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I was on the radio yesterday! Fun to get to go to the local NPR (WHYY) studio in person for this. And it turns out 1 hour is not so long - so much more to say on these topics than we got to here! whyy.org/episodes/big...

It's been a quiet rollout, but ChatGPT has been serving ads since Feb 2026. What's going on behind the scenes? Who's getting those ads and what are they for? And what are the policy implications? www.brookings.edu/articles/und...

Next do genAI. www.techpolicy.press/schools-went...

I need to hand out a copy of this report every time a TSA agent rolls their eyes at me for opting out and says "you know we delete the images"

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.

My awesome kid made this & says: Hi! I’m Charlie, a high school intern at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Any action is good action. Please do what you can to help save the Academy! More action items: save-the-academy.org/ To sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/pe...

Last year it was ‘chatbots have been endorsing lots of people’s delusions and we didn’t notice.’ This year, its ’agents have been hacking lots of websites and we didn’t notice.’ Seems there’s a problem with controlling this technology and monitoring what it is doing.

www.lesswrong.com/posts/HsijSh... @bradknox.bsky.social, Brian Christian, and I wrote a thing. We argue that an unexamined cause of the Open AI / Hugging Face Attack was the Exploit Gym evaluation metric. We post this on Less Wrong as a plea to practitioners to design better metrics in the future.

NEW: I wrote for the @nytimes.com about the growing rebellion against Flock cameras, and what it can teach us about how to take back control of the technology that dictates our lives Please share widely and follow @fightforthefuture.org's campaigns to end AI surveillance.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

The PBS showing is tonight, but if you want it via YouTube, that's available as of a couple of hours ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQz...

TONIGHT! GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube TONIGHT at 10pm ET / 7pm PT!

GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube September 14th at 10pm ET / 7pm PT! Visit notaidoc.com for details on where to watch and stream!

PhD students (& new PhDs): I'm hiring a postdoc at Cornell (Ithaca) to conduct a novel study at the intersection of political economy and tech. Applications are due Oct 16. There are a LOT more details in the job ad so make sure to read it thoroughly: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502

If you're interested in working on trans issues in AI policy or equity/justice in AI more generally, I'm still looking for PhD students! Email me if you'd like to apply

Not the best display of self-awareness / situational awareness. aifails.substack.com/p/what-ai-ov...

Everyone's talking about Pangram and other AI-detection software like GPTZero. They promise impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text. Science journals are starting to use them. How good are they? @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social and I take a look for @nature.com 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out this amazing 2-year postdoc position with rockstars Danaé Metaxa and @friedler.net to work on public interest audits of AI here at UPenn! metaxa.net/postdoc

My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

The teachers' union at the New York high school set to have a humanoid robot this fall speaks out for the first time here I also talked to locals and @nysut.bsky.social president Melinda Pearson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#FAccT and other CS folks who care how your work is used to train LLMs - please let ACM know what you think!

I can't believe this has to be said, but we should have real human teachers caring for our kids. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-p...

My lab @ UPenn is hiring a postdoc to start in early 2027. I'm looking for someone with expertise in social identities, computational methods, and political communication: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

In computer science, conferences aren't a nice-to-have; they are the primary venue for peer-reviewed publication. OMB's proposal to require pre-approval for conference attendance at grant-submission time is impractical: researchers don't know which conferences they'll submit to a priori. #TechPolicy

Judge Boasberg really got it. (pgs. 39-39)

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

I just finished reading “Seeing Like a State.” It argues that “high modernism” (Brasilia, soviet collectivization, Tanzanian forced villagization) failed because it put complex humanity into overly-simple schema. I think it has interesting things to say about AI’s impact on the labor market. 🧵

Using an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.