Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities! www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...

"Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)": jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

"Labour want 'Panopticon' to have 'eyes of the state on you at all times'" uk.news.yahoo.com/labour-want-...

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Yay.

"God’s life-giving gift, water, is the cause for the creation of gardens (Burnet 1920, p. 35)" Academic publishing in 2026, eh? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

BREAKING: Technology Secretary Liz Kendall says creating ”non-consensual intimate images”, including with X’s Grok, will be made illegal this week

My word. (Again.) Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Over 90% of Series Streaming in 2024 Were From White Creators, UCLA Diversity Study Finds www.thewrap.com/streaming-se...

OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion ft.trib.al/kpZiA3a

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

I suppose it's what we deserve www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/04/b...

A thought-provoking question. www.dailydot.com/news/joe-rog...

Today's @liverpoolecho.co.uk front page

I've written a short comment regarding this new MIT study that is being passed around and why it is horseshit. "11.7% of US workforce is being replaced by AI" my ass. Thought that might be of interest. Also - thanks for all your work, you are one of the best resources out there.

Beep? Boop. 🧪 They used an automated tool to detect AI papers after human readers got suspicious. Peer reviews were the worst, at 21% flagged as totally-AI generated. 1% of papers were flagged as fully AI, 9% more than 50%. By @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social:

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn. Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...

¡Criminalmente!

From now on, when discussing the budget, please use “is this measure bigger than the cost to the exchequer of gen Z drinking less” as your metric for assessing whether something actually raises or costs a significant sum

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now. They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.

This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

New @creativepec.bsky.social report! “Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers” pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...

"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."

'It looks like you're trying to read. Would you like help?'

OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

NEW: I learned a lot talking to Alex Karp's biographer, Michael Steinberger. Namely, that Palantir has ambitions to become what IBM used to be for the U.S. government: its de facto operating system. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Mavis Staples sings Sparklehorse? Cor. youtu.be/HAZGQG3yHNo?...

The fact that these are the numbers the company will put on the record … www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

I'm old enough to remember when parents groups put warning stickers on CDs because they worried suggestive lyrics might lead to anything from drug use to teen sex to suicide. But if a robot explicitly takes you through the steps rather than a subtle Judas Priest lyric, I guess it's okay.

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

"We all knew a while ago just how badly the promise of this Labour government was failing when it comes to our sector. This white paper simply reinforces that we are on our own, that government is not interested in proactively reforming the HE system and has no new ideas to offer"

A family’s lawsuit against OpenAI over their teen son’s death has taken an even darker turn, with their amended complaint alleging that the company intentionally softened protections against user self-harm in the months before his suicide, prioritizing engagement instead of safety.

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it. @eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome. My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

🎵'Everybody knows the scene is dead/ There'll be a GitHub repo for your bed'🎵

"Idi Amin x 20" - this is Tory policy now.