a cognitive scientist here: there are no functions (brain or otherwise) dedicated to "performing" human feelings

WIRED@wired.com · 4mo ago

Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.

My Latest Article for @openDemocracy UK: How African creators are currently being exploited in the AI boom A. Globally, AI-generated outputs are projected to cause a potential 20% revenue loss for creators in the music and audiovisual sectors. www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/how-...

African creators are being exploited in the AI Boom

To turn the tide and address AI threats, African copyright frameworks need to be revised.

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"A flood of sometimes conflicting analyses shows the yawning gap between what little is known about how AI is changing work and everyone’s understandable hunger for certainty." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

See which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may be able to adapt

Most web designers will be fine. Many secretaries won’t. Women largely hold the most vulnerable occupations. Look up your job to see how at risk it is.

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A new publication - Attention (And Money) Is All You Need: Why Universities Are Struggling to Keep AI Talent - tracked the employment, earnings, and research output of 42,000 AI researchers (US-based) over two decades (2000-2020), and reveals some interesting findings.

Currently reading. Any thoughts from folks who've had the chance to read this?

Africa's research output in Artificial Intelligence is very low and requires public investment. Between 2014-2023, African researchers published almost 20,000 papers on topics related to AI. However, five countries contributed close to 90% of the total output.

May Anthropic uphold the same moral standards when the U.S. government uses its AI technology to surveil citizens of other countries. I hope they pass the international surveillance test just as they seek to protect domestic sovereignty. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

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"The technology development cycle in Germany is a slog of around four to four-and-a-half years, where ideas are bogged down in endless internal debate and commercial negotiations with suppliers."

"The Deloitte report contained false citations, pulled from made-up academic papers to draw conclusions for cost-effectiveness analyses, and cited real researchers on papers they hadn’t worked on, the Independent found." fortune.com/2025/11/25/d...

Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune

In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.

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I’m thrilled to announce I’ve joined the newly formed SAIGE Council from @partnershipai.bsky.social, a multi-stakeholder community addressing the most important and difficult questions concerning the future of AI.

From the @thecontinent.org: "...the children appeared to be victims of a systematic recruitment operation that manipulated them into posting political slogans, insults directed at the Egyptian President, calls to open Gaza’s Rafah crossing..."

"...the problem has proved beyond the algorithms. We know surprisingly little about our own biology. There are many mysteries in how our cells interact and challenges in measuring our body’s most crucial processes, starving models of the data they need to make more rapid progress." on.ft.com/4pgIyqT

Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs?

[FREE TO READ] A generation of start-ups have failed to live up to the hype. Executives are now betting that more powerful tools will crack the complexities of human biology

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“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack. You still won’t be able to eliminate dependencies and vulnerabilities on foreign states.” restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech

As countries pursue self-sufficiency in AI, they risk depending on foreign companies, undermining their independence and their goals.

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"The ICT sector rose an annual 21.3% in the second quarter driven by DATA USAGE, said Iddrisu, helping the services industry to expand 9.9% from a revised 7.8% in the prior three months."

"...the process of getting a job has become a late-capitalist nightmare. Online hiring platforms have made it easier to find an opening but harder to secure one.." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"For SMEs, double-digit loan rates have made credit costly, while freelancers—some of whom rely on foreign contracts—have been squeezed by a slowdown in overseas deals that has eroded their incomes amid rising living costs." techcabal.com/2025/08/29/n...

Why Nairobi’s co-working spaces are losing to restaurants

Nairobi’s co-working spaces were touted as temples of Kenya’s innovation economy where young founders could incubate groundbreaking ideas.

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we at @aial.ie, are investigating amplification/censorship on X/twitter in EU. what are major EU: -politicians & regulators -journalists -influencers & public intellectuals, with high visibility/influence on X, across both left & right political ideologies we're interested in existing datasets too

"What is missing is a preventive, policy-driven architecture that ensures content moderation practices are humane, companies are accountable for their algorithms, and corporate actors cannot hide behind layers of subcontracting to escape responsibility." blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...

Three lawsuits against Meta in Kenya expose the digital governance gap in Africa - Africa at LSE

The internet giant Meta is facing legal challenges that could change the way we think about legal jurisdiction and corporate responsibility in the digital age, writes Mumbi Kiragu. Kenya has emerged a...

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If I can give you any advice about anything it would be this - do everything in your power to protect yourself from being governed by people who hate you.

"But the war for talent is not just about output — it’s about perception. A start-up’s ability to attract investors and a listed company’s ability to keep its stock price up are both aided by the buzz generated by a few superstar minds." www.ft.com/content/9e9f...

What’s behind the AI talent gold rush?

Eye-watering payments show how hard it is for tech companies to build a competitive moat

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New publication alert! The Challenges of Accountability in AI for Immigration: The IRCC and Canadian AI Governance balsilliecases.ca/case-study/t...

Starlink's expansion across markets in Africa and other Global South countries have raised concerns about digital exclusion - high prices and more users within high-income communities, but there are much bigger regulatory and geopolitical implications we might be underestimating.

"The group said it would strike the overseas deals in co-ordination with the US government." www.ft.com/content/060c...

OpenAI plans Stargate expansion outside US

Global spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure with partners is expected to be ‘above and beyond’ $500bn target at home

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Countries in the Global South and poorer communities should not be treated as experimental labs for testing AI’s potential - to solve socio-economic challenges.

One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that. LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.

For the love of God, I am tired of hearing tech optimists in Africa saying "AI is going to take away jobs in Africa". Read more about the technological and political culture of Africa.

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and says `` shut up please '' .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and says `` shut up please '' .

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"Half of the fund will come from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Japanese government’s overseas development assistance arm, with the remainder covered by a matching sum from the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority." www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

Nigeria readies $40M startup seed fund backed by Japan

The government is stepping in to boost support for early-stage ventures.

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"From experience, we know that current training programs for fieldwork and data collection in the Global North do not necessarily reflect the complex positionalities of Global South researchers." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

If African governments do not invest in building the infrastructure needed to leverage AI, the “AI Messiahs” who sing “AI will solve all of Africa’s problems” will continue to shape the future of AI in Africa www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Paradox of Africa’s Autonomy in Shaping its AI Future - LCFI

This blog was written by Kofi Yeboah, a former CFI Visitor. In it, Kofi contends that the notion of Africa making significant progress and controlling its own AI future is overly optimistic. Instead, ...

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