Frank Pasquale

frankpasquale.bsky.social

18 October 2026 19:05

When one researcher has an agent email others for help, it may not be too annoying. But there are obvious problems with scale here, and I don't think the AI firms have thought them through. www.science.org/content/arti... At a bare minimum, the agent needs to identify as AI upfront.

Eryk Salvaggio

eryk.bsky.social

17 August 2026 01:45

“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.

Frank Pasquale

frankpasquale.bsky.social

16 August 2026 01:20

Emotions often entail visceral appraisals, which can only be simulated by computational systems. Moreover, one cannot sensibly compare a person’s cognition to the output of a hyperobject composed of myriad computers, engineers, data centers, etc. They are incommensurable phenomena.

Mark Sample

samplereality.bsky.social

07 July 2026 14:08

This is a big deal for my institution: we're now tuition-free for families under $175K annual income, and families under $85K get a full ride altogether.