Not quite. They also perked up their ears at the simulation hypothesis and/or solipsism.

I spent 20 years teaching philosophy as a woman and lol I never thought I’d have so much in common with the Pope

Amazon doesn't want AI agents shopping on humans' behalf. A judge just said the AI agent companies have to respect that and keep their agents out. Where are the LMS companies saying, "We don't want AI agents completing learning activities on students' behalf"? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

If this happens, we won't be curators. We will be reduced to micro-workers using AI to do our checks on AI-generated papers as quickly as possible to meet the tight demands of our shitty jobs. It will be AI checking AI with humans sitting in the middle who can be conveniently blamed for any errors.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

This is going to hurt trans folk, intersex folk, and all women. And if past patterns are any indication, it will disproportionately affect racialized women.

The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

Yes, the Turing test is a test of deception. It's based on other Victorian games of deception, including the seance. As I laid out in this CBC ideas piece, with help from several amazing scholars. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

"What happened to me, and to thousands of others performing this invisible labor, was not just exploitation. It was a systematic erasure of our humanity in service of building the very technologies that would replace us." data-workers.org/wp-content/u...

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

This is so absolutely predictable: ‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’

I think sometimes about the fact that I had to get a Ph.D. in order to have a voice to speak and people like Elon Musk think that living on Mars is a good idea and that gets taken seriously.

"The Pentagon, AI Guardrails, and the Expansion of Autonomous Authority." Pressure to remove safety restrictions raises questions about domestic surveillance, lethal autonomy, and who sets the limits when AI meets state power. No paywall. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

i keep saying they're essentially an attack on shared context, flattening and destroying information about sources that was present in the training data

I sincerely thought someone was making a joke when I saw a post about Sam Altman referring to the energy required to "train a human," but no, he really is that guy

Oh interesting I wonder where they learned to just steal information to train their models like that www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

"It only takes a few minutes before there’s subtle or overt misogyny, such as comment sections on a girl’s post filled with remarks about her body, videos made by men or boys captioned with a degrading joke, and even topics such as domestic violence or rape, trivialized and laughed about."

Prediction: within 48 hours, college presidents and deans will start calling their professors out of touch and outdated if they don’t “redesign their instruction around responsible use” of the “cheats its way through the whole course for you” AI bot.

Evan Soloman ( @evansolomon.bsky.social the Federal Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation) needs to respond to this.

We're hiring in AI ethics. Assessment of applications will begin on March 1, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Dr. Frankenmuppet (Only the creature would be played by a human.)

Tired: "Why doesn't the left want to deal with AI?" Wired: "Why aren't 'AI' companies being forced to deal with the copious deployment of their product in blatant scams and grifts?"

i got so mad about this article that i blogged about it aftermath.site/ai-romance-n...

Here's a very cool publication that I had a chance to be a small part of!! www.routledge.com/Feminist-Eth...

American friends who can travel, please come. I miss you. Joy, Care, and Resistance Forty-Third International Social Philosophy Conference University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada July 16-18, 2026 cswip.ca/call-for-pap...

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

Our “is there a doctor on the airplane?” moment has come at last

I joined the @cyborggoddess.bsky.social podcast to talk about how cultural assumptions, power, and interpretation shape the way robots are built, deployed, and understood, and what that reveals about us. cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...

Behind schedule, but S4E6 of Cyborg Goddess is up!! I interview @jgcarpenter.com about her fascinating research into our relationships with robots, and something she calls 'the human gaze'. Get it here, or wherever you get your podcasts. #feminism #robots cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Yesterday I overheard a conversation where one person advised another to "AI search it" when neither of them knew the answer to the question before them. These statistical bullshit tools are advertised as powerful sources of knowledge. People accept them as such. And the consequences are deadly.

Tomorrow on the podcast: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social close the book (and press play) on CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY. This week we're checking out Lena Dunham's 2022 film adaptation, starring Bella Ramsey and Andrew Scott!

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.

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...

I worked for a big academic publisher and right before I quit they stopped copyediting/proofreading to cut costs. The editors are acquisitions editors; they are not checking citations, and there's no one down-chain to do it in most cases. That's how you get slop citations.

this piece by @marcusolang.substack.com is a must read “There’s a growing community (cult?) of self-proclaimed AI detectives, who have designed and detailed what they consider tells, and armed their followers with a checklist of robotic tells.”

NEW: A report found that a significant number of kids and teens are using AI companions. More striking: themes of violence — which can include sexual violence — drove more engagement among young users than any other type of content, according to the report. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Who could have seen this coming? (Literally, everyone working in this space)

I want my AI minister to talk about the desperate need we have for regulation, and to talk about safety in an era where chatbots are literally encouraging suicide and other harmful behaviour, but I guess that's not what we're getting. . .

To be 'fair' the Amazon AI can't lie. As Henry Frankfurt argues, lying entails knowing the truth and intentionally hiding it from others in order to deceive them. AI doesn't do that. It bullshits. It doesn't know or care what the truth is. It just spouts stuff that sounds good.

Grave of the Fireflies. I loved it. It broke me. I can never watch it again.

On news that Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, resurfacing this on worst case scenarios and what to do about it from Daniel Barcay, Executive Director of the Center for Humane Technology.

"In October, based on OpenAI’s own estimates, WIRED reported that “every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis.” "

New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...