Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
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Benjamin Riley
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European countries were about a year ahead of the US on banning smartphones in school.
Just an observation.
The three players in this photo:
1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship.
2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname.
3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth
“In natural moments of doubt or uncertainty, students found more comfort in AI, lured into a falsehood and then ensnared and imprisoned in self-doubt.
Instead of Aadya growing stronger, AI grew on what she fed it: her ideas, prompts, work ethic, engagement, and ultimately, her confidence.”
This is an excellent thread on the nature of what LLMs are doing and, nestled neatly within, an important observation about the limitations of human communication (and the context we are always inferring).
Come for the broomsticks, stay for the genies.
Call me crazy but I think deploying a tool of cognitive automation within a culture of algorithmic social influence is not good for education.
This, but for all of education.
Dartmouth professor shares extended thoughts from his students on how much they loathe AI. A thread to make your blood boil.
Benjamin Riley
Tim Hirschel-Burns
Thanks @rawx.bsky.social for the inspiration!
“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learni...
"Instead, she urged educators to accept that most future writing would be produced in a partnership between artificial intelligence and human discernment." Grammarly head of education in article about how AI companies are producing both cheating detectors and cheating tools.
This essay present a highly accessible overview of what we know, and don’t know, about artificial neural networks. A refreshingly sane, skeptical, and insightful take.
I'm not really a "gamer," but I delight in evaluating generative AI by making it play human games. This week I enjoyed watching Agentic ChatGPT struggle mightily with the classic computer game Zork.
This one is for all my fellow Gen Xers who remember being eaten by grues.
Benjamin Riley
Jane Rosenzweig
this article starts with "guy who made the ipod seeing an ipod shuffle ad in the subway 20 years later" and ends with "vibe coding software for your rice cooker bc a tech company bricked it" and the stuff in the middle is also good techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/t...
New blogpost:
We Don't Understand Neural Networks At The Algorithmic Level
kripken.github.io/blog/neurosc...
So, why is this even a question? Don't scientists agree on whether we understand LLMs?
A. H. Zakai
Let’s return to those we trust with our words! @janerosenzweig.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social @thevogelman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theimpor...
The largest ongoing debate about AI is “Are Large Language Models (LLMs) intelligent?” That makes sense, at least: the evidence is ambiguous and the stakes a...
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
