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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 9h
I love my cat but she scary
A brown fluffy green eyed cat sizing up your life and finding it wantingA brown fluffy green eyed cat looking at you in a way that if she were any larger you’d know that you were already dead
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15h
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10h
Not a single perspective here from someone who didn’t write the report. This isn’t journalism, it’s an author’s abstract. Every para is just “this is what the paper says.” It’s exactly what you would get if you asked an undergrad to read it and write a summary. Or get one from a chatbot.
theguardian.com
AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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❌👑 Bernadette🫘🟧💙🐈‍⬛ @vintageknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Carol #caturday
A brown furry green eyed cat posing under a sheet
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
who’s gonna explain to him that making sure others have food, water, medicine, shelter and safety is the core of every ‘moral story of how we live together’
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026
Feedback from healthcare providers in response to the AI pilot program has been scathing, with one calling it “a disgrace to the human race” and reporting that they saw patients crying in pain as they waited for care.
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Me, setting the blender to MAX with the lid off: "technology is truly advancing beyond our control"
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026
Amazingly, no one was responsible
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Your friendly neighborhood Eli @elithek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you weren't there, I'm not sure I can explain how much John's post undersells A) just how hyped they wanted us to be about this amazing wonderproduct (for a long time called simply "It!") before telling us anything about it & B) the deafening silence of the collective reaction when we found out.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New Meta horror just dropped
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.
john calvin thinks you're the elect of the machine god probably
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Cold water and worms, bro a catfish
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Simon Scott @simonscott1975.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the "but pocket calculators though" argument, and I hate it. I hate it because a) we all suck at maths now and bi) yes we have calculators but do we actually use them? bii) we've lost the *feel* for maths, which means we can be manipulated by numbers much more easily.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having just started teaching new undergraduates at uni, I think we're missing a key issue in the debate about AI: these kids do not know how *not* to use AI, full stop. We assume they are 'digital natives' but they are not and a Google Scholar search is as alien to them as an archival card-index.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My first time on the Harvard campus and I’m talking to this nice elderly lady at the event reception in the faculty club, who a middle age guy introduces as ’his mom.’ I think ‘oh how nice.’ We are having a very good chat on AI. I look at her nametag and read ‘Sissela Bok.’ I nearly die on the spot
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone on here said that Altman’s eyes are identical to Elizabeth Holmes’ in that teaser and now I can never unsee it
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Construction workers get a bad rap for commenting on womens’ appearance but one just stopped me to tell me he appreciated my suit’s color coordination and I had to contain the impulse to hug him
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/09/2026
it is feeling a little morbidly funny--along the lines of my "bad boss" theory of AI interaction--to me this morning that "AI alignment issue" thus far resolves to "the program was trying to do what we wanted but got confused and we neither helped nor noticed"
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
Weizenbaum wept openai.com/index/introd...
openai.com
Introducing MentalHealthBench
MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Just as providers are using sophisticated A.I. tools to say their patients are sicker, insurance companies have been accused of using the tools to delay or deny care.... But as more hospitals and doctors use A.I., costs will continue to rise."
nytimes.com
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned
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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are literally saying ‘give us what we want, or humanity gets it.’
apnews.com
Tech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we created
The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026
How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They’re gonna hold hearings one day about what happens to these kids
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder which I’d choose: being assassinated by JCO or by Isaac Chotiner. It’s like my version of Alien vs Predator. Different experiences of death, same end result
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very ambivalent about free plane wifi - creates pressure to work when I could be reading a book. I’m gonna read a book
Cover of ‘Exit Party’ by Emily St. John Mandel
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting that loss of public support was most linked to AI ‘idea generation’ — suggests it is not just about people’s distrust of AI output, but their sense that science loses public value when torn from its root in human imagination and curiosity
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We observe how students actually used the AI tutor, and the answer is: not much." hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org
Students didn't get answers from Khanmigo. They didn't want its questions, either
A large study of Khan Academy’s math program found no extra benefits from AI
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I might write a little song about how standards don't fix anything without legal enforcement and routine safety inspections.
But we need to go further.
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Building on the meeting convened by His Majesty King Charles last week, I can announce today that l am going to put Al at the heart of the UK's G20 Presidency next year.
I look back at how we responded to the financial crisis back in 2008.
We moved quickly in the G20 and smaller groups to deliver an urgent, practical response.
We came together to agree principles - which everyone implemented at home in a way that was right for them. And it worked.
That is the kind of approach we need now.
So we will bring the right people together on the key issı
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And we will work towards agreeing a single set of global principles and standards to ensure the transparency and access we need to increase our preparedness - and to ensure that Al development is safe.
This will bring together welcome initiatives from others - like that proposed by Norway this week.
As His Majesty said, the task before us "is not merely to advance technology, but to ensure that it remains firmly in the service of humanity."
www.gov.uk
And I want to reassure un nush people that
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Short legged cat with stunned expression inside circular arrows; at top, ‘I wake up’; at bottom, ‘there is something wronger with Britain’
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i mean who needs universities it’s not like they play a vital role in the UK’s economy, global standing and cultural vitality
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Headed to Boston for this panel on AI and disagreement tomorrow at Harvard: the format is based on the 1970s Ethics in America PBS program - likely to be a very lively conversation, moderated by Lawrence Lessig. Join us if you’re in town!
ethics.harvard.edu
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow
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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An LLM is Smithers
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Progress.
ft.com
Five UK police forces end Palantir project after two years
Significant setback for US technology company’s bid to establish itself as key supplier to British law enforcement
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love this for us
sfgate.com
Big Tech's 'pervert' glasses take another hit
A new app can detect whether AI-powered smart glasses are in your vicinity.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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