Besides being next to useless for actually measuring intelligence, here's why we should kill IQ scores for good
An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on th…
An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on th…
Gene Smith on Twitter / X
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile pic.twitter.com/qE4s3bs7AY— Gene Smith (@GeneSmi96946389) May 22, 2026
Why it’s getting harder to measure AI performance
The most famous chart in AI might be obsolete soon.
The LA Times’ Political Rating “AI” Is A Silly Joke Aimed At Validating Wealthy Media Ownership’s Inherent Bias
Late last year we wrote about how LA Times billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong confidently announced that he was going to use AI to display “artificial intelligence-generated ratings”…
How ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Can Reframe the A.I. Debate
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
What the Studies Say About How AI Affects Your Brain: A (Very Big) Compilation
The entire literature clearly points to a single surprising finding
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’
We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.
Some notes on the Nobel Prize hallucination that wasn't
Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them?
The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
Who earned the score? - Sensemaker
This week's AI claims blurred models, systems, simulations and people. The evidence becomes clearer when the tested subject comes first.
Collective Intelligence Research
Explorations into the idea that a group of humans is "more intelligent" than the sum of their "IQ" (i.e. "groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent")
How large language models can reshape collective intelligence
Sharing Notes about Collective Intelligence — Pop Junctions
Socially Minded Intelligence: How Individuals, Groups, and Artificial Intelligence Can Make Each Other Smarter (or Not)
Profile: Adrien Treuille
NOVA | The Wisdom of the Crowds | Season 45 | Episode 6
Mapping Citizen Science through the Lens of Human-Centered AI
