David Weinberger

Research showing LLMs' (chat AI) covert racism, triggered by dialects, is even worse than their explicit racism. An example of when you can be shocked but not surprised. via Gary Marcus https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/covert-racism-in-llms #AI #Bias #chatAI #LLM

#Trump the Coward is skipping the #SuperBowl because he's afraid of being boo'ed? Here's a simple fix:

Bad Bunny, may I suggest you begin your set by asking the crowd to give a cheer for our President who was unable to make it to the stadium in person?

#Trump is literally playing one-dimensional chess.

For example, after leveling #Iran's civilian infrastructure doesn't remove the Iranian regime, what's our next step? What's left?

#1D

Shakespeare on the immigrant. Performed by Ian McKellan.
https://youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?si=9n2l9wZklLvNG3zt&t=1336 via @mathewi@journa.host

A petition to nominate Minneapolis and its people for the #Nobel Peace Prize. Excellent Idea! https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-the-nomination-of-the-city-of-minneapolis-and-its-people-for-the-2026-nobel-peace-prize

(Be sure to check the tiny print "Preferences" under the big orange button.)

#AI: From humans in the loop to humans in the flow. https://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Columns/Perspective-on-Knowledge/Humans-in-Loops-Flows-and-Dialogues-173602.aspx
(PS: Time to update that attribution. I'm a researcher at Harvard metaLab and affiliated with BKC)

I'm happy to be one of 160 (!) contributors to a report on ‘Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age' from Elon U. (No, not that Elon.)

Mine embraces LLMs as dialogic partners in a new synthesis of oral and literary cultures.

https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-publications/human-resilience-in-the-age-of-ai/

Joel Miller at BigThink brings to glorious life the 3,000 yr history of humans organizing the documents of their times, tracing an arc that leads beautifully, if not inevitably, to AI's approach. Terrific piece of writing! https://bigthink.com/the-past/ancient-ai/ (hat tip to @petersuber.bsky.social )

@ JeffJarvis remembers Jürgen Habermas, who just passed away, with a learned and thoughtful essay (from his excellent Gutenberg book) about the role of coffee houses and conversations in forming publics. https://medium.com/whither-news/habermas-and-his-coffeehouses-aa028baceee6

Rupert #Wegerif writes:

"#Dialogue, properly understood, is not the opposite of closure. It is the careful management of boundaries. It is the tension between maintaining identity and risking transformation. It is about structure, timing, and judgment. You have to be open enough to learn, but not so open that you dissolve the conditions that make learning possible in the first place."

"Dialogic intelligence is not radical openness. It is educated restraint"

https://rupertwegerif.substack.com/p/dialogue-contamination-and-educated

How many years before we no longer feel the need to put into scare quotes anything that might imply we think AI is conscious, because we assume the scare quotes are implied?

I say 2 years.

I created this (Gemini created it) for a friend but thought that others who also want to have it both ways simultaneously might find it useful. #AI #birthday

I am 100% in favor of adding #Trump to Mt. Rushmore ... to enable the iconic moment when the next administration lawfully dynamites it and we get to see it in slow motion over and over again.

(Note that this does not recommend violence against any person or any national monument.)

ACT NOW to get your opening night seats (7:30pm) for “Melania” at a popular Boston mega-theater before they're all left!“ #Melania #vile #humiliating

So true! And I hope every single American voter keeps that in mind!

Meanwhile, D.J. Trump's assessment that this half-time show was "absolutely terrible" is grounds to permanently remove the "DJ" from in front of his name. Get on it, Democrats! #BadBunny #Superbowl #Trump

Philip Noel-Baker is the only person to have won both an Olympic medal and the Nobel Peace Prize.

(But shhh! Don't tell Trump!!)

https://newsletter.mathewingram.com/a-young-poet-wrote-his-way-out-of-prison-in-the-early-1900s/?ref=when-the-going-gets-weird-newsletter

What's the over/under on #Trump signing our dollar bills with a #Sharpie?

(Also, what's an over/under?)