zeynep tufekci
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
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I have a short piece about what I've learned from teaching my AI course in this @chronicle.com forum on how AI is changing higher ed, along with some very interesting reflections from others, including a lovely piece on why writing matters by @zey.bsky.social . www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
www.chronicle.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I have a short piece about what I've learned from teaching my AI course in this @chronicle.com forum on how AI is changing higher ed, along with some very interesting reflections from others, including a lovely piece on why writing matters by @zey.bsky.social . www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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Tomorrow's frontpage
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Tomorrow's frontpage
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AI and the Future of Work (10/7/25). It's a wrap!
Thanks to our expert panelists: @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social.
#AI. Who will win and who will lose? How worried should we be? Stay tuned for the video, coming soon.
Thanks to our expert panelists: @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social.
#AI. Who will win and who will lose? How worried should we be? Stay tuned for the video, coming soon.
October 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
AI and the Future of Work (10/7/25). It's a wrap!
Thanks to our expert panelists: @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social.
#AI. Who will win and who will lose? How worried should we be? Stay tuned for the video, coming soon.
Thanks to our expert panelists: @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social.
#AI. Who will win and who will lose? How worried should we be? Stay tuned for the video, coming soon.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Egyptian authorities announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by state TV.
Egypt announces pardon for top activist who's spent 6 years behind bars
Egyptian authorities on Monday announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by Egypt’s state TV.
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September 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Egyptian authorities announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by state TV.
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Social Media Reduced Two Horrific Killings to Cheap Snuff Films
By Zeynep Tufekci
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
By Zeynep Tufekci
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | Social Media Reduced Two Horrific Killings to Cheap Snuff Films
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Social Media Reduced Two Horrific Killings to Cheap Snuff Films
By Zeynep Tufekci
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
By Zeynep Tufekci
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
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Egypt's president Sisi has ordered authorities to study the possible pardon of Egyptian-British activist and blogger, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has already served an unjust 5 year sentence www.reuters.com/world/uk/egy...
Egypt's Sisi orders authorities to study pardon for activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered authorities on Tuesday to study the possible pardon of high-profile Egyptian-British activist and blogger, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a statement by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights said.
www.reuters.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Egypt's president Sisi has ordered authorities to study the possible pardon of Egyptian-British activist and blogger, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has already served an unjust 5 year sentence www.reuters.com/world/uk/egy...
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Pssst ... @zey.bsky.social let me know when that other moment approaches!
Highlighted part in your last graf is what we do at Starling Lab, an academic research program based jointly at Stanford + USC. So happy you're casting a light on this emerging field of authenticity. We share your concerns!
Highlighted part in your last graf is what we do at Starling Lab, an academic research program based jointly at Stanford + USC. So happy you're casting a light on this emerging field of authenticity. We share your concerns!
August 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Pssst ... @zey.bsky.social let me know when that other moment approaches!
Highlighted part in your last graf is what we do at Starling Lab, an academic research program based jointly at Stanford + USC. So happy you're casting a light on this emerging field of authenticity. We share your concerns!
Highlighted part in your last graf is what we do at Starling Lab, an academic research program based jointly at Stanford + USC. So happy you're casting a light on this emerging field of authenticity. We share your concerns!
Yes. This AI path we are on can easily lead to uber-surveillance by authorities as a means to restore social order being welcomed by shell-shocked people.
We know the step after that.
bsky.app/profile/just...
We know the step after that.
bsky.app/profile/just...
This by @zey.bsky.social ends with a nod to a real risk- synthetic media is likely to give authoritarians even more of an excuse to step in to surveil and enforce 'reality' in various ways.
Opinion | The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional.
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yes. This AI path we are on can easily lead to uber-surveillance by authorities as a means to restore social order being welcomed by shell-shocked people.
We know the step after that.
bsky.app/profile/just...
We know the step after that.
bsky.app/profile/just...
AI video is almost there: no amount of post-hoc squinting can tell fake from real.
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
August 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
AI video is almost there: no amount of post-hoc squinting can tell fake from real.
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Losing our last bastion of verification is no joke. Trusted news can help with high-profile events, but what about everyday life? Recipe for chaos.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
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This is very important. From the start ChatGPT- the name, the interface- was designed to make us view it as 'like us' & capable of thought, not just a collection of numbers for text prediction. Creating a social role for an LLM is more imp. than the LLM itself, and it's where any profit comes from.
I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines.
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
July 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is very important. From the start ChatGPT- the name, the interface- was designed to make us view it as 'like us' & capable of thought, not just a collection of numbers for text prediction. Creating a social role for an LLM is more imp. than the LLM itself, and it's where any profit comes from.
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Plausibility engine is such a great way to think of LLM's
I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines.
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
July 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Plausibility engine is such a great way to think of LLM's
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This is a great essay:
L.L.M.s are what they eat
L.L.M.s are what they eat
I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines.
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
July 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is a great essay:
L.L.M.s are what they eat
L.L.M.s are what they eat
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Nice piece on the dangers of LLMs. I liked the description as “plausibility engines” and not “truth seekers” or “reasoning machines”
I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines.
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
July 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Nice piece on the dangers of LLMs. I liked the description as “plausibility engines” and not “truth seekers” or “reasoning machines”
I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines.
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
July 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote about Grok going "MechaHitler" over at X, and the need to view LLMs correctly: as remarkably powerful plausibility engines.
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
Their AGI marketing and the strong inclination to project human qualities to anything that can speak is misleading us.
NYT gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
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After trying to sift thru the AI-generated crap in #WNBA, I found this
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
"AI-generated content — true and otherwise — is taking over the internet, providing training material for the next generation of LLMs, a sludge-generating machine feeding on its own sludge."
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
"AI-generated content — true and otherwise — is taking over the internet, providing training material for the next generation of LLMs, a sludge-generating machine feeding on its own sludge."
Opinion | Another Day, Another Chatbot’s Nazi Meltdown
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
After trying to sift thru the AI-generated crap in #WNBA, I found this
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
"AI-generated content — true and otherwise — is taking over the internet, providing training material for the next generation of LLMs, a sludge-generating machine feeding on its own sludge."
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
"AI-generated content — true and otherwise — is taking over the internet, providing training material for the next generation of LLMs, a sludge-generating machine feeding on its own sludge."
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“the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by DOGE. He was not replaced.”
Opinion | As the Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by DOGE. He was not replaced.”
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“To a Washington bean counter, his loss might have looked like one tiny but welcome subtraction in a giant spreadsheet, but not in a region so prone to these perilous events that it’s known as Flash Flood Alley.” @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...
Opinion | A Fact About the Floods the Government Doesn’t Seem Eager to Discuss
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
“To a Washington bean counter, his loss might have looked like one tiny but welcome subtraction in a giant spreadsheet, but not in a region so prone to these perilous events that it’s known as Flash Flood Alley.” @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...
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"The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge," according to its union's legislative director. 🎁 🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas (Gift Article)
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge," according to its union's legislative director. 🎁 🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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Here's the original KXAN article from April reporting on Paul Yura's early retirement "as the Trump Administration works to slash the budget at NWS and the larger NOAA organization"
www.kxan.com/weather/weat...
www.kxan.com/weather/weat...
Head of local weather warnings takes early retirement as NOAA cuts continue
Yura has over 32 years experience, spending more than half of his career at the NWS Austin/San Antonio office.
www.kxan.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Here's the original KXAN article from April reporting on Paul Yura's early retirement "as the Trump Administration works to slash the budget at NWS and the larger NOAA organization"
www.kxan.com/weather/weat...
www.kxan.com/weather/weat...
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Key Texas floods @nws.noaa.gov vacancies:
San Angelo office is missing
* meteorologist in charge
* senior hydrologist
* staff forecaster
San Antonio office is missing
* warning coordination meteorologist
* science officer
San Angelo office is missing
* meteorologist in charge
* senior hydrologist
* staff forecaster
San Antonio office is missing
* warning coordination meteorologist
* science officer
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Key Texas floods @nws.noaa.gov vacancies:
San Angelo office is missing
* meteorologist in charge
* senior hydrologist
* staff forecaster
San Antonio office is missing
* warning coordination meteorologist
* science officer
San Angelo office is missing
* meteorologist in charge
* senior hydrologist
* staff forecaster
San Antonio office is missing
* warning coordination meteorologist
* science officer
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Breaking News: President Trump said that the U.S. had bombed Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility, as well as two other sites.
U.S. Enters War With Iran, Striking Fordo Nuclear Site: Live Updates
President Trump announced the United States had struck Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facilities, as well as two other sites.
trib.al
June 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Breaking News: President Trump said that the U.S. had bombed Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility, as well as two other sites.
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Paging the approximately ten million PhD students working on AI & society
We’re hiring at Princeton on AI and society, working with Arvind Narayanan or me depending on fit.
I think current AI developments are all a huge deal but am very unexcited by current state of the AGI and/or AI safety discourse.
Please share as you see fit.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
I think current AI developments are all a huge deal but am very unexcited by current state of the AGI and/or AI safety discourse.
Please share as you see fit.
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu
June 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Paging the approximately ten million PhD students working on AI & society