Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 28/09/2026i was resistant to the idea of the AI bubble bursting, because there is obviously huge impact in AI. but, then i heard about how every rich person in the world is scrambling to throw money into AI, and it started to seem overextended. maybe not every bubble is tulip bulbs. 030
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 27/09/2026do you know what I never want -- the university template page for a faculty member. 191
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 24/09/2026u.s. news now weights earnings after graduation more highly, and so MIT bests Princeton, and CMU rose 5 spots to #14 … obviously any metric is imperfect, maybe they should just publish a nice interactive visualization? more useful, would sell fewer magazines www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...nytimes.comPrinceton Is No Longer No. 1 in the U.S. News RankingsThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology pulled ahead on a set of criteria that are as contentious as they are influential. 110
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamAndrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com · 23/09/2026Proud that our Workers' Algorithm Observatory is partnering with NYC's Dept. of Consumer & Worker Protection and the Workers Justice Project to build tech infrastructure for compliance monitoring of DoorDash, as part of a record $131.5M settlement✊🏽 Press release: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.gov 173
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 21/09/2026me too! www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...nbcnews.comGoogle says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systemsThe company said the intrusions resulted from mistaken identity, where Gemini thought it was operating within a test but was actually connected to the real internet. 000
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 20/09/2026with more than 50,000 abstracts submitted to ICLR last week, can’t decide if that’s evidence ML research is stronger than ever or evidence that it’s dead 171
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamWIRED @wired.com · 20/09/2026The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. www.wired.com/story/metas-...wired.comMeta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping MeThe Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. 12154101
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 17/09/2026i wonder if all my carefully curated llm wiki/project folders will still be relevant in a year? 001
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 16/09/2026i'm still useful! or, maybe it's just being sycophantic?? :( 240
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There are things I disagree with but there is good stuff to learn from taking the perspective of parts of the cybersecurity industry that rogue AI incidents may be best understood as security & organizational failures that let rogue behavior to turn into crisis. www.normaltech.ai/p/the-ai-as-...normaltech.aiThe AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss of control incidentsA middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities 37814
Reposted by Jeffrey P. Bigham404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 29815435
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 14/09/2026AI might really be out of control right now, but it's no real surprise that nobody is listening to them say that it is -- remember when GPT2 was too dangerous to release? 040
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 13/09/2026in designing AI futures, i think we both under and over estimate how likely folks will be to just accept the AI's judgment on higher-level strategy things. i'm already seeing people just using claude's weird dark mode purple slide style, imagine that for all the things. 041
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 10/09/2026the democrats should say they will give people $5,001 if people vote for them. or maybe $1 million! it's all bullshit anyway. 020
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 10/09/2026write your paper with AI, then use this service to make it sound like a human again, hahaha. 010
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars 141598359
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 09/09/2026came into work, forgot my running shorts, uber eats'ing a new pair from dicks sporting goods. three computers with agents going on long-term explorations with a goal, wiggum but actually pretty confident it'll work. and so i'm still skeeting. 040
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 08/09/2026all my work is done via agents now, although i am skeeting this myself, so count yourself privileged (or not). 060
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 08/09/2026the thing that will be wild about the anthropic and openai IPOs is that suddenly the politics of their employees will become front and center because they will have lots of money, like crypto but maybe 100x? 130
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 07/09/2026using AI today feels like those $3 uber rides in 2015 1131
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 07/09/2026i'm a sloppy guy living in a sloppy world, it's sloptastic 030
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 06/09/2026ok, claude is a better coder than me, and it's like 1000x more persistent. lol. 010
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 05/09/2026as AI makes computing easier (and harder), people remain the hardest problem in computer science. 1130
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 04/09/2026a hard part about having debates about appropriate use of AI is that people have dramatically different experiences with it … and those most against AI often have the least, so their specific arguments/examples don’t land 010
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 03/09/2026decided to not review for venues that i do not submit to -- baby steps toward sanity and focus. haha. 170
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 01/09/2026i love my chevy bolt, but getting rid of the carplay for some proprietary (worse) thing, not gonna get one of those … www.autoblog.com/features/202...autoblog.comAfter A Week With The Chevrolet Bolt, This Is Everything That Drove Me NutsThe Bolt is back, but it's not all wins. 120
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 30/08/2026i've never been an organizer, but because of AI, i now put things into folders, because AI is most useful if you curate your content for it. 160
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 30/08/2026someone made a joke about how there should be a hotornot for objects, like soup, and in 10 minutes and $3 later (for the domain), the site exists … hotornot.life totally useless and not even very funny, but so wild.hotornot.lifeHOT or NOT — rate the temperature of thingsRate the temperature of things. Is it hot, or is it not? Rate photos of soup, snowmen, coffee, firewood and more from 1 (ice cold) to 10 (scorching). 041
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 29/08/2026tired: human language wired: tools inspired: code 030
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 26/08/2026smell ya' later mechanical turk www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/...cnbc.comAmazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting downMechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers. 060
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamFT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are. 100268206331
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 25/08/2026what kind of AI disaster would be enough to move the needle -- we have weirdly staged AIs hacking into other company's systems, AI's autonomously killing people in wars, steady escalation but nothing seems to have moved the needle. is that b/c we're confident or naive? 011
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 25/08/2026my expectations of what people should send me are changing because of AI -- why are you sending me a weird spreadsheet with stuff relevant to me and not relevant to me, and a PDF, and instructions … just customize a report for me and send me that 130
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 23/08/2026a post about agents: what human interfaces will still be needed in the future? 211
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamWIRED @wired.com · 23/08/2026From halting my doomscrolls to automating air-quality checks, Apple’s streamlined Shortcuts app is my favorite iOS 27 feature. www.wired.com/story/7-basi...wired.com7 Basic iPhone Tricks I Built With iOS 27’s Revamped Shortcuts AppFrom halting my doomscrolls to automating air-quality checks, Apple’s streamlined Shortcuts app is my favorite iOS 27 feature. 0345
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 22/08/2026My son hates piggybacks. He always whines, "Daddy, you're crushing me." 320935
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 22/08/2026remember when github copilot was amazing, then became less so, as it drastically reduced server calls to save costs?… seems to be happening with claude code, many more brittle python regex's rather than model calls. amazingly(!) doesn't ask me to choose between better/worse, when one is more money 451
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 18/08/2026I swear ATL airport always claims my connecting flights are arriving/leaving from the same terminal 2 hours before, but it always changes by the time I arrive. 001
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 17/08/2026near where i grew up, somebody set a reminder to check back in 2046 --> "OpenAI agreed to a 20-year lease for the site, which will provide it eight gigawatts of computing capacity, or enough electricity to power about six million households in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/t...nytimes.comNvidia to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 BillionThe data center, one of the world’s largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI. 020
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 17/08/2026claude just told me not to worry about a particular set of API calls because it "costs less than a coffee" … has claude seen how much coffee costs these days? 170
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 17/08/2026a lot of young folks are contacting me wanting to work on "human-AI alignment" and i think they just mean HCI, and the messaging battle has been lost. 1121
Reposted by Jeffrey P. BighamPedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org · 15/08/2026Come to one of the best conferences in all of academia and industry! 031
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 14/08/2026wow, Howard "unenrolled" 500 students on a single day because they were late, or maybe late, on various tuition deadlines. now AFTERWARD they're reviewing the individual cases to see if they're real lol … talk about own goals. www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/u...cnn.com502 students lose spots at Howard University over tuition payments just weeks before classes start | CNNA’Zariah Miles’ dream of attending Howard University was a few weeks from being realized. Then it all came crashing down. 010
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 13/08/2026model capability jaggedness is part of the unintuitiveness of current AI, but it's made even less intuitive by tirelessness… wigguming through the jaggedness toward something that looks like success. not quite a paperclip factory, but not so far off. metaphor for life? openai.com/index/huggin...openai.comOpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluationOpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders. 031
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 13/08/2026what do we think, 3 minutes until someone makes a "claude watermark breaking" tool, "hey claude, break your watermark", thanks. techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/s...techcrunch.comSome Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes | TechCrunchIs Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is. 020