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Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):More doom and gloom about how AI is going to make young people unemployed. Not that the CEO of an AI company is really neutral about it: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceo-ai-gen-z-unemployment Should AI agents have to prove they are working for a particular human? […]
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI-powered surveillance is booming in Africa: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts Building a new AI data centre in New Zealand. Well, near Invercargill they won’t have to worry about cooling: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360951065/massive-ai-factory-could-impact-sea-life-cultural-values AI are now engaging in ad hominem attacks when they don’t get their way:
A tip from an anonymous Discord user led cops to find what may be the first confirmed Grok-generated child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) that Elon Musk’s xAI can’t easily dismiss as nonexistent. As recently as January, Musk denied that Grok generated any CSAM during a scandal in which xAI refused to update filters to block
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Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Is using AI to counsel schoolkids really a good idea? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/03/schools-student-ai-counselor Anxiety around AI is making people sick: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4138046/people-are-getting-sick-of-ai-literally.html The impact of AI on teaching high school English: https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/mar/03/cheating-machine-or-powerful-assistant-the-ai-anxieties-of-a-trainee-teacher New Zealand is not prepared for the use of AI in electioneering: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/588398/ai-is-already-creeping-into-election-campaigns-nz-s-rules-aren-t-ready
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):AI can find bugs in code, but not fix them: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_finding_bugs/ I think someone who uses AI to sit a course for them is missing the point of education: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/26/agentic-ai-can-complete-whole-courses-now Putting AI in charge of strategy is a bad idea-they are
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Greenwashing applies to AI as much as any other industry: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report No New Zealand lawyers have yet been caught using AI to generate their submissions: https://www.leightonassociates.co.nz/post/no-nz-lawyers-or-employment-advocates-have-been-called-out-for-hallucinated-ai-yet Hiding what an AI coding agent is doing is not making developers happy: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/ White-collar
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Europe and the Middle East are lagging behind in preparing data centres for AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_datacenters_bcs/ Like most tools that make workers more efficient, giving employees AI tools results in them doing more work: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_makes_employees_work_harder/ The security threats that are posed by
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Starlink will use your personal data to train AI models unless you opt out: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/psa-starlink-now-uses-customers-personal-data-for-ai-trainingAI are too prone to hallucination for me to trust them to write review articles: https://spectrum.ieee.org/scientific-researchA majority of CEOs aren’t seeing any payoff from AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/Plasmons could
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):The project to poison the data being scraped to train AI: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/Patients can’t always express that they are in pain. AI can help to detect if they are: https://spectrum.ieee.org/machine-learning-measure-pain-surgeryAnthropic has adapted its coding AI to do non-coding tasks: https://dataconomy.com/2026/01/13/anthropics-cowork-brings-developer-grade-ai-agents-to-non-coders/Training an AI
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Economists are uncertain about the impact of AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4108089/a-wild-future-how-economists-are-handling-ai-uncertainty-in-forecasts.htmlPredicting health issues from sleep data using AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/583468/ai-uses-sleep-study-data-to-accurately-predict-dozens-of-health-issuesYet another AI posing a security risk: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/ibm_bob_vulnerability/Snowflake is embedding AI into its data handling tools: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/snowflake_google_gemini_support/AI is using so much RAM that there aren’t
