The Graph Said So
There is a finding from a 2024 study published at the ACM CHI Conference that deserves more attention than it has received. Researchers analyzed nearly nine thousand COVID-19 data visualization posts on Twitter,
In the Absence of Reason
There is a pattern I keep running into. I’ve implied it and written around it, but it is time to be more direct.
A researcher observes a behavioral output in an AI
The Wrong Benchmark
What AI Governance Gets Wrong Before It Gets Anything Right
AI governance discourse has a baseline problem, and it is prior to both the technical problems and the regulatory problems; it is epistemic.
Foundations of Sand
How category errors in AI research lead to regulatory failure
The most consequential errors in AI discourse are not the obvious ones. They are the ones that survive peer review, get cited in
We Can Fix the Internet. That's Not the Hard Part.
The coverage of Claude Mythos followed a familiar pattern. Initial alarm about offensive capability followed by security community response followed by company mitigation and marketing, followed by a rapid news cycle. Then attention