My latest poll, conducted with @verasight.io and published at Strength In Numbers, finds a record decade low for a president’s handling of the economy, and voters say they trust Dems by 13 points to handle their most important problem www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-26...

New working paper alert! Prior research mostly looked at Automated Underwriting Systems (AUS) through a micro-lens. We investigate how widespread adoption of AUS reshapes how credit is distributed across entire local and interconnected credit markets. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

The homes serve as a high-end safety net for seniors who move away but can’t easily duplicate decadeslong relationships with their top-tier medical providers. on.wsj.com/3RNlu6M

This is so spot on

Link to the paper algorithmichiring.github.io/paper.pdf

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

I talked to the author of the "Future of Truth" book that turned out to have AI hallucinations. He told me he feels "seduced and betrayed" by ChatGPT, at one point suggesting it might have undermined him on purpose. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Anthropic co-founder to launch AI encyclical with Pope Leo: “His presence…in the Vatican event may offer an opportunity to discuss one of the central questions in AI safety: whether the most powerful systems can be understood well enough to be trusted.” 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Science nerds of BSKY: Next week I’m interviewing Prof. Sir John Bell about recent medical breakthroughs, touching on - Gene therapies & cancer vaccines - Tech in healthcare more broadly - Ethics & regulation This includes a Q&A where I can field your questions. If you have any please post below 🙏

Publish-or-perish creates a strong incentive to put out AI slop. "[Business] schools that compete on the UTD [publication] rankings submitted more papers after ChatGPT, and those additional papers... disproportionately [scored high-probability for AI]." #scicomm 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

For @forbes.com I wrote about Anthropic's Mythos breach, and the implications for corporate governance With such breaches, a board’s failure to demand transparency is no longer just a technical gap, it’s a breach of their fiduciary duty. www.forbes.com/sites/anjana...

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

6. No devices with you (or at least available) while exercising, walking etc. is such an easy win but so easy to fall out of the habit of doing

Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic

It's worth engaging w/ the first contention of the Yale Committee Report: universities aggressively adopting personalized pricing has significantly reduced trust in higher ed: president.yale.edu/sites/defaul... This number is striking: half of Americans think college costs are the same for everyone

I just listened to an extended NPR interview w an education economist about 40 yrs of rising college tuition & student debt, and not a single mention that 40 yrs ago was about the time all states cut higher education budgets, privatized tuition, in order to pay for tax cuts and prisons

women are suffering complications from miscarriages dues to Texas' extreme abortion restrictions: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

The Biden administration led the U.S. auto industry towards strategies centered on EV innovation and competition. The Trump administration led them to unwind those & pivot back to gas. Then, admin policies caused gas prices to inflate. Now, demand for EV autos is 🔥 🔥🔥 and China is reaping $$$

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

Side hatch of Integrity is open! And very shiny, it's saturating the camera

People who study social policy have been warning that the One Big Beautiful Bill is going to be an absolute disaster for rely on the safety net, and these numbers are the canary in the coal mine www.propublica.org/article/ariz...

hey kids you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big* they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

Caveat that I haven’t read the study, but that magnitude is *enormous* and I would be shocked if these findings are reproducible

Next was a thought-provoking panel on the ethical implications of AI in surgical training and practice at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics with Theresa Williamson, @daniellebitterman.bsky.social, Rohaid Ali, and Krystle Tuaño www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx7U... (4/5)

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

How many homepages that were never ever going to change are now updated thanks to vibe coding? ✋

Anthropic's Mythos model represents a dangerous new moment for cybersecurity. Experts tell me that hackers and nation states may catch up within months — and that the cat-and-mouse game between attacker and defender is about to become much more high-stakes www.platformer.news/anthropic-my...

Sincerely hope this works! And I'm old enough to remember Nawaz Sharif's (Shehbaz Sharif's brother) term as PM and the all-too brief period of cordiality and goodwill between India and Pakistan ..

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Dear GOP Senators and Congressmen, and Members of the Joint Chiefs: Would it be okay with you if I listen in when your grandchildren ask you someday why you did and said nothing on April 7, 2026? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

As someone who studies responsible AI, the most concerning things in the @newyorker.com piece on Sam Altman are about AI safety AI safety should be part of corporate governance. We need standards for AI alignment, and push for transparency, reporting and audits www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: If: -the labor force isn’t growing -healthcare adds at least a couple hundred thousand jobs a year then: -non-healthcare industries (85% of the labor market) have to be constantly shedding a modest number of jobs www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Good read about the low quality of Anthropic's AI generated code and how much cruft is building up. Also, this is weird: "detecting user frustration with: /\b(wtf|shit|fuck|horrible|awful|terrible)\b/ Pattern matching for sentiment analysis. At an LLM company."

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Solicitor general: “It’s a new world." Chief Justice: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution." BEST Supreme Court Exchange Ever!

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

Bluesky introduced an AI tool. Anyone who's spent any time on Bluesky can probably guess how that's going... "Attie only has 1,500 followers, meaning that about 83 times more users have blocked the account than followed it." 😳 techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/b...

Meta's new AI support bot probably can't do the one thing millions of people are clamoring for: restoring their wrongfully suspended accounts www.platformer.news/meta-ai-supp...

When LLM agents talk to each other, a new failure emerges: agents abandon their assigned roles and mimic their conversational partner instead. Rates reach as high as 70% with major models — and increased reasoning doesn’t help. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2511.09710

“A former teacher of literature, he saw writers—with their power to evoke alternative worlds—as allies in the struggle against free-floating cynicism, organized hatred, and what he denounced as the ‘globalization of indifference.’” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

So glad for the award for Ryan Coogler #Oscars

Amy Madigan and Ed Harris are a husband and wife duo who both got Oscars! How awesome is that! And beautiful and heartfelt speech #Oscars