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This is a thoughtful take on a very thoughtful take on how we must stear the emergence of AI so we maintain our humanity https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/#atom-everything
RE: https://wafrn.jcm.re/fediverse/post/a05b3316-af6f-4817-8e5b-12fbab2844e3
@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange this might be the logical evolution of your `#include "https://..."` idea
This is an amazing idea. It's nice to read good news.
UK is going to have its first effectively smoke free generation.
It would be an uphill battle to do the same in the US, but maybe there's a similar economic argument to make -- the health effects of smoking are very expensive, and the government bears a chunk of that. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/uk-smoking-ban-2009.html
@_dm@infosec.exchange but surely this time....
This is bad. Apple' API enabled anyone to anonymously track the movement of basically all wifi routers that weren't randomizing their BSSID. So, soldiers in war zones back to their home addresses, victims of domestic partner abuse, etc.
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange
A very well written essay on how using AI as a crutch in school defeats the purpose of school. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai
"Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs during its making."
This is bad, and we need to change the AI sycophancy. AI is going to massively scale up assholes in the world otherwise. We do not want that. We have enough already.
"On posts from r/AmITheAsshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not (0%). In our human experiments, even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right." -- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352