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  <title>AI reading list</title>
  <subtitle>New additions to Natalie B. Hogg's AI reading list</subtitle>
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  <id>https://reading.nataliebhogg.com/</id>
  <updated>2026-10-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
  <author><name>Natalie B. Hogg</name></author>
  <entry>
    <title>Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”</title>
    <link href="https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJordan_ITW_Liberation_English.html"/>
    <id>https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJordan_ITW_Liberation_English.html</id>
    <updated>2026-10-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>interview · Michael I. Jordan · Nicely measured social perspective.</summary>
    <category term="computer science"/>
    <category term="statistics"/>
    <category term="hype"/>
    <category term="superintelligence"/>
    <category term="society"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Find the stable and pull out the bolt</title>
    <link href="https://nataliebhogg.com/2026/03/09/find-the-stable-and-pull-out-the-bolt/"/>
    <id>https://nataliebhogg.com/2026/03/09/find-the-stable-and-pull-out-the-bolt/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Natalie B. Hogg</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="academia"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Claiming the right to be unhappy</title>
    <link href="https://nataliebhogg.com/2024/01/15/claiming-the-right-to-be-unhappy/"/>
    <id>https://nataliebhogg.com/2024/01/15/claiming-the-right-to-be-unhappy/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Natalie B. Hogg</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="creativity"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>But is it fun?</title>
    <link href="https://nataliebhogg.com/2026/05/17/but-is-it-fun/"/>
    <id>https://nataliebhogg.com/2026/05/17/but-is-it-fun/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Natalie B. Hogg</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="agents"/>
    <category term="research practice"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Agentic research is oxymoronic</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31161"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31161</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Natalie B. Hogg</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="agents"/>
    <category term="understanding"/>
    <category term="trust"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Against the Suspicion of Machines</title>
    <link href="https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/against-the-suspicion-of-machines/"/>
    <id>https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/against-the-suspicion-of-machines/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Jean d’Aspremont · Very very excellent.</summary>
    <category term="law"/>
    <category term="scholarship"/>
    <category term="academia"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Large Language Models Write Answers</title>
    <link href="https://compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/vee.pdf"/>
    <id>https://compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/vee.pdf</id>
    <updated>2026-10-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Annette Vee</summary>
    <category term="writing studies"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <category term="education"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Astrophysics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence powered by Large Language Models</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13301"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13301</id>
    <updated>2026-09-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · A. R. Rao · A very utilitarian take, orthogonal to David Hogg's arguments.</summary>
    <category term="astrophysics"/>
    <category term="purpose of science"/>
    <category term="research practice"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>An Inverse Lyth Bound for Non-Attractor Inflation</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25911"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25911</id>
    <updated>2026-09-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · William H. Kinney · Will Kinney does an entire paper with ChatGPT.</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="AI-generated research"/>
    <category term="first-hand accounts"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The crisis of AI-generated mathematics</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02859"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02859</id>
    <updated>2026-08-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Max Weinreich · Introduces the concept of "AI vegetarianism".</summary>
    <category term="mathematics"/>
    <category term="critique"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>AI: Considerations for people who make decisions</title>
    <link href="https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ai-for-decision-makers/"/>
    <id>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ai-for-decision-makers/</id>
    <updated>2026-08-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Bert Hubert</summary>
    <category term="policy"/>
    <category term="decision-making"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics</title>
    <link href="https://zenodo.org/records/20302944"/>
    <id>https://zenodo.org/records/20302944</id>
    <updated>2026-07-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>resource · Jarod Alper et al.</summary>
    <category term="mathematics"/>
    <category term="declarations"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making</title>
    <link href="https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking"/>
    <id>https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking</id>
    <updated>2026-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Nikhil Suresh</summary>
    <category term="software development"/>
    <category term="hype"/>
    <category term="institutions"/>
    <category term="decision-making"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What understanding means in AI-laden astronomy</title>
    <link href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02809-6"/>
    <id>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02809-6</id>
    <updated>2026-07-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Yuan-Sen Ting, André Curtis-Trudel, Siyu Yao</summary>
    <category term="astronomy"/>
    <category term="understanding"/>
    <category term="philosophy of science"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Hey GPT, can you help me understand the Universe?</title>
    <link href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02497-8"/>
    <id>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02497-8</id>
    <updated>2026-07-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Giacomo Beccari, Henri M. J. Boffin</summary>
    <category term="astrophysics"/>
    <category term="research practice"/>
    <category term="peer review"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Essay Writing as Personal Sovereignty</title>
    <link href="https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/essay-writing-as-personal-sovereignty"/>
    <id>https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/essay-writing-as-personal-sovereignty</id>
    <updated>2026-07-01T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Michael Dean</summary>
    <category term="architecture"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <category term="thinking"/>
    <category term="creativity"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>‘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’</title>
    <link href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/13/beeban-kidron-interview-baroness-big-tech-online-child-abuse"/>
    <id>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/13/beeban-kidron-interview-baroness-big-tech-online-child-abuse</id>
    <updated>2026-06-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>interview · Gaby Hinsliff</summary>
    <category term="film"/>
    <category term="children"/>
    <category term="regulation"/>
    <category term="big tech"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI</title>
    <link href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/30/theres-this-deep-mystery-of-what-actually-is-this-thing-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind"/>
    <id>https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/30/theres-this-deep-mystery-of-what-actually-is-this-thing-the-philosopher-inside-google-deepmind</id>
    <updated>2026-06-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>news · Robert P. Baird</summary>
    <category term="journalism"/>
    <category term="ethics"/>
    <category term="philosophy"/>
    <category term="big tech"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion</title>
    <link href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/14/have-i-been-influenced-personal-taste-out-of-fashion-algorithm"/>
    <id>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/14/have-i-been-influenced-personal-taste-out-of-fashion-algorithm</id>
    <updated>2026-06-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>news · Rachel Aroesti</summary>
    <category term="journalism"/>
    <category term="culture"/>
    <category term="algorithms"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Why do we do astrophysics?</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · David W. Hogg</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="purpose of science"/>
    <category term="academia"/>
    <category term="research practice"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19960"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19960</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Olivia Guest</summary>
    <category term="definitions"/>
    <category term="cognition"/>
    <category term="labour"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.</title>
    <link href="https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/"/>
    <id>https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Minas Karamanis</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="agents"/>
    <category term="research practice"/>
    <category term="thinking"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The indiscriminate adoption of AI threatens the foundations of academia</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10165"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10165</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Roberto Trotta</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="academia"/>
    <category term="critique"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Slop-Machine Future</title>
    <link href="https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/slop-machine-future/"/>
    <id>https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/slop-machine-future/</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Dorian Taylor</summary>
    <category term="programming"/>
    <category term="futures"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Large language models are not the problem</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22071"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22071</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Hiranya V. Peiris</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="purpose of science"/>
    <category term="research practice"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Humans in the AI loop: the data labelers behind some of the most powerful LLMs' training datasets</title>
    <link href="https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5357/humans-ai-loop-data-labelers-behind-some-most-powerful-llms-training-datasets"/>
    <id>https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5357/humans-ai-loop-data-labelers-behind-some-most-powerful-llms-training-datasets</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>resource · Privacy International</summary>
    <category term="labour"/>
    <category term="data"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic</title>
    <link href="https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/"/>
    <id>https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>news · Billy Perrigo</summary>
    <category term="journalism"/>
    <category term="labour"/>
    <category term="big tech"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Evolving Dark Energy and AI</title>
    <link href="https://scottdodelson.substack.com/p/evolving-dark-energy-and-ai"/>
    <id>https://scottdodelson.substack.com/p/evolving-dark-energy-and-ai</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>essay · Scott Dodelson</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="first-hand accounts"/>
    <category term="research practice"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia</title>
    <link href="https://zenodo.org/records/17065099"/>
    <id>https://zenodo.org/records/17065099</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Olivia Guest et al.</summary>
    <category term="academia"/>
    <category term="education"/>
    <category term="critique"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>AI can help scientists publish less</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13829"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13829</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · Gianfranco Bertone</summary>
    <category term="cosmology"/>
    <category term="publishing"/>
    <category term="academia"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>A Five-Stage Framework for Slitless Grism Spectra: Demonstrated on Euclid Q1 Strong-Lens Candidates and Ported to CEERS NIRCam</title>
    <link href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02726"/>
    <id>https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02726</id>
    <updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>paper · R. Tata · An example of what can happen when you generate a paper in a field that isn't your own.</summary>
    <category term="astrophysics"/>
    <category term="poor AI use"/>
    <category term="AI-generated research"/>
    <category term="publishing"/>
  </entry>
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