Tom Howarth

tomhowarth.bsky.social

23 September 2026 15:47

What this paper doesn't show: AI has feelings What it does show: AI stores a concept of its own "pain-like state" and alters its behaviour (in pretty interesting/worthwhile investigating/weird ways) accordingly 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Gillian Hadfield

ghadfield.bsky.social

18 September 2026 19:49

I spoke to @amitkatwala.bsky.social at MIT Tech Review about DeepMind's new swarm experiment, where agents cheated and others blew the whistle. Official channels to talk may have contributed to enforcement. Alignment is institutional, not (just) dispositional. buff.ly/K2e5p0a

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

doctorow.pluralistic.net

16 September 2026 11:12

There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products): pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Elizabeth Sandifer

eruditorumpress.com

15 September 2026 21:27

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

Alex Hern

hern.bsky.social

10 September 2026 08:46

Google mapped the entire connectome of a fly brain and made it available for download research.google/blog/a-conne...