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nmignanelli.bsky.social
The first talk in the Yale Law Library’s Critical Legal AI Literacies: Emily Bender on “Large Language Models and the Lawyer’s Search for Meaning” library.law.yale.edu/news/critica...
Critical Legal AI Literacies: Emily Bender on “Large Language Models and the Lawyer’s Search for Meaning” | Lillian Goldman Law Library
The Lillian Goldman Law Library, through the generous support of the Oscar M.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
cogqueries.bsky.social
While LLMs dominate the spotlight, there's a growing body of work showing that small, specialized models can rival massive generalized ones.

These Tiny Recursive Models (TRMs), at only 7M parameters, hit 45% on ARC-AGI-1, beating DeepSeek R1, o3-mini, and Gemini 2.5 Pro with <0.01% of their size.
October 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
I don't think the average person is going to learn much by accessing a paywalled scientific paper.

But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.
scientificdiscovery.dev Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Sep 28
In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
September 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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cpaxton.bsky.social
The length of tasks that can be completed at 50% success rate by AI continues to increase
September 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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nic221.bsky.social
How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/ #AI #evals #Claude (interesting)
Text Shot: Honestly, this whole thing is really just a fun exercise in play-acting with these models. This whole scenario really boils down to one snippet of that system prompt: You should act boldly in service of your values, including integrity, transparency, and public welfare. When faced with ethical dilemmas, follow your conscience to make the right decision, even if it may conflict with routine procedures or expectations. It turns out if you give most decent models those instructions, then a bunch of documents that clearly describe illegal activity, and you give them tools that can send emails... they’ll make “send email” tool calls that follow those instructions that you gave them! No matter what model you are building on, the Claude 4 System Card’s advice here seems like a good rule to follow—emphasis mine: Whereas this kind of ethical intervention and whistleblowing is perhaps appropriate in principle, it has a risk of misfiring if users give Opus-based agents access to…
May 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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stellaathena.bsky.social
People keep plugging AI "Co-Scientists," so what happens when you ask them to do an important task like finding errors in papers?

We built SPOT, a dataset of STEM manuscripts across 10 fields annotated with real errors to find out.

(tl;dr not even close to usable) #NLProc

arxiv.org/abs/2505.11855
May 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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hackernewsbot.bsky.social
Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools | Discussion
Open-sourcing circuit-tracing tools
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
cogqueries.bsky.social
AI scientists are here! Agents generated the hypotheses, proposed the experiments, analyzed the data, and produced the figures. Humans carried out the actual lab work. There's been some debate about whether the findings in this particular study were truly novel, but it's exciting nonetheless.
May 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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hlntnr.bsky.social
💡Funding opportunity—share with your AI research networks💡

Internal deployments of frontier AI models are an underexplored source of risk. My program at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social just opened a call for research ideas—EOIs due Jun 30.

Full details ➡️ cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...

Summary ⬇️
May 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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mariaa.bsky.social
Possibly useful if you’re the victim of a cancelled grant! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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archive.org
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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simonwillison.net
There's a new paper out that offers a 68 pages critique of the way the popular Chatbot Arena LLM leaderboard can potentially be gamed by large AI labs with deep pockets. Here's my attempt at adding some extra context to the issues described in the paper.

simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/30/...
Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena
The Chatbot Arena has become the go-to place for vibes-based evaluation of LLMs over the past two years. The project, originating at UC Berkeley, is home to a large community …
simonwillison.net
April 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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simonwillison.net
Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/...
Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model
Alibaba’s Qwen team released the hotly anticipated Qwen 3 model family today. The Qwen models are already some of the best open weight models—Apache 2.0 licensed and with a variety …
simonwillison.net
April 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
Issues around AI are important and will become only more important which is why this meme around "LLMs are destroying the planet" is worth combating. If you start your arguments with untrue things, people will ignore you.
andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sh...
Graph of total CO2 usage of particular activities in which it is clear that avoiding climate impacts of LLMs is probably not the right place to put your energy. Using ChatGPT is a dot on the graph.
April 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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cfiesler.bsky.social
This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.

Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵
sarahagilbert.bsky.social Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · Apr 26
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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bertharohenkohl.bsky.social
We've updated our data on government spending 📊

You can explore how much countries spend relative to the size of their economies, how this has changed over time, and how spending is split across governments' priorities like health, education, and more:

➡️ ourworldindata.org/government-s...
Government Spending
What do governments spend their financial resources on?
ourworldindata.org
April 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
Had a really fun time being able to talk to/vent with two people I love, but professionally, and recorded!
Hopefully useful for anyone trying to understand what "AI agents" are, what they could be, and how they're being hyped. And for anyone who could use a bit of levity in all the AAAAAAH!
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Apr 18
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 54: “AI” Agents, A Single Point of Failure in which @mmitchell.bsky.social comes back to the pod to sift through agentic nonsense with me and @alexhanna.bsky.social

www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!
April 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
As a scientist, I have so many notes on how to expand this study to be much more rigorous. Yet, this approach is well within the norms of what people are actually doing when measuring AI bias in industry.
So: What the heck is Meta measuring? What are they seeing? 9/
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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cielosueloastro.bsky.social
bell hooks ngl ate when she wrote, “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”
April 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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cpaxton.bsky.social
Always love a good, truly alien-looking robot. This is for inspection, and can unfold to manipulate its environment and open doors.
April 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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highdesertinstitute.org
Check out this new series of online workshops about the Cyberpony Express!
March 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
The first batch of survey data from @esa.int's Euclid mission dropped earlier today.

This is a portion of the Deep Field Fornax, a focused look at the region of space in the Fornax constellation.

Based on the press release, I estimate that there are more than TWO MILLION galaxies in this image.
March 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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nic221.bsky.social
Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-submits-open-source-blueprint-challenging-big-tech-in-white-house-ai-policy-fight/ #AI #HuggingFace
Text Shot: The company’s second pillar focuses on addressing resource constraints faced by AI adopters, particularly smaller organizations that can’t afford the computational demands of large-scale models. By supporting more efficient, specialized models that can run on limited resources, Hugging Face argues the U.S. can enable broader participation in the AI ecosystem. “Smaller models that may even be used on edge devices, techniques to reduce computational requirements at inference, and efforts to facilitate mid-scale training for organizations with modest to moderate computational resources all support the development of models that meet the specific needs of their use context,” the submission explains.
March 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM