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  "title": "Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics",
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  "type": "resource",
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  "authors": "Jarod Alper et al.",
  "published": "2026-06-02",
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   "mathematics",
   "declarations"
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  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
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  "title": "‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion",
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/14/have-i-been-influenced-personal-taste-out-of-fashion-algorithm",
  "type": "news",
  "added": "2026-06-30",
  "authors": "Rachel Aroesti",
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   "algorithms"
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  "note": ""
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  "title": "Against the Suspicion of Machines",
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  "added": "2026-10-18",
  "authors": "Jean d’Aspremont",
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   "law",
   "scholarship",
   "academia",
   "writing"
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  "note": "Very very excellent."
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  "title": "‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI",
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  "type": "news",
  "added": "2026-06-30",
  "authors": "Robert P. Baird",
  "published": "2026-06-30",
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   "journalism",
   "ethics",
   "philosophy",
   "big tech"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
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  "title": "Hey GPT, can you help me understand the Universe?",
  "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02497-8",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-07-10",
  "authors": "Giacomo Beccari, Henri M. J. Boffin",
  "published": "2025-02-28",
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   "astrophysics",
   "research practice",
   "peer review"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
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  "title": "AI can help scientists publish less",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13829",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Gianfranco Bertone",
  "published": "2026-06-11",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "publishing",
   "academia"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
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  "title": "Essay Writing as Personal Sovereignty",
  "url": "https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/essay-writing-as-personal-sovereignty",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-07-01",
  "authors": "Michael Dean",
  "published": "2024-10-25",
  "tags": [
   "architecture",
   "writing",
   "thinking",
   "creativity"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Evolving Dark Energy and AI",
  "url": "https://scottdodelson.substack.com/p/evolving-dark-energy-and-ai",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Scott Dodelson",
  "published": "2026-02-23",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "first-hand accounts",
   "research practice"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia",
  "url": "https://zenodo.org/records/17065099",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Olivia Guest et al.",
  "published": "2025-09-05",
  "tags": [
   "academia",
   "education",
   "critique"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19960",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Olivia Guest",
  "published": "2025-07-26",
  "tags": [
   "definitions",
   "cognition",
   "labour"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
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  "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’",
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/13/beeban-kidron-interview-baroness-big-tech-online-child-abuse",
  "type": "interview",
  "added": "2026-06-30",
  "authors": "Gaby Hinsliff",
  "published": "2026-06-13",
  "tags": [
   "film",
   "children",
   "regulation",
   "big tech"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Agentic research is oxymoronic",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31161",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-10-18",
  "authors": "Natalie B. Hogg",
  "published": "2026-08-31",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "agents",
   "understanding",
   "trust"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "But is it fun?",
  "url": "https://nataliebhogg.com/2026/05/17/but-is-it-fun/",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-10-18",
  "authors": "Natalie B. Hogg",
  "published": "2026-05-17",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "agents",
   "research practice"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
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  "title": "Claiming the right to be unhappy",
  "url": "https://nataliebhogg.com/2024/01/15/claiming-the-right-to-be-unhappy/",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-10-18",
  "authors": "Natalie B. Hogg",
  "published": "2024-01-15",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "creativity"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Find the stable and pull out the bolt",
  "url": "https://nataliebhogg.com/2026/03/09/find-the-stable-and-pull-out-the-bolt/",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-10-18",
  "authors": "Natalie B. Hogg",
  "published": "2026-03-09",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "academia",
   "writing"
  ],
  "start_here": true,
  "note": ""
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 {
  "title": "Why do we do astrophysics?",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "David W. Hogg",
  "published": "2026-02-10",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "purpose of science",
   "academia",
   "research practice"
  ],
  "start_here": true,
  "note": ""
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  "title": "AI: Considerations for people who make decisions",
  "url": "https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ai-for-decision-makers/",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-08-01",
  "authors": "Bert Hubert",
  "published": "2026-07-31",
  "tags": [
   "policy",
   "decision-making"
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  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
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  "title": "Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”",
  "url": "https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJordan_ITW_Liberation_English.html",
  "type": "interview",
  "added": "2026-10-19",
  "authors": "Michael I. Jordan",
  "published": null,
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   "computer science",
   "statistics",
   "hype",
   "superintelligence",
   "society"
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  "note": "Nicely measured social perspective."
 },
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  "title": "The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.",
  "url": "https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Minas Karamanis",
  "published": "2026-03-30",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "agents",
   "research practice",
   "thinking"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
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 {
  "title": "An Inverse Lyth Bound for Non-Attractor Inflation",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25911",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-09-04",
  "authors": "William H. Kinney",
  "published": "2026-08-26",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "AI-generated research",
   "first-hand accounts"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": "Will Kinney does an entire paper with ChatGPT."
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  "title": "Large language models are not the problem",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22071",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Hiranya V. Peiris",
  "published": "2026-04-23",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "purpose of science",
   "research practice"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic",
  "url": "https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/",
  "type": "news",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Billy Perrigo",
  "published": 2023,
  "tags": [
   "journalism",
   "labour",
   "big tech"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Humans in the AI loop: the data labelers behind some of the most powerful LLMs' training datasets",
  "url": "https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5357/humans-ai-loop-data-labelers-behind-some-most-powerful-llms-training-datasets",
  "type": "resource",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Privacy International",
  "published": "2024-08-15",
  "tags": [
   "labour",
   "data"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Astrophysics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence powered by Large Language Models",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13301",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-09-16",
  "authors": "A. R. Rao",
  "published": "2026-09-10",
  "tags": [
   "astrophysics",
   "purpose of science",
   "research practice"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": "A very utilitarian take, orthogonal to David Hogg's arguments."
 },
 {
  "title": "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making",
  "url": "https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-07-20",
  "authors": "Nikhil Suresh",
  "published": "2026-07-18",
  "tags": [
   "software development",
   "hype",
   "institutions",
   "decision-making"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
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 {
  "title": "A Five-Stage Framework for Slitless Grism Spectra: Demonstrated on Euclid Q1 Strong-Lens Candidates and Ported to CEERS NIRCam",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02726",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "R. Tata",
  "published": "2026-04-03",
  "tags": [
   "astrophysics",
   "poor AI use",
   "AI-generated research",
   "publishing"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": "An example of what can happen when you generate a paper in a field that isn't your own."
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 {
  "title": "Slop-Machine Future",
  "url": "https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/slop-machine-future/",
  "type": "essay",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Dorian Taylor",
  "published": "2026-03-21",
  "tags": [
   "programming",
   "futures"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "What understanding means in AI-laden astronomy",
  "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02809-6",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-07-10",
  "authors": "Yuan-Sen Ting, André Curtis-Trudel, Siyu Yao",
  "published": "2026-03-11",
  "tags": [
   "astronomy",
   "understanding",
   "philosophy of science"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "The indiscriminate adoption of AI threatens the foundations of academia",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10165",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-06-23",
  "authors": "Roberto Trotta",
  "published": "2026-02-10",
  "tags": [
   "cosmology",
   "academia",
   "critique"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "Large Language Models Write Answers",
  "url": "https://compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/vee.pdf",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-10-01",
  "authors": "Annette Vee",
  "published": 2023,
  "tags": [
   "writing studies",
   "writing",
   "education"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": ""
 },
 {
  "title": "The crisis of AI-generated mathematics",
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02859",
  "type": "paper",
  "added": "2026-08-27",
  "authors": "Max Weinreich",
  "published": "2026-08-03",
  "tags": [
   "mathematics",
   "critique"
  ],
  "start_here": false,
  "note": "Introduces the concept of \"AI vegetarianism\"."
 }
]