People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

Google AI search is going to be great!

The impact of AI is already producing a massive flood of content in so many creative industries--I don't know how we are going review or evaluate all this stuff. The peer review system was already at a breaking point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Lmao

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

The chatbot of the police in the Netherlands reacts to a report of incitement of violence against Palestinians as a case of antisemitism. Likely because the word Palestinian was mentioned. Thinking of the scholars who claimed recently AI can help democracies & governance. LOLwelp #ResistAI #Racism

A Democratic candidate is using AI to write personalised letters to "tens of thousands", based on voter file data and scraped info. Reading the piece, this is a pitch to become a vendor to other campaigns, rather than a viable candidacy... www.govtech.com/artificial-i...

“by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated.” This has always been the case and this shouldn’t even need to be stated. Yet here we are.

The team behind #Subnautica was well on track to receiving a $250 million bonus for the hit game’s highly anticipated sequel. That was until the Krafton CEO asked ChatGPT for help to avoid paying it out fortune.com/2026/03/17/k...

“if children are involved, even 2-3 victims can draw more attention.” :( www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Nicht nur die Hochschule St. Gallen, auch der «Schweizer Monat», mediales Scharnier zwischen Bürgerlich-Liberalen, Rechtslibertären und reaktionären Kulturkämpfern, gibt Curtis Yarvin, dem «einflussreichsten und umstrittensten Denker der Neuen Rechten», ein Forum schweizermonat.ch/nobody-watch...

(2/4) Gegen den belarusischen Autor Sasha Filipenko laufen mehrere Strafverfahren, etwa weil er aus seinem eigenen Buch zitiert hat. In seinem angesichts des Themas schon fast unverschämt unterhaltsamem Gastbeitrag schildert er die bizarre Praxis der Literaturzensur.

🇭🇺🎧 Hungary’s new PM Péter Magyar DJ’d at his own inauguration party in front of Parliament. The Orbán era and its political culture (smear campaigns, fearmongering, hatemongering etc) is gone for good. The latest poll puts Magyar’s Tisza party at 70%. 🎥 @telexhu.bsky.social

As more countries add age restrictions to apps and websites, the EU has flagged that VPNs provide a loophole for people to get around these restrictions. There are proposals to require age verification to use a VPN to close this loophole. Papers please, internet version.

🔎🇷🇺 Inside Russia's elite Bauman University, a secret department trains the GRU's next-gen hackers, saboteurs, and spies. Now, 2,000+ leaked documents expose how its graduates feed the units behind Russia's cyberattacks, election interference, and NATO sabotage.

What if we teach basic computational literacy in schools before we teach AI literacy?

We now have an AI wellbeing index! "Some models are happier than others. Larger models are also consistently less happy than their smaller counterparts." www.ai-wellbeing.org #AIWelfareIsBS

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper? Yes! We call it paper laundering Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like 🧵👇 #ICML2026

Ohne Worte. Curtis Yarvin wird wieder eine Bühne geboten, diesmal beim St. Galler Symposium. (h/t @josserme.bsky.social)

Russian police arrested at least 16 men on extremism charges for belonging to a queer VK dating group, human rights activists report. The legal basis: a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that declared a fictitious "International LGBT Movement" to be an extremist group. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

IT CAN’T CONFESS! IT ISN’T SENTIENT! FFS, people.

Thanks for the shout-out @jlgleason.bsky.social Web search has changed a lot since early 2000s. Yet, papers still rely on Broder's taxonomy of search intent from that time. It's time to change that! In this paper led by Elsa Lichtenegger we present a new taxonomy, accounting for AI search as well!

"Mr. Brin, 52, long showed little interest in politics... But now, like so many other leaders in the traditionally liberal bastion of Silicon Valley, Mr. Brin has shifted to the right."

Unfortunately, the Labour government does not only empower authoritarian and populist narratives in the area of immigration. With a new system to guarantee "free speech" at universities, they legitimize a favorite talking point and gateway drug of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Uh oh.

Amazing that Apple's approach to anything even approaching consenting porn is "not on your life, you filthy pervert" and its approach to nonconsensual porn is, basically, "well, what can ya do"

NEW: We documented almost 100 cases of deepfake sexual abuse happening in schools around the world—with more than 600 children being victimized by their peers. Mostly boys in 25+ countries created explicit imagery of girls they often know from school over the last couple of years

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Ein neuer David gegen Goliath-Kampf: Staatsanwaltschaften aus der Romandie verpflichten Telcos einzelne Websites zu sperren. Obwohl es dafür keine gesetzliche Grundlage gibt. Fast alle (Salt & Co ) setzen brav um. Nur Init 7 will diesen Präzedenzfall verhindern. www.republik.ch/2026/04/14/n...

PDF-Direct Firefox extension ('Bypass "fancy online reader" and just get the darn pdf') updated: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... & now supports ACM ACS Cambridge University Press Elsevier IEEE JSTOR Nature OUP PLOS PNAS Royal Society Publishing Sage Science Springer Nature Taylor & Francis Wiley

Please don’t tell the Americans that this election was not actually about JD Vance. They need it so bad.

Es gibt so Tage, an denen muss man alle 15 Minuten Nachrichten hören, obwohl längst alles klar ist. Aber man will’s einfach nochmal hören.

Keeping this for the future: Orbán on TV saying that the election results are painful but clear. This feels momentous. #Hungary

What a wonderful moment to experience. I lived under Orbán 1, working at CEU… it was nothing compared to what was to come under Orbán 2. So many friends were impacted. Now, many years too late, it is finally the end of Orbán 2. Tomorrow we can talk about the challenges. Today we celebrate!

Congrats 🇭🇺 And this is a reason enough to open a bottle of Hungarian wine this Sunday evening for me! I picked up this one on one of my last visits to Budapest. The harvest year is 2017, the year Orbán went against CEU (and I finished my MA there). Happy to open it to celebrate him losing!

2/3 majority secured! #Hungary

37% of the votes counted, with 132 parliamentary seats projected for Tisza. It seems that a 2/3 majority (133 seats) is well within reach for Tisza. #Hungary

An Wiener Universitäten gibt es jede Menge Wissenschaftler:innen, die wegen Orban Ungarn verlassen mussten. ES GIBT SOGAR EINE GANZE UNIVERSITÄT, DIE WEGEN ORBAN UNGARN VERLASSEN HAT. Warum lädt man da niemand ein? False balancing par excellence.

Hungary, 29.21% counted: Seat projection national parliament TISZA-EPP: 132 (+132) Fidesz/KDNP-PfE: 59 (-76) MH-ESN: 8 (+2) +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary

💥🇭🇺🗳️First results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections are in: with 14.72% counted, the opposition leads with mandates nearing a two-thirds majority. Everything points to Viktor Orbán’s defeat and Péter Magyar becoming Hungary’s next prime minister.

Some hints from polling stations that are fully counted. E.g. this one in Nyíregyháza has swung from the opposition winning by 4pts in 2022 to Tisza winning by 36pts in 2026

HU election update: 15% of the vote in -- Tisza projected at 125 seats and Fidesz at 65 . . . 133 gives Tisza the power to change the constitution.

the election office just updated (at 8:12 CET) -- with 6.6% of the vote counted, Tisza is projected at 110 seats to Fidesz 71. If that holds (and it's still VERY early), Tisza wins.

With 1,000,000+ requests to our website in the last hour, our host is currently unable to restore editing mode to our website. However, results are coming in and you can follow them live - you just need to scroll down a bit until the issue has been resolved. europeelects.eu/2026/04/04/n...

lol www.404media.co/artemis-2-as...

He told ChatGPT he was a nazі іncel who wanted to dіe, then asked how many people you’d have to shoot at his school to get on the news. ChatGPT helped him pick his ammo, pick his target, pick the best time for the massacre, and then told him how to use the gun. Then he did. youtu.be/IbG-JGdGniY

"Orbán's Hungary drove a top university campus into exile. JD Vance said it should be a model for the U.S." www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...