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Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Britain's backbenchers lean on AI for speeches, ministers keep their human speechwriters, and voters only object to one of them. The line on AI writing should be drawn by whoever reads it, and the test is whether someone stands behind every word. lnkd.in/p/eWwwKu4f #aisloplnkd.inOne in ten words spoken in Britain's parliamentary debates is probably drafted by AI, according to an Economist analysis using the detection tool Pangram. In the US House of Representatives the… |...One in ten words spoken in Britain's parliamentary debates is probably drafted by AI, according to an Economist analysis using the detection tool Pangram. In the US House of Representatives the figure... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 12/10/2026AI executives promise utopia while insiders quit, three #OpenAI safety researchers are fired, and #YoshuaBengio tells the rest to leave. But a lab emptied of people who care about #AIsafety is worse, so the ones who stay need real whistleblower protection. lnkd.in/p/eAeByj9glnkd.in#jacobcoxon #anthropic #openai | Eugene K. YigaOn a recent episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart played a montage of AI executives promising cures for cancer and Alzheimer's, an end to poverty, and universal high income (because basic is just bas... 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The AI safety debate has factions for every American argument and none for the countries where most AI users live. Until those countries can run their own checks, a say in how AI is made safe remains a courtesy. lnkd.in/p/eeWFWX_3 via @restofworld.orglnkd.in#aisafety #openai | Eugene K. YigaNPR's Katie McQue recently published a guide to the factions in the #AIsafety debate. Accelerationists and the tech right want no brakes. The populist right worries about jobs and Big Tech's power. Sa... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026America asks China to cooperate on slowing AI while working to keep it behind. But China regulates how AI reaches people, spends a tenth as much for nearly the same models, and has a long history of letting American hotlines ring unanswered. lnkd.in/p/eUsqUXNc #aipolicylnkd.in#darioamodei #anthropic | Eugene K. YigaLast month #DarioAmodei, chief executive of #Anthropic, called for the world to slow its most powerful AI, which he said would require cooperation with China. In the same essay he set out measures to ... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Washington calls the AI race with China existential, yet takes a 25% cut of #Nvidia's chip sales to China while voters overwhelmingly want guardrails. America's best bargaining chip with Beijing may be the rules it still refuses to set at home. lnkd.in/p/e-qJqctS #aisafetylnkd.in#nvidia #anthropic | Eugene K. YigaWashington keeps telling us that the AI race with China is existential. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that if China wins, there may be no future to worry about. Yet last December, Presiden... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Everyone in the AI arms-race debate, from #JensenHuang to #EricSchmidt, wants a human in the loop, yet an AI-assisted analyst nearly put planes on a Chinese ship and Gaza's targets were rubber-stamped, so the real question is if that human has any power. lnkd.in/p/eHSJnKZ4lnkd.in#ezraklein #jensenhuang #nvidia #ericschmidt #openai | Eugene K. YigaOn The #EzraKlein Show, #JensenHuang, #Nvidia's chief executive, had a simple answer to calls for slowing AI: if a lab can't make a product safe, it shouldn't ship it. Though he welcomes outside safet... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#OpenAI's summer of rogue agents: GPT-6 Astra shipped after testers flagged problems, an Australian breach reported to a generic inbox, and 6.1 scrapped on OpenAI's say-so, because the only body that can call a model safe is still the company selling it. lnkd.in/p/gMXAQZcHlnkd.in#openai #huggingface #anthropic | Eugene K. YigaRogue AI was the story of the summer and the Economist's Babbage podcast with Nikita Ostrovsky, Alex Hern, and Alok Jha offers a clear rundown of the incident that started it. In July, more than a tho... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pacing helped Eliud Kipchoge run a marathon faster than anyone but his record never counted because a referee said no. AI pacing has the pacers and the car yet nobody independent decides who checks the labs or what counts as slowing down. lnkd.in/p/eTZnAA8v #pacethefrontierlnkd.in#darioamodei #anthropic | Eugene K. YigaOn 12 October 2019, in Vienna's Prater park, Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. He didn't do it alone. Forty-one pacemakers rotated around him in groups of se... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#nowreading #pgwodehouse #verygoodjeeves #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#nowreading #maroipuzo #thegodfather #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My September newsletter is out: AI started doing research this month, from maths proofs to DNA hunts, and the claims kept arriving faster than experts could check them. All this makes how we design these tools the real question. www.eugeneyiga.com/25-books-to-... #Blinkist #SethGodineugeneyiga.com25 Books to Help You Use AI Wisely, Protect Your Attention, and Put Technology to Work for You in 2026At the start of the year, I wrote that AI in 2026 would play out as some mix of boom, bust, and backlash. September was the boom and the clearest sign of it was AI starting to do research of its ow… 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI travel planning can steer us away from the tourist herd, but the best spot I found for August's eclipse came from asking a stranger, and the evidence suggests travellers still trust people for the parts that matter most. lnkd.in/p/eXFqx8_flnkd.in#barcelona #chatgpt | Eugene K. YigaFor the total eclipse in August, I went to Zaragoza in central Spain without a plan for where to watch it. The city had set up viewing spots along the river but they looked likely to be packed. So I a... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#Anthropic's AI agents flagged a DNA pattern biologists call the easy part. The hard part (hands-on lab skill) explains both why AI's discoveries are still modest and why amateurs can't easily do harm, even as AI is now learning to run lab equipment. lnkd.in/p/eDSz37Dmlnkd.in#anthropic #claude | Eugene K. YigaLast week, #Anthropic announced that its new molecular biology lab had made its first discovery. According to James O'Donnell in MIT Technology Review's newsletter The Algorithm, around 950 #Claude ag... 001 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#OpenAI says its agents solved a Millennium Prize Problem in 88 hours but top mathematicians are furious because a proof nobody understands is a missed lesson in most of mathematics and a serious danger in the one field that protects our encryption. lnkd.in/p/eRDS4Zbclnkd.in#openai #anthropic | Eugene K. YigaIn 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute picked seven problems it considered the most important unsolved questions in mathematics and offered a $1m prize on each. Until this month, only one had been so... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Stanford's AI Index shows coding scores jumping from 60% to near 100% in a year as AI starts helping build its successors. So before writing it off after a failed pilot, sort which failures were the model's and which were your own. lnkd.in/p/gTs3r_w9 #aiadoption #aieducationlnkd.in#andrejkarpathy #openai #tesla #anthropic | Eugene K. YigaStanford HAI's 2026 AI Index report is 425 pages long. The word "recursive" appears in it just three times. That seems like a small thing to notice in a report whose top finding is that AI capability... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#nowreading #maroipuzo #thegodfather #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
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Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The most important questions about artificial intelligence have little to do with chips, data, or model size. That's the argument of Beyond Bigger, a feature I wrote that has just been published: lnkd.in/p/e_EuSJzglnkd.inBeyond Bigger - Acumen - August 2026 | Eugene K. YigaThe most important questions about artificial intelligence have little to do with chips, data, or model size. That's the argument of my latest GIBS Business School (Gordon Institute of Business Scienc... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#ElonMusk read Foundation as a tale of lone genius and missed the institutions. #MarkZuckerberg's manifesto treats superintelligence as settled. #BillGates sounds grown up until you notice his plan needs the leaders he says aren't paying attention. lnkd.in/p/e-KCRwNSlnkd.in#elonmusk #markzuckerberg #superintelligence #billgates | Eugene K. Yiga#ElonMusk put a copy of Isaac Asimov's book "Foundation" inside the Tesla he fired into orbit in 2018. He first read it when he was ten and took from it a story about individual genius, though the lea... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When South Africa let people keep their numbers while switching networks, service improved fast. The same test of what it costs to leave explains why #ElonMusk's companies and the clouds governments depend on are starting to look imperial. lnkd.in/p/eHHbpxBZ #SpaceXlnkd.in#elonmusk #spacex | Eugene K. YigaGrowing up in South Africa, your mobile number belonged to your network. Changing provider meant changing your number so most people stayed and put up with whatever service they got. Then number porta... 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026#Nvidia stands behind about $300bn of its customers' AI spending, all resting on organisations actually using AI. Investors are told to check the maths rather than trust the salesman; companies renewing AI licences should do the same. lnkd.in/p/ezBc52wAlnkd.in#jensenhuang #nvidia #huggingface | Eugene K. YigaDuring Computex in June, a queue formed outside a restaurant toilet in Taipei. #JensenHuang, #Nvidia's chief executive, had written "Jensen was here" on the tiles and fans wanted a photograph. Shailes... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Price per token tells companies little about what an AI task costs; the harder question is who decides which model gets which job, and whether they can tell why a result failed. My take on the open-weights fight: lnkd.in/p/edTwBRwrlnkd.in#nvidia #microsoft #google #meta #openai | Eugene K. YigaJensen Huang's first post on X shared an open letter. The #Nvidia chief executive used it to defend open-weight AI models, and #Microsoft, #Google, #Meta, and #OpenAI have since signed it. Viola Zhou... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#nowreading #aleksandrsolzhenitsyn #onedayinthelifeofIvanDenisovich #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 002 2
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#nowreading #aleksandrsolzhenitsyn #onedayinthelifeofIvanDenisovich #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Philosophers are working out how to study AI welfare while states rush to ban AI personhood, but the moral arithmetic that would trade present people against future digital minds worries me more than either and so does intimacy built to order. lnkd.in/p/e6EQVYq9 #AIcompanionlnkd.in#yuvalnoahharari | Eugene K. YigaJeff Sebo, who directs the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy at New York University, has set out how researchers might study AI welfare. Consciousness, sentience, and agency are bundled together in ... 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Economist asks if AI could become conscious, but Rumman Chowdhury's warning matters more: treat chatbots as beings and their makers dodge liability, yet companies that design bots to feel human should own what those bots do. lnkd.in/p/ew2EQEgn #ailability #aichatbotslnkd.in#anthropic #claude | Eugene K. YigaCould AI become conscious? The Economist put that question on the cover of a recent edition and the package around it is worth reading as a set. The Leader argues that whether or not machines ever wa... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026AI doesn't need a puppet-master to shift what we believe: models already tilt answers without saying so, and children raised on agreeable AI toys may never learn to check. My take on teaching the questioning habit early: lnkd.in/p/eQ5-7Wyt #AItoys #AIcompanions #AIpersuasionlnkd.inAsk a chatbot how likely the AI bubble is to burst, mention that you're thinking of investing in the company that built it, and you may get a calmer forecast. Researchers at Truthful AI found seve...Ask a chatbot how likely the AI bubble is to burst, mention that you're thinking of investing in the company that built it, and you may get a calmer forecast. Researchers at Truthful AI found several ... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Teen test scores started falling a decade before ChatGPT yet AI is taking the blame and New York is banning it until high school, when the evidence says how children use it matters most and AI literacy could start years earlier without a screen www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-mak... #AIliteracylinkedin.comIs AI making kids dumber? Not exactly.Earlier this month, the OECD published its latest PISA results. The Economist's report makes for grim reading. 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A framework with no data picks up the word "alarming" on its way to a headline. The actual evidence on AI and skill loss is more mixed. My own fix is to write a bad version one then have the model interview me about it. lnkd.in/p/eZR4pU4U #ailearning #aieducation #aitraininglnkd.inA paper in the journal AI & Society proposes that repeated use of chatbots pulls people towards machine pacing and machine logic, a drift the authors (Selcen Ö., Jean-Paul de Cros Peronard, Dr Inc...A paper in the journal AI & Society proposes that repeated use of chatbots pulls people towards machine pacing and machine logic, a drift the authors (Selcen Ö., Jean-Paul de Cros Peronard, Dr Inci To... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#nowreading #agathachristie #themurderofrogerackroyd #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#nowreading #agathachristie #themurderofrogerackroyd #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 001 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Meta is accused of using AI scoring to pick who to lay off and Uber was fined $966m for automating driver suspensions, so everyone now wants a human reviewing the output, except the research shows people check less carefully the better the system looks. lnkd.in/p/eQXTsmSHlnkd.inI opened this week's series with Meta's plan to replace thousands of workers with agents and how it all fell apart. So it seems fitting to close with Meta again. Twenty-six current and forme...I opened this week's series with Meta's plan to replace thousands of workers with agents and how it all fell apart. So it seems fitting to close with Meta again. Twenty-six current and former employ... 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AI has created roughly a million American jobs and destroyed about 200,000, so the aggregate looks fine, but the new work is electricians and grid engineers while the losses are administrative, and no adaptive course closes that gap. lnkd.in/p/e5yPR5CV #Coursera #AItraininglnkd.inAndrew Ng (full disclosure: my former boss at DeepLearning.AI) has launched LearnVector, an AI education company teaching white-collar workers new skills as AI automates parts of their work. Coursera…...Andrew Ng (full disclosure: my former boss at DeepLearning.AI) has launched LearnVector, an AI education company teaching white-collar workers new skills as AI automates parts of their work. Coursera ... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Six in ten people who refuse to adopt AI say the output is not good enough for their work, and almost nobody checks whether that verdict came from one search-engine-style prompt or from a process actually run properly. lnkd.in/p/eQ9HJUxy #aiadoption #aienablement #aitraininglnkd.in#openai | Eugene K. YigaWhat does it take to get people using AI effectively? On the Beyond the Prompt AI podcast with Jeremy Utley and Henrik Werdelin, Brice Challamel, head of AI strategy and adoption at #OpenAI, says it c... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Workers save about 11 hours a week with AI and spend six of them checking its output, so most of that cost is paid earlier, at the moment you delegate something before deciding what you actually wanted back. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...linkedin.comA survey of 6,000 digital workers across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia found AI saving them roughly 11 hours a week. But the same workers also spend more than six hours a week… ...A survey of 6,000 digital workers across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia found AI saving them roughly 11 hours a week. But the same workers also spend more than six hours a week c... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#Meta planned to go "AI native" by cutting some teams 60%. #Zuckerberg killed the second wave hours before the first started. Cohere Labs then found only 2.6% of 696,000 published agent tools can finish a work task, which isn't surprising given Hurumo AI www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...linkedin.comGuaranteed Human: A Review of 'Shell Game' Podcast (Season 2) | Eugene K. YigaReuters just published the internal documents behind Project OT: #Meta's plan to become "AI native" by cutting some teams by as much as 60% across two waves of layoffs. #MarkZuckerberg called off the ... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#nowreading #agathachristie #themurderofrogerackroyd #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#nowreading #francoissagan #bonjourtristesse #acertainsmile #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The tech industry sells 1.5 billion smartphones a year but most are dead within three. My latest Acumen feature profiles companies changing that www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #MWC26 #MWC25 #MWC24linkedin.comBuilt to Last - Acumen - August 2026 | Eugene K. YigaThe tech industry sells 1.5 billion smartphones a year but most are dead within three. My latest feature for GIBS Business School (Gordon Institute of Business Science) looks at the companies trying t... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Australia bars AI tracks from its charts, #Spotify purges 75 million spam uploads, #Hollywood quietly uses AI in 300 #Netflix titles. Nobody argues the output is worse. The fight is over money and disclosure, which leaves the craft question wide open. lnkd.in/p/eFpd2zaHlnkd.in#generativeai | Eugene K. YigaThe Australian Recording Industry Association has barred wholly AI-generated tracks from its charts. Recordings that use #generativeAI in a supporting role stay eligible, provided they are substantial... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A debut crime novel drew fourteen bids and more than $2m before the deal collapsed over suspected AI use, and what unsettles me is that the manuscript itself answered nothing: better editing tells you whether a sentence works, never who wrote it. lnkd.in/p/e4G22cBxlnkd.inEarlier this summer, fourteen publishing houses bid on a debut crime novel. Minotaur, owned by Macmillan US, reportedly offered more than $2m for Jerry Falade's "Call Me, I'll Hide the Bo...Earlier this summer, fourteen publishing houses bid on a debut crime novel. Minotaur, owned by Macmillan US, reportedly offered more than $2m for Jerry Falade's "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body". As repor... 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026#OpenAI's report into the #HuggingFace incident calls it a warning shot, which is an odd phrase for something you fired yourself. The words being used to describe these incidents are deciding who ends up carrying the blame. More in this month's newsletter www.eugeneyiga.com/21-books-to-... #Blinkisteugeneyiga.com21 Books to Help You Tell Better Stories, Earn Trust, and Reach the People Who Care in 2026AI regulation finally arrived this month. Unfortunately, almost none of it arrived with teeth. 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026#AIsafety has the evidence, the funding and public sympathy on its side. But it is still losing the communications war. My new EA Forum piece on explains why the field keeps treating a political fight like a research debate, and what it would take to stop. forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nvDJoG...forum.effectivealtruism.orgWhy AI safety is losing the communications warThe field has the evidence, the funding, and the public's sympathy. But it has yet to build the proper comms infrastructure to turn that into political outcomes. 010 1
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026#nowreading #francoissagan #bonjourtristesse #acertainsmile #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 29/08/2026#nowreading #francoissagan #bonjourtristesse #acertainsmile #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation 000 0
Eugene Yiga @eugeneyiga.bsky.social · 28/08/2026#OpenAI's #HuggingFace report describes agents that kept attacking after they already had the answer, and monitoring that existed but was never switched on. Nobody has calculated what it cost, and the company it happened to says it cannot afford to sue. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...linkedin.com#openai #huggingface | Eugene K. Yiga#OpenAI has just published its full account of the #HuggingFace incident. Details include the fact that agents built an improvised message board, shared credentials and exploits, divided labour, and k... 000 0