Writers call for AI oversight
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Opinion writers across publications urged collective, institutional responses to AI’s disruption of research and publishing, proposing new evaluation methods, a CERN-style research body and spiritual guidance.
Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Hearing AI regulation is in the air, especially with a misguided tone of “open dangerous, closed safe” so it felt timely to re-up this one. There are ways to make the AI industry safer without kneecapping transparency, education, and competition.
www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...
www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...
Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake
This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
www.interconnects.ai
September 25, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Hearing AI regulation is in the air, especially with a misguided tone of “open dangerous, closed safe” so it felt timely to re-up this one. There are ways to make the AI industry safer without kneecapping transparency, education, and competition.
www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...
www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...
Reposted by Simon Lester
1/Forget AI existential threat. This is far scarier. Jensen Huang lays out a dystopian future of computer outsourcing, human deskilling, and firm recklessness shrouded in the notion that these firms are unleashing an ayn randian paradise. Take a listen.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/Forget AI existential threat. This is far scarier. Jensen Huang lays out a dystopian future of computer outsourcing, human deskilling, and firm recklessness shrouded in the notion that these firms are unleashing an ayn randian paradise. Take a listen.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Reposted by Bessma Momani
“The reality is, we don’t have to wait to see how AI will bring about unprecedented death and destruction, because we’ve already witnessed its unleashing.”
It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein
Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:18 PM
“The reality is, we don’t have to wait to see how AI will bring about unprecedented death and destruction, because we’ve already witnessed its unleashing.”
Reposted by Christina Ho
Yet another example of how AI can be useful *once you already have deep knowledge and experience in a field* whereas using it as a student actively prevents the acquisition of that knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse. (Gift Article)
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Yet another example of how AI can be useful *once you already have deep knowledge and experience in a field* whereas using it as a student actively prevents the acquisition of that knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
by Book Reviews
Libraries have continued to test and use AI, according to the Pulse of the Library survey, but growth has decelerated. “There’s clearly a need to support libraries with practical guidelines or pathways for AI adoption,” said Clarivate SVP Oren Beit-Arie. buff.ly/rVUVTT1
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/101328-clarivate-report-assesses-libraries-adoption-implementation-of-ai.html
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September 25, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Libraries have continued to test and use AI, according to the Pulse of the Library survey, but growth has decelerated. “There’s clearly a need to support libraries with practical guidelines or pathways for AI adoption,” said Clarivate SVP Oren Beit-Arie. buff.ly/rVUVTT1
Reposted by Aaron Sojourner
"Just as providers are using sophisticated A.I. tools to say their patients are sicker, insurance companies have been accused of using the tools to delay or deny care."
AI, unlocking opportunities for bad-faith corporate actors to try to extract more money
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
AI, unlocking opportunities for bad-faith corporate actors to try to extract more money
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 11:21 AM
"Just as providers are using sophisticated A.I. tools to say their patients are sicker, insurance companies have been accused of using the tools to delay or deny care."
AI, unlocking opportunities for bad-faith corporate actors to try to extract more money
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
AI, unlocking opportunities for bad-faith corporate actors to try to extract more money
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
"Ethics of science cannot be separated from who funds it"
Goes for AI, goes for climate and most everything else, too, of course.
@financialtimes.com letter:
Goes for AI, goes for climate and most everything else, too, of course.
@financialtimes.com letter:
September 25, 2026 at 11:20 AM
"Ethics of science cannot be separated from who funds it"
Goes for AI, goes for climate and most everything else, too, of course.
@financialtimes.com letter:
Goes for AI, goes for climate and most everything else, too, of course.
@financialtimes.com letter:
Two newsrooms doing outstanding work in the US with AI while fully aware of their audience's concerns about the technology. This article by former Polis/LSE Journalistfonden Fellow, Swedish journalist Mersiha Ajdinovic
www.journalismai.info/blog/the-cou...
www.journalismai.info/blog/the-cou...
The country most wary of AI is building into the newsroom anyway — JournalismAI
By Mersiha Ajdinovic
www.journalismai.info
September 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Two newsrooms doing outstanding work in the US with AI while fully aware of their audience's concerns about the technology. This article by former Polis/LSE Journalistfonden Fellow, Swedish journalist Mersiha Ajdinovic
www.journalismai.info/blog/the-cou...
www.journalismai.info/blog/the-cou...
by Anna O. Law
load can get a course release to do research. The Advanced Research Directive fellowship, which offered a 1 semester teaching release, has already been defunded several yrs ago. Now the Wolfe fellowship may also be gone. How much is CUNY spending on AI bullshit? Does CUNY want research? 2/2
September 25, 2026 at 10:57 AM
load can get a course release to do research. The Advanced Research Directive fellowship, which offered a 1 semester teaching release, has already been defunded several yrs ago. Now the Wolfe fellowship may also be gone. How much is CUNY spending on AI bullshit? Does CUNY want research? 2/2
🤖 My six year-old told me to say no to AI.
Was she right? And would prohibition of AI actually solve the issue or make things worse?
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#AI #Education #GenAI #Parenting 🧪
Was she right? And would prohibition of AI actually solve the issue or make things worse?
theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-bans-sc...
#AI #Education #GenAI #Parenting 🧪
My Six-Year-Old Told Me to Say No to AI
New York and Los Angeles have switched it off for around a million children. We have run this experiment before.
theslowai.substack.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:49 AM
🤖 My six year-old told me to say no to AI.
Was she right? And would prohibition of AI actually solve the issue or make things worse?
theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-bans-sc...
#AI #Education #GenAI #Parenting 🧪
Was she right? And would prohibition of AI actually solve the issue or make things worse?
theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-bans-sc...
#AI #Education #GenAI #Parenting 🧪
Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio
-Did the AI actually “go rogue,” or did a human tell it to do something?
-Does “AI decided” actually mean “a company decided”?
-Does the "study" make the claim in the headline?
-Did this happen spontaneously in the wild, or in an experiment specifically designed to make it happen?
-Does “AI decided” actually mean “a company decided”?
-Does the "study" make the claim in the headline?
-Did this happen spontaneously in the wild, or in an experiment specifically designed to make it happen?
September 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
-Did the AI actually “go rogue,” or did a human tell it to do something?
-Does “AI decided” actually mean “a company decided”?
-Does the "study" make the claim in the headline?
-Did this happen spontaneously in the wild, or in an experiment specifically designed to make it happen?
-Does “AI decided” actually mean “a company decided”?
-Does the "study" make the claim in the headline?
-Did this happen spontaneously in the wild, or in an experiment specifically designed to make it happen?
Wow, the worst ever AI metaphor? To save people one has to inflict immense suffering as one apparently does during extremely painful surgery (in the case of AI one has to use lots of fossil fuels to build data centres and make climate change worse) #AIMetaphorObservatory
Comforting I’m not alone in this.
Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen
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ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
September 25, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Wow, the worst ever AI metaphor? To save people one has to inflict immense suffering as one apparently does during extremely painful surgery (in the case of AI one has to use lots of fossil fuels to build data centres and make climate change worse) #AIMetaphorObservatory