OpenAI Announces 100 Math Breakthroughs
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OpenAI announced its AI had solved more than 100 longstanding mathematical problems and enlisted leading academics to explain the breakthroughs amid security worries and surging open-source AI development.
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
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
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
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
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
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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.
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September 22, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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
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by Robert Metcalfe Reposted by Dean Eckles, Peter Bergman, Christian E. Weller
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September 22, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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.
Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/194121
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by Janet Murray
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...
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September 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... Excellent technical and ideological demystification of the sloppy development processes that encourage cheating and hacking by AI agents .
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
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September 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go... what it says on the package
Again, I would genuinely care less about all of this if not for the fact that proponents of weirdo rationalist/EA ideas about how preventing AI from killing us all is The Most Important Thing are now incredibly powerful and wealthy, and will likely get way more so with the Anthropic/OpenAI IPOs.
September 22, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Again, I would genuinely care less about all of this if not for the fact that proponents of weirdo rationalist/EA ideas about how preventing AI from killing us all is The Most Important Thing are now incredibly powerful and wealthy, and will likely get way more so with the Anthropic/OpenAI IPOs.
Reposted by Meredith Broussard
"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...
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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
"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."
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Reposted by Peter Thorne
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
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.
Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog
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’
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September 22, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Reposted by Sarah Roberts
i do believe AI “works” and is extremely powerful. i’m sure machine learning can also be used for good. many of the uses to which it is being put seem to be both destructive and morally repugnant & maybe a little more discussion of that would be good :) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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September 22, 2026 at 5:46 PM
i do believe AI “works” and is extremely powerful. i’m sure machine learning can also be used for good. many of the uses to which it is being put seem to be both destructive and morally repugnant & maybe a little more discussion of that would be good :) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
Reposted by Steve Peers
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
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.
(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
(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…)
by Alan McNally
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
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.
Reposted by Hilary J. Allen
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...
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
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...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
'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.
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September 22, 2026 at 6:47 AM
'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".'
Reposted by Jonathan Wolff
"One contractor said they see people using AI “all the time and people are let go for it all the time, it’s pretty much the one thing that will get you kicked off ASAP.” The person said, “in a group of thousands there are tons that have been caught.”
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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September 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"One contractor said they see people using AI “all the time and people are let go for it all the time, it’s pretty much the one thing that will get you kicked off ASAP.” The person said, “in a group of thousands there are tons that have been caught.”
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by John Palfrey
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....
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
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....
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....
Report: AI Created Recession-Like Job Market for Some New Grads www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
AI Created Recession-Like Job Market for Some New Grads
For some recent college graduates—especially those who majored in computer science and related fields—the rise of generative artificial intelligence has created a job market that’s just as tough as…
www.insidehighered.com
September 22, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Report: AI Created Recession-Like Job Market for Some New Grads www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
'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
'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)
Reposted by Elaine Treharne
"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.
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September 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
"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."