The US Administration may have just ended public-use microdata, a central pillar of research that estimates the true effects of social policy and keeps the government accountable. Thread—>
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"The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results. Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams...
[A]t Google's scale, it means millions of wrong answers every hour"
Innovative performer, dancer, and prop manipulator Nik Robson-King has passed away. He was a dear friend—always generous and kind.
Watch his absolute control over his body and its relationship to both time and to the viewer. It's impossible to describe, just watch.
The video is not in slow motion.
Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...
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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
Very pleased to have been on the leadership team for this paper!
LLMs are already being used all over behavioural science. But it is often pretty hard to work out exactly what has been done, and therefore how much confidence to place in the results.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Teknologirådet har gjennom 35 case dokumentert og vurdert bruk av KI i vårt eget arbeid med teknologivurdering, blant annet til kartlegging av eksperter og aktører, horisontskanning, utvikling av scen...
Since life is keeping me busy I don't have time to do much writing and what not now, so just to keep my blog active I fired off a quick post about the latest report on the humanities.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...
Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...
NEW: The Trump administration is banning one of the Census Bureau's main ways of protecting the confidentiality of people's responses to the #2030Census and other surveys — added statistical "noise," or data for fuzzing survey results
www.commerce.gov/opog/disclos...
