Europe faces US AI dependence
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Google, Amazon and Microsoft pushed AI learning software into European schools and universities, raising concerns that education systems could become potentially dependent on U.S. tech firms.
Today, I'm calling to immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Today, I'm calling to immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
1) AI has huge potential to revolutionize education; 2) it could be, on average, bad for student achievement given how it's used.
More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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September 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
1) AI has huge potential to revolutionize education; 2) it could be, on average, bad for student achievement given how it's used.
More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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More generally, I wish schools did a better job of
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by Naomi Klein Reposted by Devon Greyson
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States.
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
September 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States.
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
The future of artificial intelligence must be decided by the American people through their democratically elected representatives in government—not by a handful of CEOs and billionaire corporations.
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The future of artificial intelligence must be decided by the American people through their democratically elected representatives in government—not by a handful of CEOs and billionaire corporations.
It's solo @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social with an AI/tech ramble today. I find the rambles helpful in clarifying my own thinking on challenging issues. On AI, two things seemingly at odds can be true.
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AI in schools: Ban it or embrace it? | Episode 1034 of The Education Gadfly Show
Mike Petrilli is back on the mic solo this week to weigh the case for and against banning AI in schools.
fordhaminstitute.org
September 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
It's solo @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social with an AI/tech ramble today. I find the rambles helpful in clarifying my own thinking on challenging issues. On AI, two things seemingly at odds can be true.
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Reposted by Kate Lowe, Hisham Zerriffi
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to
“craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
“craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
www.bu.edu
September 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to
“craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
“craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
We've already seen that the recent calls by AI industry leaders to ‘pace the frontier’ are insufficient, and their suggestions that we must weaken antitrust protections in order to confront the AI threat are transparently self-serving.
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
We've already seen that the recent calls by AI industry leaders to ‘pace the frontier’ are insufficient, and their suggestions that we must weaken antitrust protections in order to confront the AI threat are transparently self-serving.
Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Good. This bill contained provisions that would've endangered our rights for the sake of AI experimentation.
As tech leaders warn of AI's risks, Congress must not remove the few protections we have to hold companies accountable.
As tech leaders warn of AI's risks, Congress must not remove the few protections we have to hold companies accountable.
‘The bill is dead’: Crypto legislation collapses on Senate floor
Democrats said the legislation didn’t do enough to crack down on President Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest.
www.politico.com
September 15, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Good. This bill contained provisions that would've endangered our rights for the sake of AI experimentation.
As tech leaders warn of AI's risks, Congress must not remove the few protections we have to hold companies accountable.
As tech leaders warn of AI's risks, Congress must not remove the few protections we have to hold companies accountable.
The bitterest lesson:
"Rich Sutton’s incompleteideas.net/Inc… states that compute beats algorithms.
My experience is that Sutton’s bitter lesson is the tip of an iceberg of bitterer lessons: beyond compute and algorithms, there’s data and even picking the right task to do ML on."
"Rich Sutton’s incompleteideas.net/Inc… states that compute beats algorithms.
My experience is that Sutton’s bitter lesson is the tip of an iceberg of bitterer lessons: beyond compute and algorithms, there’s data and even picking the right task to do ML on."
The Bitterest Lesson - TypeSafe AI Blog
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
typesafe.ai
September 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
The bitterest lesson:
"Rich Sutton’s incompleteideas.net/Inc… states that compute beats algorithms.
My experience is that Sutton’s bitter lesson is the tip of an iceberg of bitterer lessons: beyond compute and algorithms, there’s data and even picking the right task to do ML on."
"Rich Sutton’s incompleteideas.net/Inc… states that compute beats algorithms.
My experience is that Sutton’s bitter lesson is the tip of an iceberg of bitterer lessons: beyond compute and algorithms, there’s data and even picking the right task to do ML on."
Frontier AI models are currently a dangerous technology without the safeguards needed to protect people from serious harm.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Frontier AI models are currently a dangerous technology without the safeguards needed to protect people from serious harm.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
That's why we should immediately pause the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
Reposted by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good.
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
September 16, 2026 at 10:36 AM
“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good.
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
“I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”
This is an extremely cool teachign example
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education.
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
September 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
This is an extremely cool teachign example
by John Holbein Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education.
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
September 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education.
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.
But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.
For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.
One example: 🧵
#WolffBites: Billionaires with sudden moral qualms about AI may just be disguising efforts to secure their monopoly positions.
September 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
#WolffBites: Billionaires with sudden moral qualms about AI may just be disguising efforts to secure their monopoly positions.
Reposted by Bessma Momani, Henry Jones
"AI folks have spent a long time talking to one another, and their explanations not just for what they’re attempting to build but why they have to build it are layered, heavily contingent thought experiments, rich in metaphor, full of prediction, and articulated in terms of game theory."
Why Everyone’s Talking About the AI Apocalypse
The AI-safety people finally have the public’s attention. Now what?
nymag.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
"AI folks have spent a long time talking to one another, and their explanations not just for what they’re attempting to build but why they have to build it are layered, heavily contingent thought experiments, rich in metaphor, full of prediction, and articulated in terms of game theory."
by Margot C. Finn Reposted by Katrina Navickas
The questions are 'which AI tools' and 'used how'?
Presumably UKRI is using (say) CoPilot, secured to UKRI, not feeding applications into commercial training models without applicants' knowledge or consent.
And presumably (never presume) the pilots are built with past UKRI EDI failures in mind.
Presumably UKRI is using (say) CoPilot, secured to UKRI, not feeding applications into commercial training models without applicants' knowledge or consent.
And presumably (never presume) the pilots are built with past UKRI EDI failures in mind.
Turn to AI in research grant assessment ‘is inevitable’.
UKRI becomes first mover to explore automation for processing applications, as other British funders hesitate.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI becomes first mover to explore automation for processing applications, as other British funders hesitate.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
September 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM
The questions are 'which AI tools' and 'used how'?
Presumably UKRI is using (say) CoPilot, secured to UKRI, not feeding applications into commercial training models without applicants' knowledge or consent.
And presumably (never presume) the pilots are built with past UKRI EDI failures in mind.
Presumably UKRI is using (say) CoPilot, secured to UKRI, not feeding applications into commercial training models without applicants' knowledge or consent.
And presumably (never presume) the pilots are built with past UKRI EDI failures in mind.
Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio
New school year off to a stumble w/ three major higher ed AI fallacies: 1. “We must embrace it because it’s here to stay.” So are radioactive waste & heroin. 2. “MY students would never cheat.” A statement about the speaker’s ego, not their students. 3. “I can always tell.” Sure thing, Sherlock.
September 16, 2026 at 1:35 PM
New school year off to a stumble w/ three major higher ed AI fallacies: 1. “We must embrace it because it’s here to stay.” So are radioactive waste & heroin. 2. “MY students would never cheat.” A statement about the speaker’s ego, not their students. 3. “I can always tell.” Sure thing, Sherlock.
by Seth Masket
I wrote the other day about AI becoming a populist issue that transcended party lines, not realizing Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon were about to share a stage on this topic!
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
September 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I wrote the other day about AI becoming a populist issue that transcended party lines, not realizing Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon were about to share a stage on this topic!
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
Reposted by Anastasia Salter, Mark Rice
You know what we really need right now? The opinions of two guys who don’t know anything about AI and who have been wrong about many or all of the most consequential events of the past quarter century.
NYT: coming right up!
NYT: coming right up!
September 16, 2026 at 12:03 PM
You know what we really need right now? The opinions of two guys who don’t know anything about AI and who have been wrong about many or all of the most consequential events of the past quarter century.
NYT: coming right up!
NYT: coming right up!
Tomorrow is going to be a very special day. Not so much for the champagne reception, but very much for what we have to unveil.
Contributions from about 30 antitrust agencies showing up all the progress they’ve made when it comes to the use of AI and other computational tools.
Contributions from about 30 antitrust agencies showing up all the progress they’ve made when it comes to the use of AI and other computational tools.
September 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Tomorrow is going to be a very special day. Not so much for the champagne reception, but very much for what we have to unveil.
Contributions from about 30 antitrust agencies showing up all the progress they’ve made when it comes to the use of AI and other computational tools.
Contributions from about 30 antitrust agencies showing up all the progress they’ve made when it comes to the use of AI and other computational tools.