Reposted by Sam JacksonDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 6hI've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 177103832857
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 6hIt took me three tries to read this article. Almost everything Olah says about Anthropic's model is PR speak. And it's not even smart PR speak, it's just "wow I don't understand it so it must be human like!" 142
Reposted by Sam JacksonJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13hOmg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question 1171827335
Reposted by Sam JacksonColin @colin-fraser.net · 01/10/2026a large number of you seem to hold the bizarre mystical woo woo idea that neural networks are identical to brains 1014716
Reposted by Sam JacksonElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next. 571556258
Reposted by Sam JacksonJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, 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... 1525327800
Reposted by Sam JacksonEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 11933398
Reposted by Sam JacksonNathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips. 720972
Reposted by Sam JacksonGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?! 2964400930
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026This novel sent me down a bunch of fun rabbit holes. Our Lady of Medjugorje was one of the funnest. 041
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026At TASM this year, I heard some presentations that had me thinking about a big question: As researchers of online harms, what should our relationship be with industry when industry isn’t a good faith partner? 121
Reposted by Sam JacksonAudrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do you research online extremism at a university in Australia, NZ, UK, US, Canada or Ireland? Consider taking this survey which compare ethics review boards' and researcher perception and understanding of the risk of online extremism research. For more info: soton.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...soton.eu.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 1411
Reposted by Sam JacksonRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How it started/how it’s going 763796696
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026Trying to make a service appt for my car. Now the chatbot not only has vocal fry, they put background ambient noise in to make it more pseudo-real. Not like calming ambient noise, ambient noise like what you would hear if you were talking to someone in a busy showroom. 350
Reposted by Sam JacksonDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895441937
Reposted by Sam JacksonAlex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9. 34555
Reposted by Sam JacksonTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄 51266115
Reposted by Sam JacksonJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 27/09/2026Someday, when I am all grown up, I will remember to put tags on my posts. #booksky #fiction #thriller 031
Reposted by Sam JacksonKeith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Me, setting the blender to MAX with the lid off: "technology is truly advancing beyond our control" 36222
Reposted by Sam JacksonG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026Every day we get closer to this: 121461448
Reposted by Sam JacksonG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026I was promised robots that would tackle the dangerous and physically demanding work so that humans could be freed up to make MORE art. Where the hell is THAT future 636860
Reposted by Sam JacksonKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 632915955
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026I (poorly) run my department's LinkedIn page right now. Every time I log in, I get more depressed about the world. I hate it so much. 240
Reposted by Sam JacksonJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 25/09/2026New from me: Day jobs and night jobs, a reflection on why I wrote this book now, and what the future holds. thebergerdispatch.com/day-jobs-nig...thebergerdispatch.comDay Jobs, Night JobsIf you knew me before today, it was most likely because of my day job. I’ve spent almost 20 years researching and writing about terrorism… 052
Reposted by Sam JacksonDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it. 316563
Reposted by Sam JacksonTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 24/09/2026I conclude that we should treat false citations---not citations with errors, FALSE citations---as evidence of fraud because they are knowing misrepresentations of the truth to induce others to treat their manuscript favorably. Happy to hear alternative views. 4568
Reposted by Sam JacksonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project? 15145821297
Reposted by Sam JacksonDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6437511482
Reposted by Sam JacksonSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913442930
Reposted by Sam JacksonJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 23/09/2026Hannibal Lecter warns UN that without intervention he will eat more people 1222
Reposted by Sam JacksonMelissa Deckman @melissadeckman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please join @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social and me tomorrow for an overview of @prri.org 's latest survey report, releasing tomorrow, that examines who in America is most likely to resist Christian Nationalism at 11 am! 064
Reposted by Sam JacksonFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026I have no problem with devoting SOME funding and effort to understanding the risk of AI killing us all. But I think it's insane that in 2026, as we're watching AI cause right-now harms to right-now people, that the ethical tech space has been almost entirely taken over by these galaxy-brain fears. 632045
Reposted by Sam JacksonLily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Apply for @snfagora.bsky.social 's Postdoctoral Fellowship by November 5. See details here! snfagora.jhu.edu/fellowships-...snfagora.jhu.eduPostdoctoral Fellows ProgramPostdoctoral Fellows Program SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University 0149
Reposted by Sam JacksonCynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you had told 1994 me, as I sat with my roommates on Cornell’s Libe Slope picking out cloud shapes and wondering aloud what the future would hold for us, that I’d be coming back to give the University Lecture someday, I would’ve never believed it. Or if you said 1/ as.cornell.edu/news/leading...as.cornell.eduLeading scholar of extremism to give University LectureCynthia Miller-Idriss ’94 will deliver a Cornell University Lecture examining links between misogyny and violent extremism. The leading scholar’s Sept. 30 talk, co-sponsored by departments in the Coll... 48510
Reposted by Sam JacksonRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms." 703490625
Reposted by Sam JacksonMark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Reader, I sobbed at the end of this. Because ALL our children deserve better than the world we are bequeathing them.nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 48832
Reposted by Sam JacksonJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 19/09/2026Have you heard the Good News? 073
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026I’m *sure* I’ve seen a political scientist out there who wrote a guide to book workshops. Maybe it was @mirya.bsky.social in her newsletter? Help me, friends. 031
Reposted by Sam JacksonEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...edition.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 519269
Reposted by Sam JacksonKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or carearstechnica.comUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesFor the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. 7944661583
Reposted by Sam Jacksonassbutt @nasboat.org · 17/09/2026I am so goddamn tired of this shit. support transgender people or fuck off forever 301438238
Reposted by Sam JacksonJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 17/09/2026I have five ARC copies of The Pope's Hitman available! If you have a pod or newsletter that would review of this upcoming thriller, or use it as a jumping off point for another kind of article or discussion (such as "creative ways to cope with the collapse of higher ed"), slide into my DMs! 2115
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026We're talking Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in my homeland security class today. I found this amazing video to introduce our discussion of the Church Committee. It's from 1975, but it could easily be from 2005 or 2025! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAG1...youtube.comThe Intelligence Gathering Debate - www.NBCUniversalArchives.comYouTube video by NBCUniversal Archives 000
Reposted by Sam Jacksonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now! 3304660700
Reposted by Sam JacksonMichael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Again, AI companies can slow down without waiting for regulation. Releasing models without adequate safeguards is a choice, not an inevitability. “Someone should make us stop” is a strange position for the people with their foot on the gas. 21410