Iotas

Brief notes on what’s caught our team’s attention.

“It’s theater”

Identifying problems as “system” rather than “individual”

Building off of Melanie Mitchell’s post

Everyone! This is a straw-person argument.

X (@MelMitchell1)

Huang voices a common frustration for systems folks.

The New York Times

Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed

Humanist AI in practice: A public consultation on our Code of Conduct for MAI Models

Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus

“To use an LLM to write is to void the social contract…”

The Observation Deck

Ideas that are an awkward fit anywhere else

Monkey’s Uncle

Chat Isn’t Always the Answer

Google Developers Blog

Happy little accidents

Many critiques of AI remain rooted in the pre-agentic era. It is past time to update your priors!

AI can be a lever for human agency.

The New York Times

This points to an interesting gap in benchmarks.

X (@YekyungKim)

LLMs are role-playing

“large organizations do not know what they know…”

Knight First Amendment Institute

“AI is a bad writer, but that’s not even close…”

Numb at the Lodge

This piece is brilliant throughout…

Strong agree…

You hear a lot about forward deployed engineers nowadays…