







Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.


State of AI Report 2025
The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

Valerio Capraro on Twitter / X
Nature has just published a pretty incredible paper.The authors introduce a framework that turns research papers into interactive AI agents.Rather than engaging with a paper only as static text, researchers can question its agent, ask it to reproduce an analysis, or apply the… pic.twitter.com/82wOQjak7a— Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) September 16, 2026
Library: Faculty Guide to Generative AI: Welcome
Library: Faculty Guide to Generative AI: Welcome

AI Ethics Class

Wikipedia:Artificial intelligence resources
This is a directory related to artificial intelligence (AI) in various administrative namespaces including; protocols, essays, collaboration groups, maintenance resources, discussions and news.
Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another good summary piece that includes many examples (in general Ed Zitron’s work is a great resource): ...
Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.

AI for Research | Scite
Scite searches 280M+ scholarly articles to give you citation-backed answers and show you how every claim is supported or disputed.
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI [Digital Download] — Welch Labs
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI offers unique perspectives on artificial intelligence through hands-on exploration and richly detailed graphics that give readers a visceral understanding of how AI actually works. From the fundamental perceptron to cutting-edge AI video generation, each chapte

Study Guide: Empire of AI by Karen Hao (SuperSummary)
Analyzing literature can be hard — we make it easy! Thi…

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'".

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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