Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce arxiv.org/abs/2506.06576

Our current theme for #ParshaChat text study is reading the text with the assumption that we are supposed to care about people. If you have questions about #ParshaChat or how to participate, please feel free to @ or DM Rabbi @RutiRegan.bsky.social with questions!

I started to think of something funny to write about this... perhaps from the viewpoint of a week-smoking conspiracy theorist, saying the AIs / LLMs are trying to distract the smart humans while they use their minions to take over the world. But it's even worse, they're just statistical sandpaper.

Might be a good idea to reconsider the way we do and encourage publications in research...

I find it wild that the journals don't check references. So what are the journals even for? (rhetorical) Springer's solution? An in-house AI tool 🤦

I mentioned in book buying that we need to be wary of AI in cooking and crafting books going forward and a coworker had a huge reaction, demanding to know where I had heard that and getting mad. No idea why, but I stand by what I said.

This story has WAAAAAAAAY more going on than just some made up references. The author admits using ChatGPT, but says her brain injury led to editorial mistakes, and it took three 3️⃣ tries to get a reference list with all real references. NONE of which lets the reviewers and editors off the hook!🪝

This is the "intelligence" Sam Altman is selling.

Watching white people wake up real time to how many people around them have learned that they don’t have to do the work, just look like they do and are rewarded for it…. And that’s set a lovely space for AI Is …

I have had this experience with student papers (not lately, thankfully) and it's extremely frustrating when a reference cites a real journal, or a real article title, but then the pages are wrong, volume is wrong, or it's a different topic entirely. Time-wasting research madlibs. These products suck

I recall an article in the ISI magazine back in the day when the citation indexes were print only, they said they found that up to 30% of citations were mangled,and I think 5 or 10% didn't exist.

I’ve already had about 15-20 requests from faculty and students this semester asking me to run down citations that don’t exist. I’ve never further pried about the source — but it may become part of my routine to ask if was out of a published journal article — and if they will send it to me. 🫠

Friends if you were NOT checking every single reference when peer-reviewing, you sure as hell better be doing it now.

The information ecosystem is collapsing and I'm not sure how we're going to save it.

I spent a full day helping a student try to track down a citation she’d seen referenced. We kept going further and further back until we figured that someone had botched it beyond recognition. At least a dozen papers had cited it sight unseen. They just cited the same unfindable incorrect citation

In many ways, it’s not even the original use of AI that shocks me - it’s that these ‘authors’ (in the loosest possible sense) don’t even bother to check what the AI has produced, despite how much we know about hallucinations. That’s a whole new level of pathological laziness. 📚

These are *human problems*. People are wailing because LLMs hallucinate sources when they should be wailing because the people who publish the scientific papers *don’t check*. Every reputable legal journal in the country checks every single citation painstakingly in every paper. Scientists don’t?

What we’re learning is that scientists don’t cite check each others’ work when reviewing. What are they reviewing, pray tell? Is the entire vaunted world of scientific research reliant on the Honor System for citations? It seems it was that way for *data* for decades. Now we find no cite checks?!

I just peer reviewed an article and spent too much time verifying that the references exist & were referenced accurately, all while being paranoid that the article was written by an LLM. it's not worth the effort. And then i see this kind of slop getting published and i wonder why i even bother.

Maybe one argument for primarily-physical collections is that it's so much harder to ignore their existence 🤔 (I'm very familiar with deferred maintenance in buildings, but at least it's difficult to simply ignore the ongoing presence of books &c on shelves. And even deaccessioning is work.)

I just noticed this in a paper I was reading for my research (different journal), went citation chasing and the referenced article didn't exist! Also noticing that some will cite papers that don't actually support what they stated - one actually contradicted the statement!

Problems with using AI when writing papers - "Waite searched for the full list of references and discovered that 12 of the 14 didn’t exist. Such cases frequently result from hallucinations generated by large language models such as ChatGPT."

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Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs

I'm on my way for more flowers in my sketchbook so here are pink clematis from today! 🌸 #gouache #art #illustration

I figure a lot of folk I know here probably already follow @theradr.bsky.social and their fabulous site/blog "Life is a Sacred Text." So excited by their new post about the OTHER women in the story of Esther & Purim. www.lifeisasacredtext.com#/portal/sign...

Hikaru Fujita has become a powerful political symbol in Japan after campaigning for, and winning, a seat in Japan’s House of Representatives while pregnant. More in the latest Ms. Global: msmagazine.com/2026/03/05/m...

anyway a 10th person has died in ice custody this year

“Ultimately, the researchers analysed 191 reviews. They found that those with a librarian on the author list scored 15.4% higher on their quality assessment than did reviews that didn’t involve an information specialist1.” www.nature.com/articles/d41... #medlibs

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do." This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

Epstein responds in the affirmative, insisting "no really smart women---none." Schank, in turn, admits that his "very best Phd student was female," but laments that she "decided to quit being a professor," adding "that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap."

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

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I'm not sure either. It feels a little less personal to me, maybe? Like less of an acknowledgement of Moses as existing in relationship to other people. #ParshaChat

and the way the things he says & the way he says it HAVEN'T CHANGED. Don't tell me that we can't learn anything from people 2500 yrs ago because everything was different then, when it's THE SAME SHIT #ParshaChat

Also the Steam Hams Megilah that @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social yer.bsky.social made remains one of the funniest things I have ever seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6HC... #ParshaChat

Following up on the Parsha:Purim parallels: The lovely things in the Tabernacle don't just appear, they come from human labor & human cooperation. The modern Achasheverosh wants things (gold, yachts, books, pictures) WITHOUT human labor or cooperation, just by wishing or ChatGPT #ParshaChat

this is what i kept screaming during the build-up to the Iraq War. We had HUGE protests. it's like they never happened #ParshaChat

#ParshaChat rocks are really cool and anybody who tells you otherwise has no wonder in their heart. The truest joy a human being can experience is being a kid and finding a cool rock. I still have like seven or eight cool rocks that I found in my childhood bedroom

this is such an important point, for our individual lives & even more for all collective (government, corporate) decisions. The cost of owning housing isn't just the property value, it MUST include ongoing maintenance--otherwise it's a slum. #ParshaChat

#parshachat he wants to possess nice things and he sees human beings as things to possess, and the thing about a possession is that you can do whatever to it and it can’t stop you because you own it. Which is the reason why a healthy society does not allow for the possession of humans

#ParshaChat when I say he “wants to possess nice things” I am keeping in mind Granny Weatherwax’s well-known quote as to the nature of sin:

Nothing wrong with wanting a rock collection, rocks are cool! There's a lot wrong with rocks being trophies of empire and oppression and destruction, though. #ParshaChat

I'm thinking in part of this verse: Esth. 1:8 And the rule for the drinking was, “No restrictions!” For the king had given orders to every palace steward to comply with each man’s wishes. And how Vashti saying no was completely unacceptable and unforgivable for him. #ParshaChat

I think what Achasheverosh wants is considerably worse than just wanting to posses nice things. There's something specific about *how* he wants them and what he's willing to do. #ParshaChat

I think we're all way more familiar than we'd ever wanted to be with gold-as-obscenity these days. #ParshaChat

There is something powerful about precious metals and jewels and fanciness and fine fabrics and all of that. The monetary value is part of it, but it's not the *only* part of it. There's a kind of thing that's either finery or obscenity depending on how it's used. #ParshaChat

#ParshaChat I wonder sometimes if it’s purposeful that Purim always falls in the second half of Exodus, to contrast the usage of all these luxuries for a divine purpose in the tabernacle with their usage for personal enjoyment in Ahashverosh’s palace

#ParshaChat famously the first and eighth chapters of the megillah lists quite a few different rare fabrics and stones, many of which are also found repeatedly in this week’s parasha