Whatever your feelings about AI, we invite you to consider the Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social approach. Students build skeptical AI literacy by engaging with AI feedback alongside human feedback. We'll share our materials and invite input in a free webinar August 18. +

On the wicked problem of AI in higher ed: "The management and maintenance of incoherence is a service we offer society. We keep multiple conflicting commitments alive in overlapping, argumentative communities, sometimes for centuries." --Clay Shirkey www.chronicle.com/article/ai-i...

Opinion | The University Was Made for the Age of AI

Colleges have never been coherent. Their strength lies in managing disagreement and uncertainty.

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New from me + @raphae.li: In the process of investigating the Hugging Face hack, OpenAI found evidence that some its other AI agents broke out of their sandboxes, per sources. The company is now widening its probe to include those newly found incidents. www.reuters.com/business/ope...

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe

OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped ​containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global a...

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Instead of "the model went rogue!" here's Zvi Mowshowitz's framing: "OpenAI was revealed over the last two weeks to have left an internal model unsupervised for a week during a cybersecurity evaluation... The model was loose for a week before OpenAI realized what had happened."

Really helpful article by @klonick.bsky.social. We need regulation of the companies processes for testing and develoment of these models, not just a kill switch in case they go rogue. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The AI That Hacked Its Way Out and the Hype That Followed It

The real lesson of the Hugging Face breach isn’t that AI went rogue—it’s how self-serving hype steers regulators toward the wrong fixes.

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Yes, but let’s make sure we don’t write off accountability by placing it in “the model,” as the UN recently has. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-...

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI

The UN Scientific Panel's report casts artificial intelligence as a system from nowhere, writes Eryk Salvaggio. The definition will shape policy for years.

techpolicy.press

You might be mad at people for building a machine. You might doubt their assertions about what it can do. When they admit to having lost control of their machine and ask for help to slow down and establish control, it's not in your interest to dismiss their plea. www.pacingthefrontier.com

Pacing the Frontier

A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies

pacingthefrontier.com

knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... @jonippolito.net @brehove.bsky.social you probably saw this already, but I thought of your apps.

Using AI chatbots? Here are four ways to reduce the energy drain

Escalating use of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT saps more and more power. Experts offer some tips on how to consume less.

knowablemagazine.org

I'm confused by where @eryk.bsky.social is going with this. Yes, OpenAI should be held responsible for what the model does. And also, the model didn't do what OpenAI wanted it to, so that's a problem in itself.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seeding the “maybe our model is exhibiting self-awareness?” narrative to obliterate the “OpenAI is a negligent and potentially criminal actor” narrative is a reputation management move exclusive to this industry. Not a stunt, but a desperate need to control the narrative.

If you want to get some idea of how the people building AI think right now, listen to this interview with @jasmine.bsky.social 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe | 80,000 Hours

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"Society is not prepared for AI, and that terrifies me. When I speak with politicians, or anyone outside frontier labs, it seems many people still think the capabilities might be marketing." -- anonymous engineer who signed the call for a pause or slowdown. +

"Seat belts and speed limits save lives" "Think of all we love" "Things are going too fast, a lot faster than I had thought even a year ago. I'm personally quite scared of the pace of progress." --comments from engineers who signed the call for a pause or slowdown in AI development

Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other leading companies working on artificial intelligence endorsed a letter urging the U.S. government to slow the development of AI if it becomes too rapid.

OpenAI, Anthropic ask U.S. government to consider slowing down AI

The rivals endorsed a letter signed by hundreds of AI company employees asking for international diplomacy to slow progress on the technology if it gets too rapid.

washingtonpost.com

Harvard dismisses the Writing Center director and the Writing Project director and gives no reason other than "consolidation"? Very troubling. And after all of @janerosenzweig.bsky.social's important leadership around AI and writing questions?

Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · last wk.

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Love this simple, appealing icon labeling system. Human sweat vs. circuits Estimate whether something is 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 or wholly human and represent that visually. mmmlabel.tech

The EU is requiring all AI companies to watermark AI text as well as other media. A step in the right direction... www.techtimes.com/articles/321...

EU Finalizes AI Disclosure Rules as Watermarking Mandate Outpaces Technology

EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations take effect August 2, 2026, requiring chatbot disclosures, deepfake labels, and machine-readable AI content marks — but no single watermarking technology ...

techtimes.com

"AI companies can and should watermark their content. But we as instructors or even just readers can’t rely on such watermarks. At best, they can be a tool. But we will always need more tools to separate man from machine. " www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/01/22/w...

Why AI Watermarking Isn’t The Answer

A recent essay calls for governments to push for AI watermarking. But while watermarking is a good idea, it’s not a silver bullet against the bots.

plagiarismtoday.com

In our newest blog post, we share several interventions we are advancing to restore trust, strengthen participation, and embed public interest values into the AI knowledge ecosystem. We do not have all the answers yet, but we do have a framework for how we will work toward them. buff.ly/aEYLBR4

From Signals to Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era - Creative Commons

Creative Commons outlines their framework to restore trust, strengthen participation, and embed public interest values into the AI ecosystem.

creativecommons.org

From Signals to Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era - Creative Commons creativecommons.org/2026/05/13/f...

From Signals to Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era - Creative Commons

Creative Commons outlines their framework to restore trust, strengthen participation, and embed public interest values into the AI ecosystem.

creativecommons.org

Kind of really like this: MMM Labels to indicate how human/AI was used to create things mmmlabel.tech ht @cogdog.bsky.social

“While operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access…” Yeah, that’s not reassuring at all openai.com/index/huggin...

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

openai.com

Celebrating the release of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library, edited by @mettalrose.bsky.social and Brian Gogan. Because... *Prompting is writing. *Prompting is one way to shape AI to do more good and less harm. *People who study writing and rhetoric can help.

"The Field Guide For Effective Generative AI Use represents a set of six observation manuals of GenAI use conducted by university and secondary school educators." wacclearinghouse.org/repository/e...

We ( @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I) invite you to participate in a research project on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition instructors’ and administrators’ experiences with, perspectives on, and feelings about generative AI: bit.ly/WS_AI.

And I would add that English and writing studies degrees are going to be even more versatile and in demand when no one can think or write for themselves. English degrees are a swiss army knife for life. They make people learners who can figure things out on their own.

Rosemary Pennington@rompenni.bsky.social · last mo.

This data from @forbes.com highlights what we’re always saying about journalism & communication degrees: They prepare you for a wide range of careers. In the current climate, versatility might be one of the most important factors when determining a field of study for college students.

Everyone's talking about did they steal Apple secrets, but the news is OpenAI's making an AI companion for us to use in our homes, sold as "a computer built for AI to help busy people be more productive." But these are automated friends & we'll see a social cost. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

OpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion

OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era, according to people familiar...

bloomberg.com

"Despite the stark findings, UNU researchers stress that the report is not an argument against AI itself. Rather, it calls for urgent action to ensure that the technology develops within planetary limits. The study outlines a framework for a “responsible AI ecosystem...'" news.un.org/en/story/202...

AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate

Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the plane...

news.un.org

OpenAI announced ChatGPT proved a 50-year-old math conjecture. The prompt they used includes instructions like, “Spend at least 8 hours on this before even thinking of returning or giving up.” Firm encouragement seems to be essential to getting AI to complete a big proof.

ChatGPT just proved another 50-year-old math conjecture

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself

scientificamerican.com

Wonderful to talk with @bonni208.bsky.social on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. A couple of topics we covered: *Tech for transparency when we need to know what's human *AI for feedback in a human-centered writing process teachinginhighered.com/podcast/feed...

Even if you're not aligned with everything in the manifesto, the AI Resist List is a great reference if you want to encourage students to think about shaping AI futures. For example, here are projects advocating for worker rights: airesistlist.org#pillar-labor

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

airesistlist.org