@eefurth.bsky.social
Caring human being who continually strives to understand how things work and why. Its not magic, its MATH! Morals matter. "To teach is to touch lives forever."
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The number of people asking "How can all 100K of us [or worse, "I individually"] be in the room when the next #AIAct gets written" is astonishing.
Instead, ask "how can I best do and disseminate science that informs legislators who are trying to choose between potential policies?"
#AIEthics
Instead, ask "how can I best do and disseminate science that informs legislators who are trying to choose between potential policies?"
#AIEthics
“Farid says that he now counsels students to not go into AI research, because of the “frenzy” in the field and the large volume of low-quality work being put out by people hoping to better their career prospects”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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“When the neuroscientist reduces love to neurochemistry or the economist treats humans as rational utility-maximizers, these explanations may be technically sophisticated, but they feel profoundly dehumanizing…hyper-specialization destroyed: comprehensive rational frameworks for human flourishing.”
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“When the neuroscientist reduces love to neurochemistry or the economist treats humans as rational utility-maximizers, these explanations may be technically sophisticated, but they feel profoundly dehumanizing…hyper-specialization destroyed: comprehensive rational frameworks for human flourishing.”
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Public education is locked-in to private big tech services that increasingly seem antithetical to public values of education yet at the same time underwrite practices of teaching and learning. 3/
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Public education is locked-in to private big tech services that increasingly seem antithetical to public values of education yet at the same time underwrite practices of teaching and learning. 3/
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November 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Glad to see this from Brown. Let's hope other universities follow the example set by Brown and MIT. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Glad to see this from Brown. Let's hope other universities follow the example set by Brown and MIT. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
Will be giving this seminar at the ASCP (American Society of Clinical Pathology) meeting in November. Come and learn! #ascp #pathology #math
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Will be giving this seminar at the ASCP (American Society of Clinical Pathology) meeting in November. Come and learn! #ascp #pathology #math
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
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Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
October 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.
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15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵
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In one of her final interviews before she died, Jane Goodall emphasized that we know what’s killing the planet: industrial agriculture, including livestock, and burning fossil fuels.
She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.
She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.
Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message
"Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
www.motherjones.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In one of her final interviews before she died, Jane Goodall emphasized that we know what’s killing the planet: industrial agriculture, including livestock, and burning fossil fuels.
She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.
She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.
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People claim AI needs rights because we grant these to children – not only a ludicrous non sequitur (see blogpost) but what's killing me just now is the evident denial of the dramatic anti-humanising abuse of people who don't share gender and ethnicity? joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/06/what...
What Geoffrey Hinton gets wrong and right about AGI (super short post)
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
People claim AI needs rights because we grant these to children – not only a ludicrous non sequitur (see blogpost) but what's killing me just now is the evident denial of the dramatic anti-humanising abuse of people who don't share gender and ethnicity? joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/06/what...
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No they should not. That would be a moral hazard for the people building and benefiting from AI. Artefacts are by definition responsibilities, not responsible.
The criteria for free will in AI systems are similar to those for free will in corporate agents. The key question is whether the kinds of non-biological entities that increasingly play decision-making roles in society (whether corporate or AI) should be viewed as intentional agents with free will.
Do group agents have free will?
It is common to ascribe agency to some organized collectives, such as corporations, courts, and states, and to treat them as loci of responsibility, over and above their individual members. But sin...
www.tandfonline.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No they should not. That would be a moral hazard for the people building and benefiting from AI. Artefacts are by definition responsibilities, not responsible.
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Data / evidence re AI bubble is in a thread from my pinned skype bsky.app/profile/j2br...
more commentary on how we all knew (everyone remotely connected to finance) arbitrage had failed to counter the risk deregulation introduced here: joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-...
more commentary on how we all knew (everyone remotely connected to finance) arbitrage had failed to counter the risk deregulation introduced here: joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-...
August 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Data / evidence re AI bubble is in a thread from my pinned skype bsky.app/profile/j2br...
more commentary on how we all knew (everyone remotely connected to finance) arbitrage had failed to counter the risk deregulation introduced here: joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-...
more commentary on how we all knew (everyone remotely connected to finance) arbitrage had failed to counter the risk deregulation introduced here: joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-...
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We need a new ethics for a world of AI agents www.nature.com/articles/d41... #artificialintelligence #agenticAI #ethics #bioethics
We need a new ethics for a world of AI agents
The deployment of capable AI agents raises fresh questions about safety, human–machine relationships and social coordination.
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We need a new ethics for a world of AI agents www.nature.com/articles/d41... #artificialintelligence #agenticAI #ethics #bioethics
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The end of peer-review in the U.S.A.? www.nature.com/articles/d41... #science #research #nih #nsf #peerreview
Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The end of peer-review in the U.S.A.? www.nature.com/articles/d41... #science #research #nih #nsf #peerreview
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Then wait 30 years and see how secure you are in a society where no one can check facts for themselves.
There’s more to power than unstructured herds of credulous and / or apathetic, unwell people.
Via @michae.lv
There’s more to power than unstructured herds of credulous and / or apathetic, unwell people.
Via @michae.lv
CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BOOKS.
This is the fruit of SB13. Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.
The law doesn’t require it. But we @TXFreedomRead told legislators it would happen.
This is the fruit of SB13. Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.
The law doesn’t require it. But we @TXFreedomRead told legislators it would happen.
August 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Then wait 30 years and see how secure you are in a society where no one can check facts for themselves.
There’s more to power than unstructured herds of credulous and / or apathetic, unwell people.
Via @michae.lv
There’s more to power than unstructured herds of credulous and / or apathetic, unwell people.
Via @michae.lv
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Argh, mastodon still doesn't handle quoting very well, depending on your client. The narrative the quoted toot by me is about is here: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11490... and concerns weaselling out of obligations by blaming generative AI for an email. #AIEthics.
July 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Argh, mastodon still doesn't handle quoting very well, depending on your client. The narrative the quoted toot by me is about is here: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11490... and concerns weaselling out of obligations by blaming generative AI for an email. #AIEthics.
Margaret Boden. That's the post.
July 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Margaret Boden. That's the post.
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Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts.
He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.
Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.
Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
Ex-U.S. military translator from Afghanistan arrested by ICE in CT. Attorney calls it ‘nonsensical.’
The 35-year-old husband and father of five was taken into custody by ICE agents outside a routine green card appointment in East Hartford.
www.courant.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts.
He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.
Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.
Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
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Absolute cowardice, and everyone involved in this decision should be immediately fired, then flogged with a book on the history of Neville Chamberlain
BREAKING: Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220 million in deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding.
Columbia agrees to pay more than $220 million in deal with Trump to restore federal funding
Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus, the university announced Wednesday.
bit.ly
July 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Absolute cowardice, and everyone involved in this decision should be immediately fired, then flogged with a book on the history of Neville Chamberlain
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This blogpost is from 2020. In policy talks starting in 2019, I often used a slide saying "The most data doesn’t really win…
Only reason to have excessive data is to micromanage populations."
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2020/05/big-... 2/3
Only reason to have excessive data is to micromanage populations."
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2020/05/big-... 2/3
"Big data" is not a win: the Rumpelstiltskin AI (Rumpelstilzchen KI) fallacy and manifesto
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This blogpost is from 2020. In policy talks starting in 2019, I often used a slide saying "The most data doesn’t really win…
Only reason to have excessive data is to micromanage populations."
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2020/05/big-... 2/3
Only reason to have excessive data is to micromanage populations."
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2020/05/big-... 2/3
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Thanks, GOP!
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
www.npr.org
July 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Thanks, GOP!
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Thanks, Trump!
"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...
plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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The best way to foster them is to have an intellectually open attitude. It would be great if we could see more of that." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
garymarcus.substack....
#GenerativeAI
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How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI
Neurosymbolic AI is quietly winning. Here’s what that means – and why it took so long
garymarcus.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The best way to foster them is to have an intellectually open attitude. It would be great if we could see more of that." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social
garymarcus.substack....
#GenerativeAI
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garymarcus.substack....
#GenerativeAI
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