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Artificial intelligences and human scientists exhibit...
We investigate the effectiveness of artificial intelligences (AI)-specifically large language models (LLMs)-relative to human scientists at high-level cognitive tasks in social science such as...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
On thinking machines
While Chiron Codex is about the application of LLMs and AI-augmented tools, we also need to understand their meaning to us, each other, and society. I have three topics: intelligence,...
Etzioni on AI: An Opinionated Glossary of AI
Everyone in tech says things like LLM, open weights, RAG and agent; far fewer could define precisely what they all mean. Oren Etzioni sorts out about 30 AI terms in plain English, with a blunt verdict on each and one novel phrase he believes isn't used enough.
"AI" and Productivity
[I keep bringing these up on Bluesky, so I think it’s time to gather them up and make a post out of them.] This is a collection of articles...
[Keynote 03] Simulating Emergent LLM Social Behaviors in Multi Agent Systems
AI and the crisis of the author
Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.
I think it’s telling that people very interested in AI (like Eugene and myself) still have no interest in using it as a proxy for human communication. “Being a good writer” is not the same thing as having social agency, and making the models even better at writing won’t change that.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
When you deploy heavily LLM text, you currently have no way to prove that you actually read it and therefore cannot convince me to read it
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Things related to the use of AI (llms mostly)
AI for mass deliberation and bridge-building
How AI (LLMs, bridging-based ranking, Polis) is used to involve many people in deliberation and synthesize common-ground statements: Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, Taiwan's vTaiwan/Polis, and the Habermas Machine.
📚 AI (+ nuance)
Researching all aspects of artificial intelligence and its realized and potential implications
AI
AI research, critical perspectives, agent design, digital humanities. How AI systems work, their embedded values, and the thinking around building agentic systems.
The Free Expression Evaluation
Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms · From Novel Chemicals to Opera
The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence
How large language models can reshape collective intelligence
Democracy as a Scaled Collective Intelligence Process: Points of Vulnerability and Augmentation
Bridging Voting and Deliberation with Algorithms: Field Insights from vTaiwan and Kultur Komitee
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
Property Testing with Agent Swarms
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
