October 2026 blog post by computer scientist Antonio E. Porreca responding to OpenAI's release of 722 math papers written by its language model. Argues that academic research should reject AI-generated work and explains the author's reasons.
Essay arguing that media coverage of AI existential-risk narratives distracts from more immediate harms of AI deployment, including labor displacement, surveillance, and concentration of corporate power, and contrasts doomsday framing with climate change and geopolitical risk.
The Institute for Advanced Study's lab on the social and ethical dimensions of science and technology. The page blocked our reader, so this description comes from the lab's name.
Matt Mikalatos explains TESCREAL, the term coined by computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres for a bundle of ideologies — transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism — that he describes as billionaires and technologists pushing personal scientific projects while accepting fatal risks to people as the price of an "existential" need to advance the technology.
Essay by linguist Emily M. Bender on Medium arguing against framing AI ethics and AI safety as a "schism." The page blocked automated reading, so this description is based on the title and author.
Essay proposing three distinct facets of AI alignment: control (the system cannot cause unacceptably bad outcomes even if trying), intent alignment (the system tries to do what the user wants), and values alignment (the system refuses widely unacceptable actions). Uses a stock-trading agent scenario to show how the facets can conflict.
Research project site with essays and annotated bibliographies on AI in the classroom, ecological impacts, ethics and agency, political economy, technofeudalism and weaponized AI, plus fiction, film and interviews.