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Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
After Elon Musk posted on X saying he had throttled Ukraine’s use of Starlink after it was used for offensive attacks, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) says the billionaire’s ability to wield that power is “beyond disturbing to me.”
“It cannot and should not be the case that a tech oligarch, a private citizen, who has that much control over our national security, who is unaccountable, who is unelected, with zero transparency, is making life and death decisions on the battlefield in systems that our service members and our partners and allies rely upon,” he adds.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile!
In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few extreme influencers:
-Reduced partisan animosity by 24%
-Increased satisfaction with Twitter/X
-Led people to share higher-quality news
Effects persisting for 6+ months and most people choose not to refollow the influencers after the study was over.
Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ac…
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
I have no idea what is happening with Starlink or who is making what decisions, but the DoW’s argument against Anthropic was that a private firm couldn’t be allowed to dictate or compromise U.S. policy or the government’s sovereign control over policy and relevant capabilities.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
Just read a recommendation letter from the main advisor of a very promising job market candidate that was 100 percent AI generated according to Pangram.
Don’t do this!!
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
A very useful report on how AI is affecting student learning at MIT.
I like this term cognitive surrender, "where students fall back on AI at the first hint of struggle."
We need to encourage undergrads (and all humans) to recognize this pattern and resist it.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
If Dario and Sam really wanted to slow down the pace of AI, they would move their research to a university.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
One of the biggest mistakes in math education has been the move away from practice and memorization. We're told memorization works against understanding. It's usually the opposite.
The more foundational knowledge students can retrieve automatically, the more working memory they have available to think about complex mathematics.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
As a statistician, I keep asking myself how all these AI people are dealing with the massive potential for catastrophic errors in critical analyses, and the answer keeps being they either didn't think about it at all, or they don't care.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
Before saying “duh”/“that’s not surprising” to a study, remember science is not meant to surprise you.
It’s shocking how many (supposedly) very sophisticated people don’t seem to realize this!
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
Okay so, we just found that over 50 papers published at @Neurips 2025 have AI hallucinations
I don't think people realize how bad the slop is right now
It's not just that researchers from @GoogleDeepMind, @Meta, @MIT, @Cambridge_Uni are using AI - they allowed LLMs to generate hallucinations in their papers and didn't notice at all.
It's insane that these made it through peer review👇
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
This is the strongest piece of evidence yet that AI isn't going to take all our jobs.
In the coming weeks, we plan to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers.
We’re sharing our principles early on how we’ll approach ads–guided by putting user trust and transparency first as we work to make AI accessible to everyone.
What matters most:
- Responses in ChatGPT will not be influenced by ads.
- Ads are always separate and clearly labeled.
- Your conversations are private from advertisers.
- Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers will not have ads.
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
IMO it should be considered quite rude in most contexts to post or send someone a wall of 100% AI-generated text. “Here, read this thing I didn’t care enough about to express myself.”
Kevin P. Taylor retweeted
🎂 ChatGPT turned 3 years old. Here's where we are now:
- It still hallucinates
- Children can still access it freely
- 'Companionship' use is on the rise
- It has weak guardrails against mental health harm
- It amplified dozens of mental health crises, a few of which led to suicide
- It has weak controls against usage policy violations
- There is no meaningful scrutiny over its safety practices or model specs
- It is under little to no regulatory oversight in most parts of the world
- It has led to a wave of synthetic content online, including deepfakes
- It often creates an illusion of learning (the student is consuming a summary)
- It has agentic features that might lead to privacy and security vulnerabilities
- It hasn't led to meaningful scientific breakthroughs
Everybody wants "AI for societal good," but maybe we have to rethink the route to get there.
Also, there is currently a lot of focus on general-purpose AI systems (such as general-purpose AI chatbots), and it looks like more distraction (and harm) is coming from them than any positive breakthroughs.
Hopefully, 2026 will start with fresh trends.