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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27d

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms

In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15d

Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 22

California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.

Tesla fights two court battles over claims it misled consumers about automated driving

Tesla is fighting cases in Miami and California alleging it dangerously misled consumers about its Autopilot technology, including the driver in a fatal crash.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · Jul 22

These things seem to bear repeating over and over again

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jul 21

Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified.

UK: “lol, no”

OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models

Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google

www.theguardian.com

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · Jul 18

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · Jul 17

We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.

Kristin Toussaint @ktoussaint.bsky.social · Jul 17

Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. “Water is an afterthought”...The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

www.nytimes.com

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Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · Jun 18

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Jun 18

"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."

AI's promise is still taking shape. The costs of its data centers are already here.

Data center costs in electricity and water have been hard to pin down. We dug up documents to figure out the impact of AI infrastructure.

www.businessinsider.com

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · Jun 5

Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=...
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Jun 18

Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Jun 9

....the Middle East, Latin America, or Russia and the Post-Soviet space, great power/imperial conflict, international law..technology/AI, or the international politics of the environment.

Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025

Apply here
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · Jun 9

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.

One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods

We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · Jun 4

Congrats Joe!! Amazing to see how this work has progressed

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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · Apr 11

Me every sunny day: God I love Scotland

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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · Apr 8

at no point did I know where that sentence was going but maybe I should’ve known

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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · Mar 18

“If my products are so good for everyone, why wouldn’t I guarantee its safety by holding myself to account? Who wins if we have biased, unsustainable, deceptive AI? Is it the 8 billionaires, or the other 8 billion people?” My interview @computerweekly.bsky.social & Seb Klovig tinyurl.com/4my8rke3

AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society | Computer Weekly

Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit discussed how the technology can be made to work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competin...

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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · Mar 5

My colleague Peter Conti-Brown and I have a project connecting the dots between AI governance and financial regulation. Below is the first in a series of contributions from our recent workshop, by Penn Carey Law School regulatory expert Cary Coglianese.

open.substack.com/pub/petercon...

Strategies for Regulating Artificial Intelligence - Guest Post, Cary Coglianese

As part of our series on AI Risk Management and Financial Regulation, our colleague Cary Coglianese builds on his work to describe some options for regulating AI risks.

open.substack.com

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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · Mar 14

Only in Scotland would you see a bunch of barbecues going in the park on a day that feels like 35F (2C)

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 13

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · Mar 13

Makes me really just want to do a full u-turn and focus entirely on history for the next 10 years or so because lord knows people need reminding

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely!
tinyurl.com/hci-sony