I had a realisation Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

It is quite revealing that the investments in AI in education contexts are talked about as "bets" and "gambling." This is correct, since there is no evidence that such investments will result in any improvement. Important to note that LEARNERS are the losers when there is no payoff.

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

The best kind of AI literacy for young children? Don't use AI in schools, teach reality first.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Ok guys should we use the world's remaining carbon budget to A) power the transition to 100% renewables B) power the plagiarism machines that only a tiny managerial minority wants and aren't profitable even though everyone is being forced to use them?

who could have seen this coming

👀 o m g . . . . this should be criminal

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

Energikrisen efter lukningen af Hormuzstrædet presser priserne på benzin, energi og leveomkostninger op. Samtidig høster store selskaber milliarder i ekstra profit uden øget indsats. Derfor bør overnormale profitter beskattes, skriver @runestahl.bsky.social #dkpol politiken.dk/debat/debati...

“Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided ‘at all costs.’ ‘I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.’”

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

One fifth of Lebanon's population is now displaced, with needs growing daily. During his first official visit to Lebanon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Barham Salih, urged a quick end to the conflict before it spirals out of control.

Thanks GenAI for summarizing the recent #NBA game for me. I inadvertently pressed "AI assist" and got this AI slop. Turns out the Blazers won against the Suns, but genAI thinks otherwise 💩 not only does this information ecosystem give me the wrong winning team but also a wrong score 🙄 #AIslop

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study. www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

> text composed by a large language model has made its way into an act of parliament. British laws are already being written by AI. This is the worst of all possible worlds, bloody hell

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/

The war in Lebanon is not over. Strikes continue. Families are fleeing. Over 1 million people are displaced. Please don’t look away.

An Israeli airstrike hit here in Lebanon. This is what remains. Homes destroyed. Lives shattered. Civilians are not a target. They must be protected.

Fantastic opportunity to study tipping points and social contagion 👇 using large scale data

#AI #academia #science The problem is us. There is no way around it. I'm finalising my reviews for a well-known conference and I can see what the other reviewers wrote. One is so clearly AI generated that it hurts reading it. Not "drafted" by AI and revised ... it's a full copy/paste job.

On the verge of Passover, the holiday of liberation, the self-proclaimed Jewish state is planning to ethnically cleanse southern Lebanon of Shia Muslims: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Oh so now copyright matters.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “Its application to residents of the occupied Palestinian territory would constitute a war crime,” said the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk.

“The scale of the nightmare in Gaza and the West Bank is vast. It is her job to somehow absorb and relay it to the rest of the world. That costs her profoundly — more than any American sanctions.”

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

🚨Paper on AI & Copyright Courts have credited AI companies' claims that alignment prevents reproducing copyrighted data. What if finetuning on a simple writing task breaks it. Worse: tuning on just one author (e.g., Murakami) unlocks verbatim recall of 30+ other authors' books (up to 90%) (1/n)🧵

Skal du ud og stemme i dag, og er du stadig usikker hvem du vil stemme på? Før du ukritisk bruger valgtests eller chatmodeller så læs lige dette indlæg i @information.dk af Tess S. Thorsen og mig. www.information.dk/debat/2026/0... #dkpol #dkvalg #folketingsvalg 1/2

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

In @nbcnews.com, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social underscored that the use of AI speeds up the pace of warfare in ways that undermine accountability for mistakes. Speed "is really a cover for indiscriminate targeting when you consider how inaccurate these models are,” says Khlaaf. shorturl.at/tKGjM

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/

Woah....👀 This looks like a fantastic opportunity 👇

3.000 familier kan både få fødevarecheck og blive ramt af ny formueskat". Det kunne man læse i Altinget i går, baseret på tal fra CEPOS. Umiddelbart en klassisk forargelseshistorie. Men historien illustrerer faktisk hvorfor formueskat er nødvendigt 🧵 www.altinget.dk/artikel/nye-...

Der er nu debat om de unoterede aktier i debatten om formueskat (se hvem der ejer dem herunder). En lidt af en gammel traver er blevet hevet af stalden, nemlig at man ikke kan beskatte ikke-realiserede værdier, der er bundet i selskaber, fordi det ikke er 'rigtige penge'. Men det er ikke korrekt.

Hvor robuste er de danske valgtest? Ikke synderligt, viser ny forskning fra ITU 👇 #dkpol #fv26

“As military strikes continue across the country, children are being killed and injured at a horrifying rate, families are fleeing their homes in fear, and thousands of children are now sleeping in cold and overcrowded shelters.” - UNICEF's Edouard Beigbeder Learn more: https://unicef.link/4b0z3Ho

it turns out that the answer to the headline here is: like humans. listen. don't judge, but don't endorse the beliefs, either. as my friend wisely said: “There's value in having friendships where it's like, ‘I love you, but also, you're full of shit.’” www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

NEW Preprint out 🚨 Given the upcoming general elections in Denmark, it’s a perfect time to post about our new preprint (w. @robysinatra.bsky.social & Giovanni Astante) --> arxiv.org/abs/2603.03532 (this work was deemed important and highly relevant for FAccT, but also rejected 🫠) 🧵 1/7

Interesting interview study about AI in the labor process. Best possible atmosphere (well-paid, autonomous) still results in more work, not less, because AI helps you multitask, work during nonwork time, extend your capability into other people's turf (experts then need to clean up vibejobs)

Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez doubled down on his opposition to the attack on Iran by the US and Israel, warning that the conflict risked playing 'Russian roulette' with the lives of millions

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.