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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Not accepting it means not normalizing it, refusing everywhere I can refuse, pushing for holding the companies producing this accountable with existing & new regulation, working to protect the environment & important social infrastruture. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One of the key messages I carry is that we don't have to accept any of this. Sometimes I see opposition in the form of "Get in loser, you'll be left behind" and other times it's in the form of "It's all over the place, what do you mean you think you can opt out?" >>

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Terrific convo between @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social on stochastic parrots and the gen A.I. doomsday hype machine open.spotify.com/episode/2eDj...

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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, because it is really important to smoke, try heroin, download CSAM (!!!), or burn plastic, etc etc to be able to discuss the dangers and harms of those activities.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OK, last point, because I have a job to do that is not Internet. There is one place where the analogy really breaks down. In the US, when the true cost of asbestos became clear, we didn't ask the manufacturers to save us. We didn't invite them to summits. We sued them into oblivion. fin. 22/22

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyone talking about new rules for being nice to the software, please read this ⬇️

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I appreciated this chance to go on Bloomberg Tech, though it's always a bit odd to have a conversation with a reporter who is really interested in what's effectively a fictional story. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

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Watch Bender: AI’s ‘Existential’ Risk Is ‘Fake’ - Bloomberg

University of Washington professor Emily Bender argues the AI safety debate is too focused on hypothetical existential threats while overlooking harms already happening today. She points to environmen...

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is getting a lot of quotes, so I feel I should correct this a bit (sorry @anildash.com!) “AI” was 100% born toxic! The first AI workshop was born from the field of “automata studies”, and…1/ (Pictured: the folks who convened for the first workshop. Notice anything notable here?)

A group of white men, sitting on the grass and smiling at the photographer. Black and white photo (1956).

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is pretty ahistorical actually. Just because what's going on now is ESPECIALLY toxic & corrupt doesn't mean "AI" as an ideology was ever okay. See: notaidoc.com See: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape... >>

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Ghost in the Machine

Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The AI "slow down" is related to burn rates of training new models and is an economic play for IPOs.

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading it back again now, this section strikes me as more urgently needed than ever: "I will not tolerate or pass, or participate in the passing of, BAD WORKMANSHIP or FAULTY MATERIAL in all that concerns my works as an ENGINEER, or in my dealings with my own conscience, before the WORLD."

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FYI, this is based on the Canadian Obligation of the Engineer. The origin story involves a bridge that collapsed due to shoddy engineering killing 75 workers. The first rings were made from the iron of the bridge, and the oath was written by Rudyard Kipling: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling...

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Calling of an Engineer - Wikipedia

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, *someone* has to put the Luna in lunatic. It's a tough job.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's why I'm professionally insulted when these techbros built and released LLMs with zero responsibility and sense of obligation to humanity. And that's why these particular Very Entitled Boys are morons, not engineers.

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I felt awe that the code I was developing would be used by people to build landing systems for aircraft, or for brake control systems for planes, or image recognition systems for MRIs. My coworkers and I took pride in sweating the details, because a car could crash if we cut corners in our code.

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The oath had a section affirming that I would remember at all times that I had an obligation to serve humanity, and that I would be devoted to the standards and dignity of my profession. I looked at the ring every day when I developed simulation software for signal processing systems.

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember. I had to take an oath to the Order of the Engineer when I graduated from Boston U. with my Master's, and got a plain steel ring to wear on my right hand, to remind me of the oath every day I worked as an engineer. It's why I continue to speak out against LLMs.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is extraordinarily well written.

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Hari @haritellastory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good god Josh, Anthropic has the same problem, as do most AI companies who are giddy about unleashing AI agents (aka chaos agents) out on the internet with zero guardrails. Get over your bizarre fascination with AI coding and images and read Karen Hao's Empire of AI or Bender & Hanna's The AI Con.

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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Conservative Man Returns From a Desert Island (Starring Me)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Side eyeing the "pro-human" anti-AI coalitions. When someone tells you who they are the first time, you should believe them.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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𝕄𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕣𝕪 | ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝔸𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕪 🌹 @mistermercury.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s been really unfortunate to watch people I otherwise respect for their well-researched opinions/writings just kind of lose their minds and refuse to acknowledge that, hey, maybe a lot of the “experts” involved in this are kind of insane silicon valley tech bros

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Soraya @zaums.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we do not respect dogs and their capacity to get through gaps in fences they will leave us behind

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Soraya @zaums.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My dog escaped containment and caused a car crash while he was chasing an old lady. We must all heed this warning against dogs and definitely not hold me culpable. What am I supposed to do, build a fence? Supervise him? He’s learning how to chase squirrels now. Soon he will be able to use a gun

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's also not magic beans. It's a word predictor. It's really fast at it and it's even learned to pick the next line in code to make the code do what you want it to, most of the time. (This tends to flatten all art and make it worse, but that's another thing.) But it isn't magic and it's not alive.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data.

The observation that the most alarmist claims about A.I.’s impact seem to come from the individuals most connected to Rationalism should anger us. This exaggerated grimness makes it easy to overlook the more immediate harms created by these technologies, such as their potential use in cybersecurity attacks, excess resource consumption, impact on our cognitive fitness, role in undermining education and amplification of soul-deadening slop.

This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant “stewards” of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When they call your name in a work meeting and you weren't listening.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“I write everything using AI now." No you don't. Your little computer girlfriend summarizes the internet's thoughts for you. You went to the word ATM and gave the receipt to the Wall Street Journal.

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Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI

“I write everything using AI now,” Druckenmiller, who questioned the treasury secretary’s bond market interventions, said.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There’s an aggressively paid for influence op going on right now to defend AI slop as art and protected speech across platforms. AI execs realize they have a problem and don’t wanna get Marie Antoinette’d. The free ChatGPT trip is the tip of the iceberg. First person to nail it down gets a Pulitzer.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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