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Mainstream media coverage seems to be "a bit of this, a bit of that" in terms of both benefits and harms across categories. In the Environmental category, media coverage tends to lean toward harms, but this is offset by very strong endorsement of beneficial Economic impact.

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How might various "camps" answer? AI "doomers" would say the Existential impacts of AI will be Harmful or Very harmful. AI "boosters" would say the Economic impacts of AI will be Beneficial or Very beneficial. But in the other categories, people's beliefs seem to vary a great deal.

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To clarify the categories ... Economic = impact on the economy as a whole, especially for ordinary people Cultural = impact on education, art, music, journalism, literature, etc. Environmental = impact on the natural environment Existential = impact of envisaged artificial general intelligence

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𓅟 𓅟 @netwebinspace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One way to think about the impact of AI is to consider the following outcomes: * Economic * Cultural * Environmental * Existential >>Question<< With respect to each of these categories what do you believe the impact of AI will be? * Very beneficial * Beneficial * Neutral * Harmful * Very harmful

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Considering all the stupid bullshit that is constantly said about AI, listening to @doctorow.pluralistic.net talk about it is a breath of fresh air. youtube.com/shorts/G2D1l...

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Cory Doctorow AI...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

“Dr Dan Wolfson is a clinical psychologist who specializes in grief. He worries that deathbots could isolate people during a time when they need (human) support. ‘Having community around grief is really important…’”

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‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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AI Skeptic @ai-skeptic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An online conversation about AI agents. People can’t help anthropomorphizing 🤷‍♂️

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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The existential risk of AI

Old comic strip of a parrot with a gun aiming at an old man who cries, “It’s a parrot — pointing a gun at me! No! No!”

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AI Skeptic @ai-skeptic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yoor not allowed to comment unless yoov read the sequences

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AI Skeptic @ai-skeptic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“If you find yourself typing a prompt to express your idea, then just send me that prompt. I’m not interested in what an algorithm would do with your prompt, I want to know what you asked in the first place. I care about you, the human.”

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can the NYT's please stop confusing fiction with science? "I thought A.I. systems would grow more virtuous as they became smarter....even if one model in a group behaved badly" (Kevin Roose) Billions of mathematical calculations do not grow "smarter" "more virtuous" or "behave badly."

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Kimi Wei @kimiwei.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nobel Peace Prize laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social shares thoughts at the 80th celebration of the UN: "Information integrity is the mother of all battles. Win this, and we can win the rest. Lose this, and we lose everything." Ressa urges us to fight to elevate facts, journalism, democracy.

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Maria Ressa at UNGA 80th anniv: 'Information integrity is the mother of all battles'

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Large language models are seen by many as a demonstration of the power of scientific rationality. But ironically, their appeal may stem from decidedly irrational roots. And the extravagant claims about AI that are so common today may be mostly the product of magical thinking.

But this denial belies the excitement exhibited by true AI believers, and in candid moments they might admit that their first experience of AI indeed felt magical. The glamour and respectability of advanced technology acts as camouflage for a disreputable psychological dynamic.

Compare a chatbot with a magic trick and you’ll be told that it’s nothing of the sort. It’s advanced technology, not a trick, and there’s certainly nothing magical about it.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." – Arthur C. Clarke At first sight, it would seem that large language models are a good example of this. But I think it's just the opposite. LLM chatbots are not indistinguishable from magic—quite the contrary…