







AI skeptics often argue that current AI systems shouldn’t be so human-like. The idea — most recently expressed in this opinion piece by Nathan Beacom — is that…
Lincoln Michel on Twitter / X
This was my read on AI from the beginning and it proved very true. Whatever hypothetical benefits LLMs have (and they have some), their main use is to waste everyone's time wading through slop. Longer colleague powerpoints. More spam emails. More slop clogging up all the systems. https://t.co/2gtGfqf7KF— Lincoln Michel (@TheLincoln) September 21, 2026
Artificial
An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.

Artificial
An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.

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...

The AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work
Good scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.


[Keynote 03] Simulating Emergent LLM Social Behaviors in Multi Agent Systems

ADD / XOR / ROL: A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people imbuing almost magic...
If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms
I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and prog…

Pluralistic: Why I don’t like AI art (25 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
A law professor friend tells me that LLMs have completely transformed the way she relates to grad students and post-docs – for the worse. And no, it's not that they're cheating on their homework or using LLMs to write briefs full of hallucinated cases.
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI "hyperscalers" consists primarily of everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, a lot of things snap into focus:
Sam Altman says people are starting to talk like AI, making some human interactions 'feel very fake' | Fortune
“Real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak,” the OpenAI CEO said.

Ethan Landes, Kathryn B. Francis & Jim A. C. Everett, People defer to AI moral advice, but not blindly - PhilArchive
As AI large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in everyday technologies, should we be concerned about their capacity to influence human beliefs - particularly in the moral domain? Being persuaded ...
