Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
AI Data Centers Will Be Obsolete (Geometric Reasoning Explained)
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
Human scientists trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks
State-of-the-industry report finds that, despite the limitations of artificial-intelligence systems, researchers have embraced them.
Collection
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Systems are pushing AI, this is a bunch of evidence based links about the problems with that.
Local AI
Resources for a local AI setup
📚 AI (+ nuance)
Researching all aspects of artificial intelligence and its realized and potential implications
AI and the future(s) of [insert domain here]
AI* agents and autonomy
Or “autonomy” * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
AI and/for science
Paper: Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
URL and discussions of the paper "Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies"
AI augmentation vs automation
AI
AI research, critical perspectives, agent design, digital humanities. How AI systems work, their embedded values, and the thinking around building agentic systems.
Malleable Software (by Boris) — Semble
darkshapes
AI* perception/usage (by あ) — Semble
All intelligence is collective intelligence (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev
Why and How to Run Local Models in Zed
Running local models is good now
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.
Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
AIエージェントがスクショ1万3000枚を公開リポジトリにアップロード
AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub
Becoming a stranger in my own field
John Horton on Twitter / X
Gautam Kamath on Twitter / X
Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 on Twitter / X
Andy Matuschak on Twitter / X
Big Tech’s War on Human Achievement | Compact
AI Research Evaluation: Negative Findings and Failure Modes | Arvind Narayanan posted on the topic | LinkedIn
📢 New paper: Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But most evaluations of agents conducting AI research focus on narrow, verifiable tasks. Can AI agents… | Sayash Kapoor
My claude is constantly wanting to 'A/B test' things instead of actually just doing the thing I told her to do, and constantly wants to fall…
A snapshot of research into answering if frontier AI agents can run R&D into AI (which not surprisingly failed apart from "minor findings…
This is definitely my feeling working with them on recommendation algorithm.
"This paper prompted Jack Clark, one of the co-founders of Anthropic to post this to their news letter: 'the singularity could be delayed'".
Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research
Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Large language models are not the problem
AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious
Agency and Agents
ГАЛЬВАНИЗАЦИЯ АВТОРА, ИЛИ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТ С НЕЙРОННОЙ ПОЭЗИЕЙ. Борис Орехов. «Новый мир» №6, 2018
Personal Online RL | 🌱 | Offprint
Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society
Surya Narreddi
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