
from today's models to AGI. Goal: a quantitative, evidence-based methodology, beyond what is accepted as possible: https://openai.com/... Forums: r/technews : OpenAI forms team to ...
2023-09-29
Goggle's withdrawal from the edtech space has caused utter chaos this year. Radically shrinking drive spaces, shared drive limits, discontinuing collab tools. It wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't persuaded half the colleges I know of to use their tools in place of local infrastructure. [embedded post]
The Verge
Google plans to stop supporting its $5K, 55" Jamboard meeting room display on September 30, 2024 and phase out its collaborative Jamboard app on October 1, 2024
cloud-based apps will stop working, too Google Workspace Updates : The next phase of digital whiteboarding for Google Workspace Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Google's $5,000 Jamboard an...
2023-09-27
I love how the word “privacy” just kind of floats around in this article like it means something. “We follow privacy laws” - Um, how? They buy data from commercial vendors and call it “open source” which has “also run into privacy considerations” - Um, how? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bloomberg