This? This is a TERRIBLE FAILURE MODE because it **does not indicate that a failure occurred** on top of that, it has introduced new and extremely dangerous risks

Epic has a new AI summary generating tool, and I noticed that it completely hallucinated a GI bleed for one of my patients last night.

you can't justify a trillion dollar market cap on shrimp jesus pics. you can justify it if it's the main tool insurance companies use to deny healthcare, or if it's the tool governments use to deny people benefits.

well, this was quick www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...

Ask vendors. Ask administrators. Ask reps. Ask. In public.

“The robot dogs are not armed, but each unit incorporates video cameras, night vision, and communication systems that are used to issue warnings or instructions.”

Ask vendors. Ask administrators. Ask reps. Ask. In public.

So. Everybody knows that "AI" is the future and inevitable and everyone loves it. That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products.

I'm really glad more and more people are noticing correlationism, part of the conspiratorial logic of AI... Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2025). A Metatheory of Classical and Modern Connectionism. Psychological Review. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... PDF: repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/ha...

Trailer itself aside, boy oh boy the marketing head’s response looks absolutely human written. Not extruded at all. Way to build confidence about the script! screenrant.com/mandalorian-...

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

“The surgeon warned Acclarent “there were issues that needed to be resolved”... Despite that Acclarent “lowered its safety standards to rush the new technology to market,” & set “as a goal only 80% accuracy for some of this new technology before integrating it into the TruDi Navigation System.”

Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

“In its discussions with government officials, Anthropic representatives raised concerns that its tools could be used to spy on Americans or assist weapons targeting without sufficient human oversight, some of the sources told Reuters.”

With news today about a surge in gas-fired power generation for data centers and AI, here's an occasional reminder that I maintain Against AI and Its Environmental Harms, an open library with journalism, peer-reviewed research, and other media for teaching: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Let them eat slop

Pygmalion Displacement: 9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it? 10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users? PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social

Hey so here's a little retrospective on Google's fall visit to my campus. open.substack.com/pub/kconrad/...

Hey so here's a little retrospective on Google's fall visit to my campus. open.substack.com/pub/kconrad/...

"AI didn't just increase its footprint in Washington in 2025. It ate tech lobbying whole." www.axios.com/2026/01/23/a...

What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

Democratic accountability requires following power where it moves. Traditional mechanisms—public notice, comment, judicial review—were designed for formal rulemaking. We now need accountability frameworks that cut through the mirage of AI deregulation.

#ai companies have been steadily moving into schools across North America in the last year. They are spending millions of dollars on advertising. Parents often don't know the negative effects of AI, and educators are being told to use it by administrators blown away by slick presentations. 1/2

I had to send an email to my kid's teacher. Thankfully they weren't having the kids interact with it directly but I was still furious

Seems like only a few years ago this type of thing was a scandal.

Many critical AI resources are written for teachers, rather than students. I wrote this for undergrad students dealing with “AI literacy” in the humanities, hoping to raise more fundamental questions about what it means to write. People have added it to syllabi, so maybe you’ll find it useful, too.

Cops forced to explain why improv comedy generated police report claimed officer transformed into frog

We have a new year’s tradition of making hats. Here’s mine for this year. Happy New Year, y’all. 💕🥳

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

"i have moderate views on LLMs"

I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Hallelujah!

“This ruling is a clear affirmation that AI cannot be deployed as a shortcut around union rights, ethical journalism, or human judgment.” @pen-guild.bsky.social

Got to play on the same bill (and for one song, the same stage) with my hubby for the first time in over a decade. Live music, all ages show. Young people at one point breakdancing to old-time music. ❤️

A pleasant surprise in our Northern sky here in Lawrence, KS. I've caught auroras through my camera but this was also visible to the naked eye (though not as bright as via my iPhone, here)

Hit the breaking point this morning with Michigan after hearing about their planned data center in Ypsi. Put all my in-progress posts on the back burner to write this (which I have also sent to UMGiving). substack.com/@kconrad/not...

"We lived in intense silent fear as an algorithm meticulously tore our family apart…This AI chatbot perfectly mimicked the predatory behaviour of a human groomer, systematically stealing our child's trust and innocence.”

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Here's some of what I've learned.

Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...