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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3h

The 2nd Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society kicks off Oct 28 and 29 rcais.github.io

Our agenda will feature: education, creativity, health, the humanities, sustainability, and aligned and accountable agents

We will be streaming most talks. Registration is open for remote attendees.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 6h

LinkedIn is 99% this. It is indeed tiresome

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14h

To do otherwise is just replacing flawed humans with flawed non-humans. Except now there is no accountability for the errors, and that is worse.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14h

Right? I get this all the time. What’s wrong with hallucinations? Humans hallucinate, make errors, get things wrong. We should want something better than us. We shouldn’t use it until it is better than us.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16h

Here is a story about a AAAI paper that got 5 human reviews and 1 AI review. The AI generated review contained a page-long counterexample to a proof in the paper. The AI’s counter example contained hallucinated errors. How does one rebut an AI reviewer? www.linkedin.com/posts/omerbp...

#aaai26 | Omer Ben-Porat | 13 comments

#AAAI26 This year, in addition to five human reviewers, we also received an AI review. The humans sort of liked the paper, so there's hope. The AI, however, took a bolder approach: it confidently d...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21h

Sacks, the walking talking manifestation of the ai industry’s regulatory capture of the government is accusing Anthropic of… wait for it… attempting regulatory capture

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 22h

Trump AI Czar Is Trying to Take Down Anthropic AI

David Sacks is at it again.

gizmodo.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah ego movies are always sound investments.

Not.

(Except John Wick.)

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Draft bill being circulated would ban chatbots for minors www.axios.com/2025/10/14/h...

Exclusive: Hawley circulating draft AI chatbot bill

Sen. Josh Hawley is turning up the heat on AI chatbot companions.

www.axios.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Tron 2.0 the game had an amazing story. They should have made that instead of Legacy
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

for the record: Tron: Ares was fine. Probably better than Legacy. Enjoy the pretty pictures, let your brain turn off for a couple hours. I saw it in 3D. They did a good job of the 3D. I think 3D movies are pointless but if you are going to see something in 3D this is a good one for that.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

They did a lot of set up for a sequel. They were clearly thinking to revitalize the franchise. I think it is really shocking that they didn’t know this was not a good movie.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Time from Tron to Tron 2: 28 years

Time from Tron 2 to Tron 3: 15 years

See you again in another decade

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

gizmodo.com

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 1d

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Legs are evolution’s attempt to invent wheels

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Kate

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Sadness

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, if this happened to me I would put it in my bluesky bio. But I can see how some might find it concerning

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 2d

The actual story has a pretty great lede, too, posing the eternal question:

“What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?”

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/13/h...

A peer-reviewed paper claimed a researcher was an expert in sex robots. He’s not.

3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots? That was the situation for one rather panicked research…

retractionwatch.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI claims to have solved issues with mental health of user.

And in other news: GPT erotica coming soon

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

Why yes I always drive in the opposite direction from my home for a while and regularly make U-turns and backtrack. Obviously.

Also, my commute by bike takes much less time than the algorithm thinks because it’s not actually on roads with traffic.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 1d

It looks like my phone is trying to learn my commute. But my regular commute is by bike along bike paths that mostly don’t follow roads. The AI is trying to map my data to roads cars can drive and the result is hilarious.

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · 1d

The (Virtual) CS+Law Workshop will start up this year on Friday, Oct 14, 1-3pm Central with:

- Cullen O’Keefe on "Law-Following AI: Designing AI Agents to Obey Human Laws"
- Mark Riedl (@markriedl.bsky.social) on "Legally Informed Explainable AI"

Full details: www.cslawworkshop.org

CS+Law

When: Third Friday of each month at 1 PM Central Time (sometimes fourth Friday; next workshop: Friday, October 17, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time). What: First 90 minutes: Two presentations of CS+Law...

www.cslawworkshop.org

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3d

Tron 3: it’s Morbin’ Time

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

Fascinating experiment

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 17d

Does AI get bored?

I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens

one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom

but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be

timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...

Does AI Get Bored?

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

Was just telling people that I thought OpenAI was trying to build a walled garden ala Apple.

WIRED @wired.com · 4d

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

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