Back in September, OpenAI released a paper showing that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. It's how the system fundamentally works. Which means there is no "fix."

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

My university might be OK with it de-skilling students but I am certainly not going to let it de-skill me

“Rejecting or resisting a commercial technology designed to attempt a mass wealth transfer and to erode public institutions is a valid political position.”

It's U.S. foreign policy that the whole world must serve up our data to the AI giants that are now an arm of the U.S. government. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

Our book is published!!! mitpress.mit.edu/978191598348... There is supposed to be an open access version available, which does not seem to be actually available, and which I am doggedly pursing, but for now: hurrah! Print enjoyers, get your copies!

Anthropic was supposed to be the "good" one, right?

After 10 years and no evidence that it ever worked for crime prevention the Dutch police has decided to stop using their predictive policing system CAS!! amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/document/165...

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*. www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

OpenAI has disbanded the team it formed in 2024 to advance the company's stated mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. They’re speed running the rise and fall of Google’s reputation down to when they got rid of “Don’t be evil” as a company motto.

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is now saying Trump is right to roll back climate science and pollution protections at the EPA.

The Real Cost of the UK’s ‘Free AI Training for All’ is Democracy via @elinorcarmi.bsky.social and co. Thank you for writing this. www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...

Google are *proactively* supporting ICE by voluntarily providing data without legal requirement to do so. Look at this list: "Google also turned over Thomas-Johnson’s IP addresses, phone numbers, subscriber numbers and identities, and credit card and bank account numbers linked to his account." 🧵

The role of #GenAI in children’s development is ambivalent, and their opportunities (scaffolding learning) can easily turn into harmful consequences (deskilling and disempowerment). Read more here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... #SaferInternetDay

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

You mean the same Gemini being pushed into K-12 schools?

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's COO, donated $25m to a MAGA Superpac, spare me finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...

It's a sign of the times that Big Tech has switched from greenwashing to datacentre-washing. In actual fact, the AI industry has revitalised fossil fuel and the imperialist credo that burning as much energy as possible is the route to worldly power. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/m...

This new paper by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social makes "one simple point: AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions." Grim but important reading: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“There is no more “state of the humanities” as such. There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack..And there is no condition in which education is under attack in which civil society can remain unimperiled..We are all humanists now”

“Een universiteit is geen plaats voor tijdswinst en efficiëntie, maar voor een uitdagend en moeizaam proces van intellectuele zelfontwikkeling.” apache.be/2026/01/09/a... @apache.be

Goede opinie! Dit geldt ook voor andere universiteiten. Ik zou hierbij willen toevoegen naast het pedagogische dat je momenteel geheel niet kan spreken van verantwoord gebruik door de negatieve impact van ontwikkeling genAI op milieu en sociale rechtvaardigheid. apache.be/2026/01/09/a...

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

At last, a common cartoon villain we can all agree on: big tech.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

I've got a new major essay in The Ideas Letter - on the need to rethink socialism in the age of AI www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...

It is so striking to see the disclaimer "AI can make mistakes. Check outputs before using" on every single piece of software. Imagine the equivalent warning label on the Ford Pinto. "The fuel tank ruptures and bursts into deadly flames when crashed. Do not crash the Ford Pinto while driving"

We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

Tech bros 🤝 eugenics

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“When teachers value the polished but anodyne text extruded from these systems over students’ authentic voices, we reinforce harmful linguistic ideologies”- @emilymbender.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Why are tech billionaires fixated on doomsday? Because "apocalypse capitalism" is the business model— existential threats as trillion-dollar opportunities. New at the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low. European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths! Me in @theguardian.com

Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...