🎙️ New MuckrAIkers episode: The Mythical AI Bear. Jacob & Igor work through a viral blog post, and use two zoological metaphors to unpack how AI discourse flattens genuine concerns about labor, craft & IP into caricature. . . 🐻🐐 👉 kairos.fm/muckraikers/...

What does AI sentience really mean? Host Jacob Haimes chats with Jacy Reese-Anthis (Stanford/Sentience Institute) on moral circle expansion, anthropomorphization & using LLMs for social science. 🎧 kairos.fm/intoaisafety...

30 years of climate governance. Almost none of it informing AI. The governance window in climate was decades. In AI, it may be years. Read more here: kairos.fm/what-ai-gove... #AIGovernance #ClimatePolicy #AIPolicy #TechPolicy

🎙️ New muckrAIkers episode: Big Tech Plans to Move Fast and Break Democracy Jacob and Igor examine techno-authoritarianism and spotlight The Authoritarian Stack, mapping how tech billionaires embedded themselves as US government dependencies. Listen: kairos.fm/muckraikers/...

🎙️Scaling AI Safety Through Mentorship w/ Dr. Ryan Kidd In this episode, Jacob Haimes and Dr. Ryan Kidd discuss building successful AI safety organizations, focusing on MATS Research's growth and the "amplifier archetype" in talent development. Episode: kairos.fm/intoaisafety...

🎙️ New muckrAIkers ep: AI Skeptic PWNED by Facts and Logic Igor's AI skepticism softens after Claude Code proves useful for coding tasks. He and Jacob discuss rote task automation, genuine utility vs. AGI hype, and changes in their bubble analysis. Full episode: kairos.fm/muckraikers/...

Tune into the latest episode of Into AI Safety:"Sobering Up on AI Progress w/ Dr. Sean McGregor" This episode covers the interplay between market-driven and regulatory approaches to AI safety, and the need for trustworthy benchmarking to prove the safety of AI systems. kairos.fm/intoaisafety...

Tune into the latest episode of Into AI Safety, "Against 'The Singularity' w/ Dr. David Thorstad". In this episode, we cover the varying claims on the likelihood of 'The Singularity' hypothesis, and the risks of unfounded forecasting. Full episode up now: kairos.fm/intoaisafety...

Millions are using language models for mental health support, and we're already seeing the damage. Why is this happening, and how can we stop it? Our latest blog post discusses the rise of AI therapy, and the risks of inadequate informed consent. Read more: kairos.fm/sue-your-ai-...

🎉 Just dropped a new Into AI Safety episode! Host @jacobhaimes.bsky.social chats with Alistair Lowe-Norris (ex-Microsoft, now at Iridius) about how responsible AI actually happens in practice.

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🚨 New muckrAIkers: "AI Safety For Who?" @jacobhaimes.bsky.social & @thegermanpole.bsky.social break down how instruction tuning/RLHF create anthropomorphic chatbots that exploit human empathy—leading to mental health harms. kairos.fm/muckraikers/... Find us wherever you listen! (links in thread)

🚨 New Into AI Safety episode is live! Li-Lian Ang from BlueDot Impact discusses their evolution from broad AI safety courses to targeted impact acceleration, addressing elitism in the field, and why we need more advocates beyond just technical researchers. kairos.fm/intoaisafety/e023

🚨 Newest muckrAIkers episode is live! Hosts @jacobhaimes.bsky.social and Igor Krawczuk dig into how the concept of AI "safety" has been co-opted and weaponized by tech companies. kairos.fm/muckraikers/... Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, or whatever podcasting platform you use!

🚨 New Into AI Safety episode is live! I chatted with Andres Sepulveda Morales, founder of Red Mage Creative and organizer of the Fort Collins Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group about surviving the tech layoff cycle, dark patterns in AI, and building inclusive AI communities.

👀 New Into AI Safety episode is live! Will Petillo from PauseAI joins to discuss the grassroots movement for pausing frontier AI development, balancing diverse perspectives in activism, and why meaningful AI governance requires both political engagement and public support kairos.fm/intoaisafety...

🚨 New episode is out: "One Big Bad Bill" - breaking down AI's relevance to Trump's bill. We cover automated fraud detection, government data consolidation, and a 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you listen (links in thread).

New muckrAIkers episode drops! We're breaking down the wild economic claims around AI into 3 buckets, and digging into what the data actually shows 📊 kairos.fm/muckraikers/... You can find the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever else you listen (links in thread).

NEW EPISODE: "Making Your Voice Heard w/ Tristan Williams & Felix de Simone" - where we explore how everyday citizens can influence AI policy through effective communication with legislators 🎙️ kairos.fm/intoaisafety... Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!

New muckrAIkers episode! DeepSeek R1 - What is "reasoning" and does it actually change the AI landscape? Industry fallout, billion dollar market crash, and why we're skeptical about the hype. kairos.fm/muckraikers/... Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Incredibly disappointing to see the current US administration attempting to make safe and ethical "AI" a partisan issue: "The US has also demanded that the final statement excludes any mention of the environmental cost of AI, existential risk or the UN." - www.thetimes.com/article/a7ae... ☹️

This week's episode of muckrAIkers is a sneak preview at all of the stories we soon are going to tackle in depth on DeepSeek R1. Developments are ongoing, but if you want a good 15 minute overview of new so far, check out kairos.fm/muckraikers/... or find us wherever you listen!

Our first digest of 2025 features: - Studying greenhouse gas emissions with Erica Kimei - Yuki Mitsufuji (@sonyai.bsky.social) on AI image generation - @betterimagesofai.bsky.social images competition - Alessio Ragno on transparent Explainable Logic Layers

Super excited to announce our latest episode of muckrAIkers: Understanding AI World Models w/ Chris Canal! We get into test-time compute, the moving goalposts of “AGI,” and so much more kairos.fm/muckraikers/... You can find the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever else you listen.

How governments use facial recognition technology to crack down on protesters #longread restofworld.org/2024/facial-...