IMO a lot of the problem with AI in therapy comes from the view of therapy as mechanical rather than relational (e.g. CBT). You wouldn't ever plausibly think that AI could be useful in therapy unless you thought a meaningful ongoing therapeutic relationship with another human being was unimportant.

They can only blame unemployment on AI as long as people think that AI actually improves productivity, which it doesn't. As job losses mount due to deteriorating economic conditions unrelated to AI, we'll see an extinction burst on the pushing of various "AGI is here" stories. AI is a bubble.

You know this is bullshit because the headline says “general intelligence” but the sub heading hedges with “key tasks.” Sorry to state the obvious but if it only applies to key tasks it isn’t general intelligence.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Fuck tenure, I want revenge.

realizing with dawning horror that I'm going to have to read baudrillard

The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed. Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.

Philosophy is structurally unable to acknowledge that "I dunno, man, maybe?" is objectively speaking the correct answer to most of our questions.

As always, I think the discussion gets much clearer if we drop the term "AI" and talk instead in terms of clear descriptions of what's being automated. The tech in question here is synthetic text extruding machines.

This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.

Two buttons meme

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

This is a real work of art in the Youtube Video Essay genre. Funny, witty, hates the people I hate and genuinely insightful. Highly recommend. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

There is no such thing as an "AI" (or any other technology) without biases and values in it, but there very definitely is such a thing as presenting one's own biases and values as "neutral" and then forcing people to build "AI" which conforms to *those.*

if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything

People are going to blame generative AI but there was a huge push towards STEM education at the secondary level starting about 15 years ago and I’ve always suspected that it originated in big tech companies as a long-term plan to increase the tech worker labor pool and drive down wages

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

You owe it to yourself to develop your own interpretation of a text, & there's no shortcut to doing that but sitting & going through all of its words & absorbing them.

The singularity is awesome

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

look at what democrats have mustered against zohran mamdani vs. what they've mustered against trump. they've decided who their enemy is and it's the democratic majority.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

People who don’t like AI aren’t in denial about how useful it is. People who like AI are in denial about how useful it is

Here's a tip for Microsoft: If I type the name of a locally installed program into the search bar in Windows, there is a 0% chance that what I actually want to do is use Edge to open Bing to search the internet for the name of that program. You're welcome.

We're gonna need an active communist party if only to restore context to our political discourse, I can't listen to republicans calling chuck schumer radical left anymore

"A lot of people who believe that AGI is around the corner... it's not based on their belief of what software can do. It is inherently based on their belief of what humans [are] and our intelligence is" - Karen Hao

I love reading serious stories about guys who believe AGI is real, it feels like a bunch of millionaires plotting to find and capture Santa Claus

Imagine going into life altering debt so some useless scammer sex pest fuckwit can scrape the very last hope of a profit out of the machine that makes shit up

Am I missing something or is the "killer use case" of generative AI just that it lets high school kids / college students / the secretary of HHS cheat on their homework? Does it do anything else?

Much like they used RTO as cover for soft layoffs, American companies are now using “AI” as cover for tariff-induced price increases and layoffs required by a slowing economy. There is a real risk that explicitly tying these changes to tariffs would cause them to be targeted by the president.

Independent media is more important than ever. Please make a donation to @democracynow.org to help us keep telling the stories you won't hear anywhere else. Today, your donation gets a triple-match — if you give $25, it will be worth $75!

Telling myself that it’s a good way to understand the flavor profile of the coffee as I drink an espresso blend as a pour over because I forgot to change the setting on the grinder.

AI can save you a lot of time if you need a bunch of information summarized and it's not important to you whether the summary is accurate

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

Thanks for this masterpiece @alyankovic.bsky.social

Another frame constricting our imagination is the belief that if one names a problem one must also have a solution to propose. This incentivizes ignoring problems or falling back on cliches.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

AGI has been ten years away for the last sixty years. What have we actually accomplished in that time? Self-crashing cars and a plagiarism machine that still gets all the answers wrong.

It has long been clear that the Internet isn’t as good as it was before, but it was hard to say exactly how or why. This piece from @jacobsilverman.com clearly articulates the growing frustrations many of us have with the Internet but have been unable to put into words effectively.

Good turnout in Gettysburg today. #FiftyFiftyOne #April19 #NoKings

This is important work. I’ll add that hybrid or satellite options for conference participation are also important for accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities.

Working my way through all the Bond movies.

Every time I open a pdf or spreadsheet now I get in-app pop-ups about some new AI integration, and I feel like if it actually did anything useful they wouldn't have to push it so hard.

White Lotus was okay, but a more interesting watch recently has been the SPX

I can’t even say how many times I’ve assigned Kant or Nietzsche or even Plato and undergrads say something like “this guy doesn’t make any sense” rather than just admit they didn’t understand.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

While I do live in PA, I'm going to have to insist that people stop congratulating me on the Super Bowl win. I barely contributed.