AI is already impacting children’s developing brains in profound ways, and kids’ wellbeing is not at the center of tech industry innovation, @drdanasuskind.bsky.social writes‬. “Every time we replace a human with AI, we risk rewiring how a child relates to the world.” thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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The lovely @natlhumanities.bsky.social is hiring a Scholarly Programs Research Manager! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/careers/

It’s kinda funny / harrowing that LLMs didn’t get smarter or less brute-force-y, we just got better graphics cards, and more comfortable with wasting obscene energy on what still remains the most overrated madlibs ever. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

“But can a human life be reduced to a dataset? Can a body be tuned up like a machine? Or is this explosion of self‑tracking simply narcissism redesigned for the age of big data, by a society that has internalised the tech industry maxim that more data is always better?”

The American Institute of Physics is looking for an associate director who will lead our new policy research and analysis function, which is within my portfolio. We will be busy. americaninstituteofphysics.applicantstack.com/x/openings

A bit of a rant from my research leave bubble: I understand, AI is a research topic in vogue now, even in the humanities, but it would be nice if more people actually tried understanding the primary sourcers they use, or at least read beyond their first page.

A helpful discussion of knowledge vs information vs content.

What's troubling about ed tech is that it always promises to be tailored to students' individual needs, but it operates with universal, normative concepts of learning and intelligence.

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

Yet another example of full automation being a dream predicated on profound hubris.

This looks terrific!

For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs: We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI". Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome! 🗓️: deadline December 13 Share 🫶 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

I'm super excited about this program and happy to connect if you're interested in working with me through it!

Cluster hire in AI at the U of Maryland! ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124...

Here's an excellent non-teaching postdoc opportunity in political history/ history of tech and/or media at the Center for American Political History and Technology at Purdue. careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoct...

My just published essay on a major security and privacy conference of NSF, and the larger research program at NSF in these areas (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, or SaTC). #histsci z.umn.edu/NSFSaTC

If it passes regulatory muster, taxpayers will be subsidizing the profits for Microsoft To be clear

well there it is. Elon poisoned local waters with mercury for years and the FAA may have known the FAA said 'We will get back to you' this morning when i asked ahead of the rumored story for @popsci.bsky.social haven't heard anything since, if you can believe it! www.popsci.com/science/spac...

Here is the latest issue of BJHS Themes -- Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power -- which developed out of our Mellon Sawyer Seminar. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What a wonderful initiative! The podcast is wonderful. So excited about the newsletter!

My first post here will be an act of self-promotion. My article of Soviet studies and formal models of creative thinking is out and available via FirstView www.cambridge.org/core/journal...