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OpenAI's system solved 100 problems

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OpenAI said its AI had solved more than 100 historic mathematical problems days after it solved one of the Millennium Prize problems, and asked prominent academics to advise on communications.

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Keep your expectations low for this week’s visit of XI to the United States when it comes to AI regulation.

But be aware of how high are the stakes for humanity.

Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/xi-and-the-dilemma-of-ai
September 22, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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A bit from me in @wired.com today wrt our research on AI agents with @evijit.io and Samir Passi.
This is a really detailed article, thanks for writing it @thiccreese.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/metas-...
September 21, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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I'm hiring an economics predoc at @columbiasipa.bsky.social, generally on applied micro projects, but with a large focus on the impacts of AI on economic outcomes using large-scale field experiments with many companies.

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September 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Few see OpenAI's announcement, which came as human mathematicians were closing in on a solution, as an example of how AI and mathematicians can work together
www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
AI solved one of math's hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)
OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.
www.npr.org
September 22, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Excellent technical and ideological demystification of the sloppy development processes that encourage cheating and hacking by AI agents .
Dreaming Against the Machine
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam B...
podcasts.apple.com
September 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go... what it says on the package
Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI
www.programmablemutter.com
September 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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(Also, what exactly *is* the supposed mechanism for an AI apocalypse? Is it that they hack into the nuclear launch codes, or something? I can tell you what are the many varied mechanisms by which climate change, and its intersections with society, will produce injury, but…)
September 22, 2026 at 3:42 PM

Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog

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Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told
Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2026 at 12:03 PM

Reposted by Steve Peers

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Use of AI to plan violent criminal activities will soon be commonplace. Here's another example: British Columbia sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in BC could have been prevented if the company had warned local law ‌enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to plan the massacre.
British Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge school shooting
British Columbia sued OpenAI in California on Monday, saying ​a mass shooting at a school in the province could have been prevented if the company had warned local law ‌enforcement that the shooter ha...
www.reuters.com
September 22, 2026 at 11:52 AM

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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"If Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI giants want to keep referring to themselves as labs, they should adhere to scientific best practices: open-sourcing code, preregistering studies, and, most important, subjecting research to independent peer review."

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
There’s No Such Thing as an AI ‘Lab’
The term lends an air of scientific rigor to what are really billion-dollar corporations.
www.theatlantic.com
September 21, 2026 at 7:14 PM

Reposted by Peter Thorne

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Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you will inevitably get people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it came into common use? Asbestos.
September 22, 2026 at 7:10 AM

Reposted by Hilary J. Allen

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From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:

www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
www.technologyreview.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I am assuming the latest thing I have AI to thank for is the inundation of obviously auto generated PhD queries I am getting. Gone from a couple a week to around 5 per day.
September 22, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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I've been wondering for a while if other hobbyists have noticed how the quality of search info has deteriorated. Nice to have it validated.
People have wondered what happens when the web fully rots out from underneath chatbots and search engines. Now we know at least one answer: AI is watching a lot of YouTube nymag.com/intelligence...
September 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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'Sir Anthony Seldon, former head teacher and author on AI in education, says the technology is being used more and more frequently, but that its introduction has been "chaotic and anarchic".'
Schools 'crying out' for guidance from government on AI, report warns
Author Sir Anthony Seldon says AI needs to be addressed with the same urgency as a war or epidemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 22, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Reposted by Elaine Treharne

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"AI companies pirated millions of books to train today’s most popular models, as The Atlantic has previously reported. Those models are now being used to churn out books in a matter of minutes and place them alongside books that represent years of hard work."
The Rise of Parasite Authors
First, AI stole their books. Now it’s stealing their readers.
www.theatlantic.com
September 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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I can't wait for a world in which AI-written abstracts are summarised by AI bots in order to produce AI papers. No need to trouble our little meat brains again.
September 21, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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'His report calls for the government to roll out a national framework for adopting AI in education in England, including training teachers on how to use it, which schools should use to develop their own "AI strategies" by September next year.' (BBC)
Nearly half of young people trust AI over a human for fact-checking, report says
The report also warned that pupils may no longer see school as a "legitimate use of their time" if the education system undervalues AI.
news.sky.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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A New Day for Governing AI Development?

Trying out a new maxim: the more powerful a technology, the more concern people will have about deploying it, with Artificial Intelligence as the latest example....
A New Day for Governing AI Development?
Trying out a new maxim: the more powerful a technology, the more concern people will have about deploying it, with Artificial Intelligence as the latest example.
jpalfrey.blog
September 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM