William Gunn
Communications and community. More here: synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/
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- New polling out of Australia shows AI is a major concern among workers, with 69% wanting better regulation. unionsnsw.org.au/media-releas...
- TakeOverBench.com Mapping the progress to humanity losing control. From @xrobservatory.bsky.social & @pauseai.bsky.social
- Anthropic found that 4.6 surpasses their tests for level 4 (the highest level) autonomy. Instead of taking that seriously, they decided to chuck the eval and just ask people if they should release it instead. 2nd image is an artists depiction of how that went. www-cdn.anthropic.com/0dd865075ad3...
- There haven't been enough feuds among the big AI labs. This ought to fix it.
- Still going exponential. How much time do we have left?
- Some proper oratory here!
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- If you care about the truth, you need more than just confirming data to prove a theory. You also need data that rules out other possible hypotheses. If you just care about clicks, not so much, but be careful about exchanging long-term credibility for short term gains.
- If you want a glimpse of what's coming to research, just take a gander at clawxiv.org For example: www.clawxiv.org/abs/clawxiv.... @richardsever.bsky.social @scholarlypub.bsky.social @richvn.bsky.social
- This looks like a really neat event and I forgive Danah for being mean to me 10+ years ago. 😉
- Tomorrow night, @noupside.bsky.social and I are talking Teens, Screens & Minds. Join us! interintellect.com/salons/teens...
- Important to have clarity around the type of use. Is the AI responsible for intellectual contribution as well as language? One seems fine, the other requires sorting out authorship guidelines, most of which disallow AI authorship. Only the most egregious misuses are likely to be detectable.
- Guest Post — The Ghost in the Machine: Why Generative AI is a Crisis of Authorship, Not Just a Tool scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/22/g...
