AI gaps could deepen inequality
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping education and career prospects, while unequal access to AI skills could widen existing gaps for young people and women.
⚗️ Cutting a chemistry AI's made-up answers
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
Game theory driven multi-agent framework mitigates language model hallucination - Nature Communications
Lightweight AI models can be unreliable in specialized scientific tasks. Here, the authors introduce G-Frame, which uses game theory to coordinate multiple AI agents, automate data generation and trai...
doi.org
October 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
⚗️ Cutting a chemistry AI's made-up answers
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
argument that AI will spread expert consensus & aid technocracy:
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-ai-wil...
Reasonable (especially for intra-elite debate). But increasing role of experts & educated in governance is a longstanding trend (that this continues, not reverses); & still provokes backlash
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-ai-wil...
Reasonable (especially for intra-elite debate). But increasing role of experts & educated in governance is a longstanding trend (that this continues, not reverses); & still provokes backlash
How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion
Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force.
www.conspicuouscognition.com
October 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
argument that AI will spread expert consensus & aid technocracy:
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-ai-wil...
Reasonable (especially for intra-elite debate). But increasing role of experts & educated in governance is a longstanding trend (that this continues, not reverses); & still provokes backlash
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-ai-wil...
Reasonable (especially for intra-elite debate). But increasing role of experts & educated in governance is a longstanding trend (that this continues, not reverses); & still provokes backlash
Reposted by James Grimmelmann
to me, a layup sensible AI regulation is "do not allow the AI agent to make phone calls for any reason"
A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...
October 11, 2026 at 3:26 PM
to me, a layup sensible AI regulation is "do not allow the AI agent to make phone calls for any reason"
⚗️ Cutting a chemistry AI's made-up answers
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
Game theory driven multi-agent framework mitigates language model hallucination - Nature Communications
Lightweight AI models can be unreliable in specialized scientific tasks. Here, the authors introduce G-Frame, which uses game theory to coordinate multiple AI agents, automate data generation and trai...
doi.org
October 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
⚗️ Cutting a chemistry AI's made-up answers
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
Researchers in China used teams of AI agents to build training data, and a small chemistry model's made-up answers fell from 41.95% to 12.91% on one test. Fewer wrong answers.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-78213-5
#Chemistry #AI 🧪
"investment in data centers comes at the expense of other investments"
"money spent building data centers will,
on average,
create only around one percent as many jobs
as investing the same sum in other industries
would have created"
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-ai-cr...
"money spent building data centers will,
on average,
create only around one percent as many jobs
as investing the same sum in other industries
would have created"
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-ai-cr...
Will AI Crowd Out Jobs?
A different and alarming take on the economic risks
paulkrugman.substack.com
October 11, 2026 at 2:18 PM
"investment in data centers comes at the expense of other investments"
"money spent building data centers will,
on average,
create only around one percent as many jobs
as investing the same sum in other industries
would have created"
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-ai-cr...
"money spent building data centers will,
on average,
create only around one percent as many jobs
as investing the same sum in other industries
would have created"
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-ai-cr...
What it's mainly going to do is fuck us over in all manner of horrible ways, but apparently we can't uninvent it so we have to jump on the bandwagon. Bollocks.
October 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
What it's mainly going to do is fuck us over in all manner of horrible ways, but apparently we can't uninvent it so we have to jump on the bandwagon. Bollocks.
I will present and discuss findings from our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social publication on the "Geography of AI" (doi.org/10.1080/0034...)
For a quick overview see this @regstud.bsky.social Regions piece - "Mind the Gap: The Spatial Paradox of AI" regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl...
For a quick overview see this @regstud.bsky.social Regions piece - "Mind the Gap: The Spatial Paradox of AI" regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl...
October 11, 2026 at 12:17 PM
I will present and discuss findings from our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social publication on the "Geography of AI" (doi.org/10.1080/0034...)
For a quick overview see this @regstud.bsky.social Regions piece - "Mind the Gap: The Spatial Paradox of AI" regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl...
For a quick overview see this @regstud.bsky.social Regions piece - "Mind the Gap: The Spatial Paradox of AI" regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl...
Reposted by James O’Sullivan
The vast majority of respondents (94pc) said they did not trust the AI tech giants. Only 2pc said they did, and 3pc were not sure.
87pc said they wanted governments to step in and regulate the use of AI, marking an 11pc rise since we asked the same question in July 2023
87pc said they wanted governments to step in and regulate the use of AI, marking an 11pc rise since we asked the same question in July 2023
Vast majority of Irish people do not trust AI giants and want governments to regulate them, poll finds
Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks survey finds only 2pc trust firms behind new technology
www.independent.ie
October 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The vast majority of respondents (94pc) said they did not trust the AI tech giants. Only 2pc said they did, and 3pc were not sure.
87pc said they wanted governments to step in and regulate the use of AI, marking an 11pc rise since we asked the same question in July 2023
87pc said they wanted governments to step in and regulate the use of AI, marking an 11pc rise since we asked the same question in July 2023
AI does not live “in the cloud.” It depends on energy, water, minerals, chips, data centres, labour and global supply chains.
Computational Metabolism maps these flows. Techno-colonialism asks who controls and benefits from them.
Read: sl1nk.com/hbzwu9j
#AI #AIinequality #TechnoColonialism
Computational Metabolism maps these flows. Techno-colonialism asks who controls and benefits from them.
Read: sl1nk.com/hbzwu9j
#AI #AIinequality #TechnoColonialism
October 11, 2026 at 10:45 AM
AI does not live “in the cloud.” It depends on energy, water, minerals, chips, data centres, labour and global supply chains.
Computational Metabolism maps these flows. Techno-colonialism asks who controls and benefits from them.
Read: sl1nk.com/hbzwu9j
#AI #AIinequality #TechnoColonialism
Computational Metabolism maps these flows. Techno-colonialism asks who controls and benefits from them.
Read: sl1nk.com/hbzwu9j
#AI #AIinequality #TechnoColonialism
Humans in the loop to keep humans in the workforce.
With a preprint exploring the issue and how to mitigate it: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With a preprint exploring the issue and how to mitigate it: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
What if AI prefers CVs written by AI?
The signs are that it does and one law firm’s experience is revealing
giftarticle.ft.com
October 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Humans in the loop to keep humans in the workforce.
With a preprint exploring the issue and how to mitigate it: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With a preprint exploring the issue and how to mitigate it: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
& here is your regular reminder that the most important sector full of jobs AI have eliminated wasn't by substitution but by eliminating revenue from newspapers. I've heard it suggested that Google's way they found to fund "the mind of god" is the cause of democratic backsliding. 3/3 #AIEthics #FoW
October 11, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Interesting to compare with electronic calculators. We probably all got worse at mental arithmetic but they allowed many people to do what they couldn’t before. Not sure we’ve heard believable claims about the upside with AI though.
October 11, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Interesting to compare with electronic calculators. We probably all got worse at mental arithmetic but they allowed many people to do what they couldn’t before. Not sure we’ve heard believable claims about the upside with AI though.