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Manny Moss

@emoss.bsky.social

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Senior Research Scientist - Anthropology of AI and Computing

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Artificial intelligence didn’t used to be the obvious answer to every problem, notes @emoss.bsky.social. But AI approaches have moved into domains such as medicine, criminal justice, materials science, e-commerce, and more. Why is this so?

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Toward a Realpolitik for AI

Today’s AI arms race demands a healthy dose of realism.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New from me in @publicbooks.bsky.social ' Technology section: "Toward a Realpolitik of AI" reviews three excellent books by @bialski.bsky.social , @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social , and @garymarcus.bsky.social .

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Toward a Realpolitik for AI - Public Books

Today’s AI arms race demands a healthy dose of realism.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

What in the Francis Galton is this?!

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Economics

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Such a necessary, timely, well-made argument that pulls focus back to where it should be: actual harms. But also, putting Bayesian thinking in its appropriate place by pointing out how using Bayesian statistics is good when you can ground your expectations in actual reality and bad when you cannot.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I know fascists love columns, but I’d expect more than two of them to support this ridiculous claim.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The notion that you can pick and choose which fights to have with authoritarianism is an admission of defeat.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If it quacks like a goose and it steps like a goose...

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Finish the sentence, please! And so you will do what?

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

File injunctions in court. Use your seat on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to make withheld public health reports part of the congressional record. Demand the law be enforced. Complicity is consent. You’re a senator for the love of Pete.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

What’s keeping members of Congress from requesting info from these agencies and entering it into the congressional record? Seems like a good use of oversight powers…

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Even for the concern about security, it’s hard to imagine a way to train a completely secure model that doesn’t have significant overlaps in training data, given the promiscuity of current training approaches.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

To be clear, I agree with both the premise and the conclusion but not sure how the one leads to the other here.

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Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So if I understand this argument correctly, AI is inaccurate, insecure, and unaccountable. Therefore … the US military should build its own. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

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Opinion | Our Military Is Adopting A.I. Way Too Fast

The military is integrating A.I. into its deadly systems too quickly, and Trump will only accelerate a dangerous situation.

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