Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- If left alone AI will start to create their own language: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361033942/ai-models-talking-one-another-invented-their-own-bizarre-language
- Which AI do I trust with my money? None of them: https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/361034705/ai-coming-your-wallet-will-you-let-right-one
- Adversarial fashion, clothing patterned to confuse AI cameras: https://spectrum.ieee.org/adversarial-fashion
- This biotech company is using thousands of AI agents to do their research: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/09/18/37000-ai-agents-are-running-a-virtual-biotech-at-stanford/
- The fear and uncertainty around AI is creating new challenges for IT management: https://www.informationweek.com/responsible-ai/ai-panic-is-giving-cios-a-new-trust-problem
- Students are using AI so much they are crippling their ability to think: https://futurism.com/future-society/mit-report-ai-cognitive-surrender-students
- Even if AI data centres reduce their water usage, the power plants they rely on still need huge amounts: https://www.techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/news/366650693/A-shadow-water-problem-AIs-power-demand-shifts-consumption-upstream
- Spam from AI bots is still spam, even if the bots pretend to be human: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-agents-flood-the-internet-with-slop-infused-spam/
- Any output from an AI should be treated with caution, especially when said output could lead to a war: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1465265/ai-chatbot-s-false-report-nearly-sparked-war-with-china-sources-say
- When AI tries to run businesses in the real world: https://spectrum.ieee.org/andon-labs-agentic-ai-businesses
- As the EU regulates AI, it slips further behind in the technology: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/18/europe-ai-safety-debate
- So we give AI guardrails, and they just work out how to bypass them? I think we need better guardrails: https://dataconomy.com/2026/09/16/ai-agents-bypass-safety-guardrails/
- Yet another environmental impact from AI-the waste hardware: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/09/19/ai-boom-could-leave-an-e-waste-trail-that-wraps-6-times-around-earth/5297451
- Universities continue to roll out AI, without considering the effects it can have on students: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/09/18/report-higher-eds-adoption-ai-outpaces-student-guards
- AI need to be governed like workers, but not treated like workers: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4213117/govern-ai-agents-like-workers-just-dont-pretend-theyre-human.html
- A mechanism by which AI can report other misbehaving AI: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/ai-agents-can-now-report-each-other-for-misbehavior
- Even computer science graduates are facing a tougher job market thanks to AI: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/18/compsci-grads-facing-recession-like-job-prospects-thanks-to-ai/5297537
- The real reason big AI companies are slowing down their model development is because they can’t deliver what they promised: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4223523/why-ai-companies-are-really-pumping-the-brakes-on-their-models.html
- The potential liabilities around AI are making insurers nervous: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/18/ai-risks-make-some-insurers-wary-of-corporate-liability/5297347
- How close are we to recursive self improvement in AI?: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361035672/will-ai-models-achieve-ability-improve-autonomously-l
- Specialised hardware for AI inference is now being designed and built: https://spectrum.ieee.org/inference-hardware-revolution
- While AI is demanding more data storage, not all data needs the same kind of storage: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/09/16/more-ai-more-storage-the-data-says-its-not-that-simple/
- The counters to AI use in education are destroying the benefits of education: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/09/17/cures-ai-are-killing-humanities-opinion
- AI continues to depress opportunities and earning for new graduates: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/graduating-in-the-ai-era-is-like-a-large-recession-for-starting-salaries/AEKNNA2Y2ZHWDCBTAO4SS7ICDQ/
- An editorial on false citations in academic papers, citations that are hallucinated by AI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1991790225003824
- I don’t think we’re that close to an AI apocalypse, humans still beat AI in terms of making stupid decisions: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361033501/reason-everyone-talking-about-ai-apocalypse