Your AI slop sucks

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜

I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

The AI Industry Is Lying To You

Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5000 to 18,000 words, including

the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

Ronny Chieng Address @ Harvard Class Day 2026 (Transcript)

Read the full transcript of Emmy Award-winning actor Ronny Chieng’s remarks to the Harvard Class of 2026 during the Harvard College Class Day on Wednesday, May 27th, 2026. INTRODUCTION RONNY CHIENG: Thank you. Keep it

Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard and open-source project from Anthropic that makes it quick and easy for developers to add real-world functionality — like sending emails or...

AI agents are not agentic

AI agents still cannot perform tasks in pursuit of goals.

Meet the Pirates of the RAG: Adaptively Attacking LLMs to Leak Knowledge Bases

Meet the Pirates of the RAG: Adaptively Attacking LLMs to Leak Knowledge Bases

Big Tech Launches Campaign to Defend AI Use

Chamber of Progress, in a campaign called "Generate and Create," says it will showcase "how AI lowers barriers for producing art."

The envoy framework: an open architecture for agents: ACM Transactions on Information Systems: Vol 10, No 3

The Envoy Framework addresses a need for computer-based assistants or agents that operate in conjunction with users' existing applications, helping them perform tedious, repetitive, or time-consuming tasks more easily and efficiently. Envoys carry out ...

AI Agents: Key Concepts and How They Overcome LLM Limitations

An AI agent is an autonomous software entity that is often used to augment a large language model. Here's what developers need to know.

The argument against AI agents and unnecessary automation

Opinion: OpenAI's Operator a solution in search of a problem

AI security issues dominate corporate worries, spending

Two reports illustrate how business leaders are thinking about and budgeting for generative AI.

One of ChatGPT's popular uses just got skewered by Stanford researchers

When the stakes are high, a robot therapist falls way short, researchers found.

‘AI fatigue’ is settling in as companies’ proofs of concept increasingly fail. Here’s how to prevent it  | Fortune

Along with the excitement about the possibilities of generative AI is a great deal of pressure for leaders and employees participating in projects.

Signal's Meredith Whittaker sees AI as another big data grab

The "surveillance business model" is using AI to expand its reach, the privacy expert says.