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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'm struggling to see the value-add for the Vatican of doing this. Having discussions with tech leaders is one thing. Bringing them onstage is another. Maybe the Vatican thinks it shows that it has buy-in from a key mover. But many observers will read this as corporate capture.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Unveiling an Encyclical alongside someone creating exactly the problems that said Encyclical warns of feels like a giant self-own.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

People using AI to summarize the AI Encyclical proves the argument of the AI Encyclical.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Chatbots are about to be *flooded* with requests to summarize this.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If the market can’t punish companies for crappy products that nobody asked for—eg. sunglasses that spy on you, browsers that talk to you (and spy on you), AI companions that tell you to kill yourself (and spy on you) etc—then it’s not a market. It’s a prison.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In other AI news, prompt injections are here to stay based on this new paper from Abdelnabi and Bagdasarian. "an adversary can always construct a context under which a blocked flow appears legitimate, or a defender who tightens norms will block genuinely legitimate flows." arxiv.org/abs/2605.17634

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AI Agents May Always Fall for Prompt Injections

Prompt injection is the most critical vulnerability in deployed AI agents. Despite recent progress, we show that the prevailing defense paradigm (data-instruction separation) both fails to detect atta...

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Really hoping a commencement speaker mentions smart glasses in their speech.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It's good to see more people challenging the metaphor of the AI race. I wrote a report about this for @chathamhouse.org in 2023, and I think a lot of the findings still hold water today. www.chathamhouse.org/2023/04/reca...

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Recalibrating assumptions on AI

Towards an evidence-based and inclusive AI policy discourse

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Instead of putting vague AI assistance disclaimers on books and articles, we should be able to declare when a text is totally AI-free.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Friendly reminder that there are a ton of people out there writing good, informative, interesting books and articles without a jot of AI assistance. They won’t get any recognition for it whatsoever. The fact that they have to compete for bylines with people who secretly use AI is dumb and sad.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Friendly reminder that for every writer who gets caught using AI instead of doing their job there are untold numbers who are out there just getting away with it.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The fact that the AI hallucinated a quote from @merbroussard.bsky.social’s “Artificial Unintelligence” is truly perfection.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The fact that the AI hallucinated a quote from "Artificial Intelligence" is perfect.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/05/2026

So they are really going to lean into this, huh. nypost.com/2026/05/18/s...

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I wear Meta Glasses so I don't have to think — You won't either with this smart deal

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Look I know peer reviewers are super busy and they often don't get paid, but if you're not checking the citations then what you are doing is not peer review.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Modern warfare is weird. Baltic States are probably going to have to start installing interceptors to shoot down Ukrainian drones that get hijacked by Russia and diverted to targets inside their territory. I was on @deutschewelle.dw.com last night to discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7R7...

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Latvian prime minister resigns amid stray Ukrainian drones controversy | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

In case you needed any further proof of just how thoroughly drones have transformed warfare. Nobody is safe from aerial attack anymore, no matter where they are.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

For @economist.com I went deep on a big scary question: Could AI enable terrorists to develop bioweapons? The answer: yes, they could. But probably not quite yet.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Come on Forbes, "Slopreneurs" was right there.

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/05/2026

UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings. www.wired.com/story/google...

wired.com

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings.

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 01/05/2026

thanks Google AI 😳

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

As a society we need to ask ourselves why the self-repost is a functionality that exists on any platform, in any form. Why. I don't get it. What's the point.

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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Tech executives with their shoe-clad feet on sofas dot com.

Sam Altman, from a WSJ photo shoot, sitting upright on a red cushy sofa with one sneaker-clad foot tucked under him on the sofa and the other leg dangling off the edge of the sofa in front of him.

Meta executive Adam Mosseri, from a NY Times photo shoot several years ago, perched on the arm of a beige sofa with his (apparently sockless) loafer-clad feet plonked on the seat of the sofa.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I just had a long conversation with a senior SEO exec and I don't think we're ready for the absolute shit-storm that's in store for us once companies go all in on optimizing webpages for agents. If you thought the web was unpleasant now, buckle up.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Except for the reference to ChatGPT, every single word in this story—from insisting that a breakthrough is imminent, to the glossy portrayal of a world where robots make coffee and stock supermarket shelves, and the buried lede on ethical questions—could have been written a decade ago.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I'm on three social media platforms and as a result I am 600% more miserable than if I was on none.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Just as today's militaries scramble to figure out how to defend against drones, the dawn of military aviation set off a race to develop all manner of odd countermeasures—including these very silly acoustic detection horns from WWI.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This company started out making small unarmed robotic sailboats for environmental monitoring. Now it has unveiled the 170-foot, 250 ton "Spectre," which can be equipped with a range of missiles for anti-sub warfare and other attack roles. www.saildrone.com/news/introdu...

saildrone.com

Introducing Saildrone Spectre: Next-gen USV for ASW and VLS Strike – Saildrone

Saildrone’s largest, fastest, and most capable platform to date, Spectre is designed to fill a critical ASW capability gap and deliver high-speed and stealth kinetic strike.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It is obvious that outsourcing intelligence comes at a cognitive cost, and yet it is alarming that the cognitive cost is so catastrophically high.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The U.S. spends around two million dollars to shoot down each $35,000 Iranian drone. Iran spends a few hundred thousand dollars shoot down each $30 million U.S. drone. dronexl.co/2026/04/20/2...

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24 MQ-9 Reapers Lost Over Iran: A $720 Million Problem

Operation Epic Fury has cost the US Air Force 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones since late February. At roughly $30 million per airframe, the losses add up to around $720

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 20/04/2026

I used Amazon's new AI bot for recommending books based on my reading habits. One of the recommendations appears to be a shoe.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Everyone who was paying attention saw it coming. In some circles the drone cost asymmetry discussion has been raging for a decade.

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We all have days like this

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

People are having a great time dunking on this by saying things like "my car also goes faster than a human" but I doubt they'll be so smug when they're getting chased down an alley by one of these things for attending a protest.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The PM doth protest too much, methinks.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Drone operators controlling drones in the battlefield from outside of Ukraine. Interesting questions here about individuals taking on active combatant status despite being far beyond an active war zone.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We're living in the haughtiest times.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Because we all know that when it comes to art quantity ALWAYS trumps quality.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Pretty much sums up the state of journalism in 2026.

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I wrote about some previous studies on this last year, and what struck me is that while it is obvious that people who use AI to think for them will do less thinking, it is alarming just how drastic the effect is and how quickly these dependencies take hold. www.economist.com/science-and-...

economist.com

Will AI make you stupid?

Creativity and critical thinking might take a hit. But there are ways to soften the blow

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Arthur Holland Michel @writearthur.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Our era is going to be mocked relentlessly in the annals of history.

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