AI Experts Optimistic, Public Fears Job Losses
There's a growing gap between AI experts and public opinions: 73% of experts but only 23% of the public are positive about the long-term effect on jobs, "with nearly 2/3s of Americans thinking that AI would lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years". https://t.co/81lDpEsouf
Data Centers Turn to Self‑Power Amid Utility Delays
"As data center developers face long waits for connections to traditional utilities, and amid mounting... resistance to the possibility of higher energy bills, making their own power is becoming an increasingly popular option" Max power, min accountability https://t.co/XZBADSC8dE
AI Will Widen Labor‑Capital Gap, Spark Chaos
“AI is going to increase inequality between labour and capital. That is almost for sure. I would say it is setting us up for a . . . shitshow.” @DAcemogluMIT @FT https://t.co/yIw3ipP3Cl
Governments Cede AI Power to Wealthy Tech Elite
Governments are so in awe of tech bros' tales about the AI future "that they have given them a free pass to do... whatever they want" leading to a big "transfer of power away from the state" to...
AI Chatbots Mirror Our Craving for False Empathy
AI chatbots are mirrors that "give us back the illusion of personhood and empathy". This "caring contact is paradoxically, the thing we crave more and more" as we become "increasingly micromanaged by algorithms" and more lonely & estranged https://t.co/b8bOO89z9X @MrEwanMorrison...
Executives Praise AI, Workers Lose 51 Days Annually
"though 81 percent of executives think their AI deployments have 'significantly improved productivity,' their workers are actually wasting eight hours per week cleaning up after AI’s messes, which is the equivalent of 51 work days a year." https://t.co/lAaa8wpyg3
AI Agents Create Unprecedented, Unpredictable Insurance Risk
AI agents present an unprecedented insurance challenge because of their unpredictable behavior, which cannot be compared with business perils such as hurricanes "where the parameters of the threat are easier to define" @FT https://t.co/3mdMpPESBl
AI Can Enable Technofascism, Already Under Construction
AI does not inevitably lead to technofascism, "but it can enable it". #Palantir’s post "offers us a glimpse of the technofascist trajectory: not as a distant possibility, but as a world already under construction". Great piece by @MCoeckelbergh ⬇️ https://t.co/NZs6TkA5Gf
AI Is a Powered Mimic, Not Self-Sustaining Life
An AI, regardless of its "behavioral and verbal sophistication, remains a functional mimic. Its existence is dependent on external energy and human design, lacking the intrinsic, self-sustaining processes characteristic of biological life" 💡 @AnnaCiaunica https://t.co/XZeEohCpkV
Tech Firms Shield Datacenter Metrics, Thwart EU Transparency Push
So, the EU commission wanted to oblige datacentre operators to report data on key performance indicators. But then tech companies successfully "pushed to classify all individual information on datacentres as confidential, citing commercial interests" https://t.co/qmPgzunR0w
Google Deems Books Inefficient, yet Scans Them Anyway
"When I was writing my book about Google, Sergey Brin began one interview with a lecture about how books were an inefficient way to explain things. (That didn’t stop Google from scanning millions of books for its search business.)" 👏...
AI Complicates Education Rather than Revolutionizing Learning
Until the "AI bubble pops" and "frictionless access to LLMs withers", AI "isn’t revolutionizing education and enhancing learning. It’s just making it extraordinarily difficult to do all the things that have been helping students learn for a very long time"...
Data Centers Drain Water, Offer Minimal Jobs
Hollingsworth also“pointed out how few jobs these data centers could offer, despite being a massive strain on resources. ‚A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people… which only hires about ten people is not an employer…They are an extraction.”...
Mythos Preview's Pricing Outpaces Competitors, Feels Exploitative
"Mythos Preview will cost Project Glasswing users $25/$125 per million input/output tokens. That compares to Opus 4.6 at $5/$25, GPT-5.4 at $2.5/$15 and GPT 5.4 Pro at $30/$180. There are times when this feels like an arsonist selling...
Altman Urges Calm While Fueling AI Hype Himself
Altman says "We should de-escalate the rhetoric", without acknowledging "that much of the heightened, sometimes glibly apocalyptic rhetoric about the powers of A.I. has come from within the industry itself and, indeed, straight from his own mouth" @chaykak https://t.co/ABzEUiQVim
Communities and Workers Push Back Against AI Takeover
Public backlash over AI is getting real: "Residents are starting to stand up to what tech leaders continue to claim is a technological revolution, while workers are actively rebelling after being forced train their AI replacements". https://t.co/18e7f6t8p8
Brittle AI Detectors Fuel Witch Hunt, Erode Trust
For those who follow me on LinkedIn, I have published some thought on the "witch hunt" for authors using AI and why brittle AI detectors (often from profit-oriented companies) are just fueling the epidemic of mistrust. https://t.co/gC0zP9fLH5 https://t.co/awI9AEJbSB
Companies Strategize Against Employees, Not Competitors
„Why would someone work for an institution that is actively working to undermine their well-being? Most large companies are spending more time strategizing against their employees than against their competitors.“ @anildash https://t.co/umxZcEjwNe
Courage Guides Action; Agency Lacks Moral Direction
"'Courage' has a moral valence that agency doesn’t. Agency is about action, but it tells us nothing of direction. You can just do things, sure, but what will you do?" We've "collectively lost a sense of moral guidance" and don’t...
Science Provides Incremental Evidence, Not Absolute Truth
Scientific findings are often presented as conclusive "when in reality they represent incremental evidence within a larger, uncertain body of work. A single study cannot establish truth; at best, it shifts probabilities" ht @ProfNoahGian https://t.co/V4FSnNTHOi https://t.co/kdOnLWm9xl
Live Facial Recognition Scans Millions on UK High Streets Daily
"'Live' facial recognition cameras, which scan the faces of passers-by to search for wanted people in real time, now regularly appear on British high streets" 8.6m faces scanned in 2025. 😱 If only the UK had stayed in the EU... #EUAIAct https://t.co/N0XKWoy0gL
LLMs Think in English, Then Translate for Users
LLMs routinely reason "in English, even when prompted in other languages. They translate the output at the final stage. A user receives flawless text in their preferred language, but the underlying logic originates elsewhere" ht @interpretaatioo https://t.co/3lStqeIiWm
LLMs Erode Book Culture, Threatening Their Own Host
The value of LLMs "depends on our continued esteem for bookiness. But as they take over the tasks both of reading and (...) writing, they necessarily eat away at that esteem. They are a parasite that threatens to kill the...
LLMs Guess, Not Guarantee: Probabilistic by Design
It bears repeating: „LLMs are inherently probabilistic, not deterministic. They try to guess the answer that sounds best, not the objectively correct one. And that’s not a problem to be fixed. It’s fundamental to how these models work.“
Dirty-Energy Data Centers Fuel Job‑killing, Existential Tech
Landscapes are being littered with noisy data centres running on dirty energy, where no one works, and which enable the technology whose inventors either boast about putting millions of people out of work or threaten to wipe out humankind https://t.co/zBhxGMfAEk @matteo_wong
Algorithms Turn Content Into Ultraprocessed, Irresistible Streams
Much of the digital content that ensnares our attention is "ultraprocessed", i.e. "the result of vast databases of user-generated content that are sifted, broken down and recombined by algorithms into personalized streams designed to be irresistible". https://t.co/QDr9Jzu8Y9
AI Evolves Faster than Any Detection Technology
"AI is a learning system continually upgraded by its manufacturers. If there was a detection technology that worked, then people would simply build better AI tools to fool it." Patrick Juola, computer scientist So frustrating. Are we fighting...
LLM‑dependent Essays Cut Pronouns by Half
"users who heavily relied on LLMs submitted essays with 50% fewer pronouns, which was representative of the larger shift toward impersonal language that included fewer anecdotes and references to human experiences". And you wonder why... https://t.co/3Fm3ZyjtFC
AI Translation Falls Short on Unstable Literary Meaning
"When meaning is unstable as it is in literary works, a probabilistic, least-common-denominator interpretation is inherently worthless. An AI translation is fluff, it is slop and it is void" Brilliant piece on machine translation. https://t.co/VMg6W5C58m ht @lenitiv
Freedom Requires Cultural Protection, Not Engineered Optimization
"Human freedom is not randomness; it is the capacity to reinterpret who we are and what counts as a good life... That capacity cannot be engineered—it must be socially and culturally protected" @MCoeckelbergh on the risks of 'behavior optimizing AI....
Fluent Language ≠ Proof of Intelligence, Past Bias Repeats
"Just as the absence of spoken language was wrongly taken as evidence of absent intelligence in the past, the presence of fluent language output is now being wrongly taken as evidence of present intelligence. It’s a similar error, inverted" @mmitchell_ai...
AI's “Democratize” Claim Misused in Iran Conflict Coverage
"The implicit promise from the people building and selling this sort of information pipeline about the Iran conflict is that AI can be a great democratizing force." Hard to think of a more inappropriate use of the verb "democratize". https://t.co/cLUWZ3tYWm
Mandated AI Use Creates Friction and Inefficiency
"The pressure to use AI 'created more friction as it became obvious that we were being monitored for our usage, and we were being told that we had to use it', even if it was the less efficient route to...
Nihilism Finds Validation in AI's Truth‑Irrelevant Output
There's a "curious affinity between... nihilism and AI enthusiasm: If truth is irrelevant anyway, then LLMs – which essentially produce plausible statements without reference to truth (critics call it bullshit) – are not a threat but confirmation" https://t.co/6vkPk0n6NP