Dispiriting, candid look at the “civic education” movement which makes me feel that the real crisis of the humanities rn is utter collapse of belief that they can produce new knowledge—replaced (on the right and sometimes the left) by a belief that they are morally or politically good for you
Stuart Russel sharing hopes that we don't need a huge disaster to do what we already know we should do re: AI: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Biomedical advances such as lenacapavir depend on years of publicly funded basic research
Conclusion agentic search is coming for library/academic search and is going to be crazily disruptive
Powerful piece from two former NIH staffers
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Schneier on opening the Pandora's Box of AI capabilities: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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LLMs learn narrative from their pretraining data but what narrative content is actually in there? It turns out narrative is wildly unevenly distributed across sources and topics. New preprint with @andrewpiper.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social:
