Edgy update of Waiting for Godot: Vladimir and Estragon are NeurIPS authors waiting for any reviewer to respond to their rebuttals.

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

I'm just now reading @randomwalker.bsky.social's writeup of his ICML keynote. It is very insightful. Everyone thinking about the future of work in the age of AI should read this. www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...

What will be left for us to work on?

My keynote at ICML 2026

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I recommend this article about AI reasoning, where the author lets us in on his struggles w/ AI cognitive dissonance. Plus some priceless quotes from @rao2z.bsky.social. (My recommendation has *nothing* to do with the fact that I'm quoted in it too 😇) www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

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Yet another way to jailbreak LLMs: When asking them for forbidden information, make them think the request is part of their chain-of-thought: arxiv.org/abs/2603.12277

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

LLMs see the world as a single stream of text, partitioned into roles like <user> or <tool>. We trace prompt injection to role confusion: models perceive the source of text from how it sounds, not its...

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Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

The ultimate tldr on the OpenAI "rogue model" hacking incident 😅 (h/t @linege1 on X) But it would be useful to know the prompts OpenAI gave to the model....

Fascinating article. Next, someone please explain why AI agents love to generate "rm -rf *"

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 3w ago

I set out to understand why AIs love negative parallelism. The answer wasn't just surprising—it was illuminating. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Large language models represent a shift from rigid statistical frequency tables to neural networks that learn the probability distributions of… Large Language Models by Melanie Mitchell https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2bb20e3c #CognitiveScience

Why is Google AI Overview still so incredibly bad??

Such a lovely piece for Father’s day (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/o...

Opinion | To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated

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I agree with this essay: open source, for general software and for AI, has been and will be a net win for society. Kudos to @natolambert.bsky.social for being such an eloquent advocate. www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

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@author-calnewport.bsky.social does a fantastic job writing about AI, and this one is his best yet. Gift link in quoted post.

Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

"Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

Opinion | Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop

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I read the two part version when it came out — it was very accessible, well-written, and gave me a better understanding of issues around LLMs ⬇️

Raphaël Millière@raphaelmilliere.com · 2mo ago

Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.

Hey everyone: this is important: please take a few minutes to post a comment objecting to this brazen attempt by #Trump administration to politicize ALL science: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...

Melanie Mitchell: What We Get Wrong About AI

Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.

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Just discovered this Irish TV documentary about the Bothy Band, an incredible traditional Irish music group that I listened to avidly in the 1980s, and who reunited (maybe for this documentary)? Anyway, if you love this kind of music, it's 90 minutes of pure pleasure. www.tg4.ie/ga/player/ca...,

An Bothy Band | Seinnteoir | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile

Tá The Bothy Band, an banna ceoil thraidisiúnta is iomráití in Éirinn, ar ais in éineacht do chlár faisnéise speisialta. I 1974 a tháinig an banna ar an bhfód agus cé nach raibh siad baileach cúig bli...

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It's always a treat to read Ted Chiang's thoughts on AI. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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“If a machine can defeat the best of our species at chess, ‘a domain that humans have viewed as sacrosanct, something that is quintessentially possessed by human intelligence,’ then what human endeavor is safe?” -- Washington Post, 1997

Do LLMs *understand* language? Do educational AI agents *understand* the material they teach (or their students)? Claims about what AI systems do or don't understand are pervasive, but assessing them requires an account of MACHINE UNDERSTANDING

Another excellent post (from @sayash.bsky.social and @randomwalker.bsky.social) on questions to ask about announcements of AI capabilities. I highly recommend their newsletter! www.normaltech.ai/p/did-google...

Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?

The importance of independent evaluation

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I'm not sure what to think about the new AI math results, but I found this perspective by Erik Hoel interesting: www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/dumbo-coul...

Dumbo Could Already Fly

100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems

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"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Progression without progress

Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...

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Excellent analysis of how to think about AI as a social technology (rather than as an individual intelligent agent)

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 3mo ago

knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... Now up at @knightcolumbia.org - Cosma Shalizi and myself on "AI as Social Technology." It says that AI models are really a technology of social mediation that allow humans to connect with thoughts of other humans. Short-ish thread with major points follows.

Always flattering to get email from people who absolutely, definitely read my book

Excellent thread "We risk all of science if we rush to build 'AI Scientists' before we understand the value of human science." ⬇️

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

@mjcrockett.bsky.social is totally killing it (pun intended) in talk about DEAD cognitive benchmarks. DEAD = Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized, Disembodied Super insightful talk at @sfiscience.bsky.social 's annual Science Symposium.

As part of SFI’s broader Nature of Intelligence project, a recent working group explored AGI, or artificial general intelligence, from the perspective of cognitive science, asking how current definitions of AGI overlap with how researchers understand natural intelligence.

Looking at AGI through the lens of natural intelligence

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks fit together, as well as physically interact with and intervene in the real ...

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