The President's Brain has been raptured.

This is like watching a live action reading of the most unhinged Facebook group posts in your local area.

cute idea for a hot take but afaik there isn’t evidence that ai systems can, uh, effectively record and codify tacit knowledge in institutions.

And so I find myself back in Sweden. Last time I was in the country I ended up with 3 stitches after a knife fight with some rye bread. This time there’s a sauna in my hotel room. What could possibly go wrong? (I need to remain uninjured for Gothenburg book fair on Weds & Thurs 🤞)

Was this not… what critical AI researchers have been saying this entire time?

I am genuinely thrilled when someone senior to me remarks on how they are barely holding it together these days, and that their ducks are not in a row and, in fact, their ducks are feral and rioting. It makes me feel 100 times better. May we all share the chaos.

🔊 The one in which @drkatedevlin.bsky.social chats with @alexvont.bsky.social about a 🤖 future. “It’s just so baked into everything. So how do we resist when we can’t escape it?” “So it’s not that we’ve under estimated it, I think we’ve been ambushed by it.” 🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

AI promised helpful assistants. Instead, some users find “friends,” therapists, even lovers. But when bots reflect our thoughts back at us, paranoia, mania and worse can follow. @drkatedevlin.bsky.social joins @alexvont.bsky.social, to discuss the risks of chatbots. Listen now: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Have just recorded an episode of @bunkerpod.bsky.social on AI-induced psychosis with the brilliant @drkatedevlin.bsky.social – coming this week I think. If governments won’t regulate and AI businesses won’t regulate themselves (lol), the courts may effectively force them into harm reduction.

Exciting to see this ancient law, which baffled scholars for centuries, finally being used.

Can’t get enough of flegs* so have returned to Fleg Land, my native soil, for 24hrs. England are amateurs in comparison. (*am actually mighty sick of flegs)

Just what every woman wants: an unsolicited pic from some guy they don’t know.

Now booking! "Annie Bot vs The Tech Bros." SF’s influence on modern tech culture. 🗓️ Thurs 2 Oct, 1pm, online Join Clarke Award winner Sierra Greer + expert panel: @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @laurenbeukes.com Jen Wong, Science Gallery London Register👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...

*NEW* AI and power: Current LLM alignment centralises control over knowledge production and governance within already influential institutions. Inclusive datasets are a good start, but limited. We propose decentralising alignment via context, pluralism, and participation. arxiv.org/abs/2509.08858

I can't tell if this is actually more concerning OR if headline should be "the investment bubble has overestimated the efficacy of AI in drug discovery and investors are disappointed by short-term returns" www.ft.com/content/9a8a...

Am at the UKAIRS conference in Newcastle: a showcase of AI research funded by UKRI. Great event for catching up with the community. Best bits for me were Wendy Hall’s keynote, @sanakb.bsky.social in conversation with DSIT’s Chris Johnson, and @ginasue.bsky.social quoting The Pixies during her panel.

There’s a deal on my book at the moment if you fancy reading about why the media is broken or sending a copy to a relative who reads far too much from the Daily Mail www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Med...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

I was back at work this week after a not remotely restful few weeks of annual leave and last night had a long and convoluted dream about doing a one-way ANOVA. I think I need a holiday.

"Annie Bot vs The Tech Bros" 🤖 Clarke Award winner Sierra Greer & expert panel @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @laurenbeukes.com & Jen Wong explore SF’s influence on modern tech culture. 🗓️ Thurs 2 Oct, 1pm 📍Online / King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...

Looking for a job in AI/ML? Interested in climate change? 1 year interdisciplinary research role at King's College London using ML to quantify uncertainties in future sea level rise: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL498/p... Please share - thanks #MachineLearning #Climate @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Sarah Hall’s new book, Helm, is in bookshops now and the icing on the cake is this “HUMAN WRITTEN” maker’s mark on the cover to denote that AI was not used in writing this book. Nice one, @faberbooks.bsky.social .

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I just got to use the word “wank” on Radio 4. A proud moment. Also the bit where I suggested people could set self-driving cars on fire was definitely followed by me stating “but you shouldn’t do that”. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

I wrote about the tragic death of Adam Raine and the venal negligence of "AI Safety." www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...

AI is not the new oil. From a class action standpoint, it may be a ford pinto stuffed with asbestos and doused in nicotine.

I can save you the effort. Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer. To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers. If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.

“How do you feel about seagulls, Kate?”

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse

Everybody’s wanting to talk about the AI psychosis thing today (NB: it’s not a clinical diagnosis). I just talked to 5Live about it; BBC Berkshire up next, and Times Radio tomorrow. In short: it’s the ELIZA effect writ large. (Also, it’s not psychosis.)

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

I am on annual leave — let’s call it a staycation as I’m spending it at home doing DIY — and am trying hard not to read AI-related stuff on here. Alas (or fortunately), I follow people who say interesting things about AI, so it’s inescapable, so instead I escape and go back to repairing windowsills.

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

FCKING GULLS. SHUT UP SHUT UP.

Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if you’ve ever been a woman and tried talking to men online, falling for an AI is probably the better option.

The current 10x obsession is so very strange to me. As though you could meaningfully measure the size of a revolution or indeed the speed ... you can't 'measure' human affairs like that, only business processes or computational processes. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Bouba and kiki but it’s coffee cup choice time.

I want to see this reported with “We asked an AI Professor for comment but she was laughing too hard.”

chatgpt 5 bring wife back. How bring wife back

The complete lack of regard for the Y-axis hurts me physically #GPT5

Cannot be arsed to join the latest round of “but everyone is using/will use LLMs discourse” except to say that a) people should have the option to reject genAI but that’s hard as it’s being relentlessly pushed; and b) the future isn’t determined yet so why shill for an entirely shitty version?

I am just so tired of constant generative AI bullshit: the upstream exploitation, the flawed output, the downstream harms. All of it about money and power. Day in, day out. Maybe one good use case for every 10 bad ones. (I’m on annual leave for three weeks from Friday; it cannot come fast enough.)

Reminder:

The kid who wailed “BUT DADDY, THE PIG DIDN’T DO IT!” when Babe was framed for the sheep murder in the 1995 family-friendly classic, Babe.

Our dog and my friends’ dog got on really well this evening and they’re both beautiful dogs so I planned a full dog wedding in my head and then my husband went and spoiled it all by saying “dogs can’t get married” and frankly the dogs and I don’t need that kind of negativity thanks.

Hello, I’m a Professor in a movie that requires talking to an academic expert. I wear tweed, my office is large and lamp-lit, and I’m always male.

Noted but ignored.