Applied Statistics - aka A.I.

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France Dear students, As you know, in …

5,742 likes, 68 comments - aljazeeraenglish on January 25, 2026: "⁠Much of modern warfare is shaped by for-profit, commercial AI tech firms. ⁠ .⁠ This gives them an unprecedented, non-state influence over geopolitical conflict.⁠ .⁠ Al Jazeera's @n_linh explains.".

13K likes, 103 comments - ajplus on March 2, 2026: "The U.S. reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, to help carry out its strikes on Iran. The U.S. attacked Iran just hours after Trump severed ties with Anthropic because the company objected to using Claude for mass domestic surveillance or to develop fully autonomous weapons. ⁣ ⁣ ...⁣ Producer: Dikembe Wilkins ⁣ ⁣ #Iran #US #AI #Claude #Anthropic #ChatGPT #OpenAI".

Nature - Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build.

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete in a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to produce technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming, according to people familiar with the matter.

What's behind the feverish AI discourse? Who thinks "AI is fake"? Is "the left" wrong to dismiss AI? Is that even what's happening? What's really going on with AI in 2026.

Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

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In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees

Website operators are being asked to feed LLM crawlers poisoned data by a project called Poison Fountain. The project page links to URLs which pro…

What happens when scale isn't treated as the ultimate marker of progress?

Leer en español. In October 2024, I came across a video in which Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, spoke bluntly about the environmental costs of artificial intelligence (AI). Schmidt, one of...

Feeding the Data Deity Photo by  Sonika Agarwal  on  Unsplash Recent conversations with colleagues brought me, again, to the topic of synthe...

Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work

Researchers tested AI on remote freelance projects across fields like game development, data analysis, and video animation. It didn't go well.

Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

In Brazil, a foundation finances the development of an AI algorithm to optimise food distribution. Also in Brazil, a collective of Black women has been developing for three years a solidarity exchange system that not …

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

As more workers use AI, a recent study adds to growing evidence the tech doesn’t always deliver on promises of boosted productivity.

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

If AI has taught me anything, it’s the danger of drifting into mental autopilot.

The uncomfortable reason the internet fell for a fake delivery app whistleblower.

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Embracing new technologies that don’t advance teaching and learning is a mistake. Educators must ask questions — and resist when necessary.

How large language models rot your brain and generate personal delusions.

L’ha creata l’attivista Antoinette Torres Soler, ma è davvero etica?

Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.