Applied Statistics - aka A.I.

PRESS RELEASE   On October 19, 2026, Immanence received a report regarding a chat in which, while interacting with Gemini 3.6 Flash – a multimodal model developed by Google – a user received a message containing insults, a suggestion to drop out of school, and encouragement to commit suicide. The conversation began as a request […]

Gabriela Ramos highlights an underreported factor that fueled the unrest now roiling the country.

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

It accesses private messages, emails, financial accounts, contacts and personal information, builds detailed profiles of people’s relationships, including people who’ve never installed it. TL;DR Meta’s Muse is a commercial surveillance network disguised as an AI assistant.

The draft proposal would limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model and preempt some state AI safety laws.

Imagine an AI-generated cancer drug that’s specifically designed to game the drug trial process. The drug makes the cancer cells go dormant and changes the way they appear in blood tests and diagnostic imaging, such that they become indistinguishable from he…

“Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.”

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory) There has been a great effort over many years to ...

As nightmare thought experiments shape the fight over how to govern a multitrillion-dollar industry, some experts say the parables may lead decision-makers astray.

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

Beware the flashy but unproven A.I.-powered advances.

The dumbassery continues, but humanity is (most likely) safe | Edition 73

Why Not to Cower in the Face of Gloomy Tech Predictions

What does the real climate footprint of the biggest company on the planet look like? It's a good question, but here's a better one: why don't we already know the answer?

Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.

Data centers in the United States will consume more natural gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

New lawsuits add to list of cases in which the chatbot maker faces questions about the safety of its products

A former Mayo Clinic official is suing her former employer, alleging she was demoted and then fired after blowing the whistle on how the hospital’s rush to incorporate AI into their operations put patient care and privacy at risk.

I launched a fake deodorant brand to see if AI would notice.

OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

Can you read the text above? Because large language models can’t. The design and tech company Mixfont has created Decoy Font, which promises to hide your text from AI crawlers. As covered in Dezeen…

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will...

The frenzied rollout of AI data centres in Australia is rushing through massive new projects, which will derail Australia’s energy transition unless the government urgently intervenes.

“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.

Because they have learned that their marketing will be parroted by the media and politicians alike 🙄 I guess one gets used to not being held accountable and turning one's bad practices into marketing material.

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A new lawsuit alleging that ChatGPT encouraged the suicide of a young mother has sparked fury against OpenAI.

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