THIS WEEK in the email subjectlines of AI profs: "Introduction.pdf attached (200 pages) a chapter of [book URL] (10,664 pages)" #AIEthics #genAI #lose

We need a better expression than "developing intimate relationships with AI." You can fall in love "with"* a statue, but you don't have a relationship with a few kilobytes of dedicated memory in an enormous platform service. * German is better here: 1/2

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

When I went to the academia/, .edu site to delete my account, I noticed twelve AI podcasts about my articles posted on my profile without my knowledge or consent. Now they can create AI versions of users for whatever they want, sold to whoever they want, anywhere they want, for as long as they want.

To long but should read anyway — a smoking gun’s been found 40 years later, and there’s still investigation to be done about how close the uk came to using nukes.

Why do males and females often differ in traits? The expected answer: selection. But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

Whisper it softly - as it really doesn't fit the narrative - but the AfD has markedly underperformed in a series of recent mayoral elections in Germany's eastern states. Often where the rival candidate was a dynamic local figure commanding broad "popular front" support.

Today marks the culmination of European #MobilityWeek 🚲 🛹With 2,448 participating towns & cities across the EU 🛼Car-free Sunday, with Brussels becoming the largest car-free zone in Europe ...and a strong message: rethinking mobility can lead to cleaner air & safer streets.

It's very hard to keep a course on the Politics and Governance of AI up to date. And not because of the AI, that sincerely isn't changing as fast as geopolitics and geoeconomics. But arguably AI is helping us change that fast – conventional AI is very good for logistics.

✍️ Doing minor updates to my chapter for the forthcoming 'Artificial Intelligence and power in government' edited volume that brings together 19 chapters from public policy, public administration & law & should be out in early 2026 link.springer.com/book/9783032... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

The US joined BRICS?

So the Trib did keep the sign visible. You can read the sign better here bsky.app/profile/nycs...

Asking journalists to sign a pledge not to disclose anything the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see just as Pentagon is: -sending troops into US cities -illegally murdering alleged low level drug runners -possibly preparing to invade Venezuela

If Trump is conducting sensitive government business via Truth Social DMs, it raises the obvious question of how good Truth Social's encryption is, who has been trying to listen in, and how?

It's funny how the proclamation text directly contradicts what the administration is actually implementing right now. H-1Bs won't face travel bans and steep costs until next year. Looks like someone in the Trump admin missed Proclamation Writing 101. www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Yes, just click on Terms of Use and you can access your account and delete it. I just did!

Is anyone else concerned that Wise now demands not only a photo of your national ID, but also a picture of you so close to your face? @boblord.bsky.social @conjugateprior.org @chris-j6n.bsky.social

How do we delete our accounts without accepting the new terms? Is there a class action about this yet?

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Tightening the Regulatory Grip: Local Regulatory Stringency and Sectoral Platform Regulation in EU Cities Drapalova & @kaiweg.bsky.social in Regulation & Governance on how local communities defend themselves from at least some global monopolies eg airbnb uber onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

on.ft.com/3IxMjYm And this applies to cryptos as well…

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"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

IDK. If tech of any size could provide provably ‘sovereign’ separable cybersecure complexes, and set themselves up to legally decouple by jurisdiction if eg the US backed Russia in a European war, then everyone could be a lot better off than if transnational corporations were forced to choose sides.

I love this whole wonderfully evocative thread about Ötzi the Iceman and his final journey so much 😍😭🧪

In 2015 Turkey shot down something in its airspace that was a lot more expensive than one of these.

Reminds me of some older biological anthropologists admitting there was something to the aquatic ape hypothesis, and it might have got further if it wasn’t a woman promoting it.

Could I just complain about a reviewer who thinks "near the beginning of this century" couldn't extend into the 1990s 😡 cc @vheddesheimer.bsky.social

Has someone written a good Wired- or Atlantic-like article about "how you've come to train a chatbot to look sentient to you" or should I finish writing mine? #AIEthics

I’m just going to play that South Park episode on a loop at people now. It was so spot on

Why AI could make people more likely to lie Coverage of our recent paper by THe Independent, with nice commentary by @swachter.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The real tragedy is forcing abducted Ukrainian children to work in weapon factories, disgusting www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...

I covered the protests in London against Trump for @wired.com. Protesters aren't convinced by the AI deal from US tech giants: They want to know what the UK is giving them in exchange for up to $45bn in investment and where the power for data centers will come from www.wired.com/story/climat...

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

Also kind of terrified about an all male #AIEthics event.

When did pubmed grow a disclaimer?

Jesus Christ.

Pyongyang on the Plains. Oklahoma targets teachers for insufficient mourning of Charlie Kirk.

New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

WSJ reports on “America’s resurging love of cocaine” — as Trump’s campaign “to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction.” @wsj.com @bgrueskin.bsky.social www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Reasoning LLMs from Google DeepMind and OpenAI both just achieved gold medal performances in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) - they got gold in the International Math Olympiad (IMO) back in July https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/17/icpc/

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

In 2023, Kabosu was honored by a monument in her hometown of Sakura, one I visited this summer. The inscription reads "On Feb 13th, 2010, Kabosu graced in the internet, becoming the world's most beloved meme. She is wholesome, calm and accepting, inspiring her devotees to Do Only Good Everyday"!

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

The reason why LLMs fail to play a game of chess, even though they can cite the rules from their training data, is an awesome example of what's stopping autonomous AI agents from being reliable. Great discussion between @garrykasparov.bsky.social ♟️ and @garymarcus.bsky.social 🧠 on limits of GenAI.

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

For non Americans, ABC and Sinclair are usually just boring, not even slightly partisan. Left over from the long period with only three broadcast TV networks (others were CBS and NBC; no political differentiation when I was growing up, just different stables of entertainers and artists.)

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