Every expert I trust is saying the same thing about A.I. Here’s president of the Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker—basically one of the smartest people working in artificial intelligence technologies—warning about the serious threats agentic Al systems pose.

New from me: Let’s call AI something else. buttondown.com/creativegood... I'm drawing on the excellent new book "The AI Con" by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social - and our recent Techtonic interview (click "pop-up player" at www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... ).

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Clay Shirky: “Searle took it as axiomatic that the occupant of the Chinese Room could neither read nor write Chinese . . . And what I and many of my colleagues worry is that we are allowing our students to build custom Chinese Rooms for themselves, one assignment at a time.”

Let them play golf.

After crashing the stock market, Trump is now in FL for the rest of the week hosting the Saudi-owned LIV golf league at his course.

Once again, direct use "strict father" metaphor. cc @george-lakoff.com

Unsurprisingly, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is spot-on in this analysis: “A.I.’s most revolutionary potential is helping experts apply their expertise better and faster. But for that to work, there has to be experts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

I highly recommend this (terrifying) listen to better understand what is going on in the US. From the description: "[Gil] Duran writes about the so-called cognitive élite, the right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government."

Company that's wrong about everything wants to be wrong about even more things!

I'm working on a conference presentation for a panel we proposed a year ago entitled "Rhetoric of Science in (Times of) Crisis." I can't for the life of me remember what we thought was a crisis a year ago. #teamrhetoric #4C25 #rhetcomp

Kaine: "You can talk about sending education back to the states. Yeah, that's where we were before Brown v. Board of Education. The states got to decide, and the states made a hell of a lot of decisions that were really awful."

"Tests of AI empathy typically don’t compare a chatbot’s cold comfort with the kind of socially embedded care that truly nourishes us. If they did, the chatbots would lose."

This says it all