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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
I'll be @neuripsconf.bsky.social presenting Strategic Hypothesis Testing (spotlight!)
tldr: Many high-stakes decisions (e.g., drug approval) rely on p-values, but people submitting evidence respond strategically even w/o p-hacking. Can we characterize this behavior & how policy shapes it?
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Nature CAREER COLUMN 11 November 2025 I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket Grappling with difficulties in your career? Try asking an Al-powered advisory panel of experts, suggests Carsten Lund Pedersen.
The make-up of my advisory board often changes, and has included an eclectic mix. Besides Bohr, Feynman and Einstein, I've also tapped microbiologist Alexander Fleming, poet Piet Hein and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. Sometimes I include experts from my specific disciplines of Al and marketing; other times, l 'invite' artist Pablo Picasso or architect Bjarke Ingels for a completely different perspective. But whatever the board's composition, I typically retain a core group of three seminal scientists.
What do you do after you’re done jumping the shark?
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Russia’s success in poisoning LLMs with lies, and the effects it has on both AI and politics, reflects Russia’s much deeper understanding of how societies operates than much of Silicon Valley - and how important social sciences are in understanding and waging information warfare
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Pretends to be shocked
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
The viral "Definition of AGI" paper tells you to read fake references which do not exist!
Proof: different articles present at the specified journal/volume/page number, and their titles exist nowhere on any searchable repository.
Take this as a warning to not use LMs to generate your references!
What is good pseudoscience?
imho — anyone who equates a human with an app or a machine today is just dehumanizing people and stripping people of their (dwindling, already eroding, not well respected) rights.
Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
I said a thing :).
OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
After 2 years in press, it's published!
"Talkin' 'Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain," is out in the 72nd volume of the Journal of the Copyright Society
copyrightsociety.org/journal-entr...
written with @katherinelee.bsky.social & @jtlg.bsky.social (2023)
In a new paper, I try to resolve the counterintuitive evidence of Meehl’s “clinical vs statistical prediction” problems: Statistics only wins because the game is rigged.
I wonder if this is about a recent preprint on hallucinations making rounds on social media.
If kids’ schools trained them for work based on what everyone thought the hot new technology was going to be, both my kids would have spent the past several years learning about the blockchain. This is why schools don’t attempt to do workplace training: life is pretty long.
There are many similarities with the AI discourse now and the early web. There too were some utopian visions of the future like in this famous Barlow's declaration.
20 years after, the www is a great technology, yet here we are now with all the dopamine-driven design and social polarization.
From claims of "Ph.D. level" intelligence about generative models and calls for knowledge work to be replaced by these models, to Musk's claim that there is no research only engineering, to — all are manifestations of anti-intelluctualism.
This is absolutely what I expect as well.
Excellent post @aarontay.bsky.social on how there are so many LLMs in modern library search pipelines, each applying content moderation filters (or subject to cloud providers'), leading to unexpected & unwanted censorship on topics like Gaza and race rioting. aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
Rachel L. Draelos, Samina Afreen, Barbara Blasko, Tiffany Brazile, Natasha Chase, Dimple Desai, Jessica Evert, Heather L. Gardner, Lauren Herrmann, Aswathy Vaikom House, ...
Large language models provide unsafe answers to patient-posed medical questions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18905
firefox even does this for you
The whole "Grok can be re-tuned at Elon's will to spout off like Hitler" thing sorta punctures the "LLM chatbots are AGI" discourse just a little bit, doesn't it.
New preprint on the most precise as of yet mapping between differential privacy and common operational notions of privacy risk used in practice:
Some ✨ personal news ✨: I'm starting my independent consultancy, focused on helping organizations do good things with privacy-enhancing technology 🎉
It's called Hiding Nemo, and you can read all about it on our website ➡️ https://hiding-nemo.com 🪸
Ah, the AI for Good Summit, complete with a cybertruck display.