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31 readings

  1. resource

    Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

    mathematics declarations

  2. news

    ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion

    journalism culture algorithms

  3. essay

    Against the Suspicion of Machines

    Very very excellent.

    start here law scholarship academia writing

  4. news

    ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

    journalism ethics philosophy big tech

  5. paper

    Hey GPT, can you help me understand the Universe?

    astrophysics research practice peer review

  6. paper

    AI can help scientists publish less

    cosmology publishing academia

  7. essay

    Essay Writing as Personal Sovereignty

    architecture writing thinking creativity

  8. essay

    Evolving Dark Energy and AI

    cosmology first-hand accounts research practice

  9. paper

    Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

    academia education critique

  10. paper

    What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?

    definitions cognition labour

  11. interview

    ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’

    film children regulation big tech

  12. paper

    Agentic research is oxymoronic

    cosmology agents understanding trust

  13. essay

    But is it fun?

    cosmology agents research practice

  14. essay

    Claiming the right to be unhappy

    cosmology creativity

  15. essay

    Find the stable and pull out the bolt

    start here cosmology academia writing

  16. paper

    Why do we do astrophysics?

    start here cosmology purpose of science academia research practice

  17. essay

    AI: Considerations for people who make decisions

    policy decision-making

  18. interview

    Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”

    Nicely measured social perspective.

    computer science statistics hype superintelligence society

  19. essay

    The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

    cosmology agents research practice thinking

  20. paper

    An Inverse Lyth Bound for Non-Attractor Inflation

    Will Kinney does an entire paper with ChatGPT.

    cosmology AI-generated research first-hand accounts

  21. paper

    Large language models are not the problem

    cosmology purpose of science research practice

  22. news

    Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

    journalism labour big tech

  23. resource

    Humans in the AI loop: the data labelers behind some of the most powerful LLMs' training datasets

    labour data

  24. paper

    Astrophysics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence powered by Large Language Models

    A very utilitarian take, orthogonal to David Hogg's arguments.

    astrophysics purpose of science research practice

  25. essay

    AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

    software development hype institutions decision-making

  26. paper

    A Five-Stage Framework for Slitless Grism Spectra: Demonstrated on Euclid Q1 Strong-Lens Candidates and Ported to CEERS NIRCam

    An example of what can happen when you generate a paper in a field that isn't your own.

    astrophysics poor AI use AI-generated research publishing

  27. essay

    Slop-Machine Future

    programming futures

  28. paper

    What understanding means in AI-laden astronomy

    astronomy understanding philosophy of science

  29. paper

    The indiscriminate adoption of AI threatens the foundations of academia

    cosmology academia critique

  30. paper

    Large Language Models Write Answers

    writing studies writing education

  31. paper

    The crisis of AI-generated mathematics

    Introduces the concept of "AI vegetarianism".

    mathematics critique

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