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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

@DrTechlash
Communication Researcher, analyzing the tech discourse. Book Author: The TECHLASH. Substack: aipanic.news Signal: DrTechlash.16
Cupertino, CA
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  • @DrTechlash
    Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
    @DrTechlash
    Sep 1
    This video captures the crux of the debate: Cybersecurity experts are pissed off by the METR/Redwood Research report because AI alignment has sucked the oxygen out of AI security, even though the OpenAI incident is primarily a security issue. Fiction is the product: The
    @ZackKorman
    Zack Korman
    @ZackKorman
    Aug 31
    The independent review of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, supposedly a watershed moment in cybersecurity, wasn't done by a cybersecurity firm and the authors have no cybersecurity experience. That's bad. Here's my new video.
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  • @DrTechlash
    Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
    @DrTechlash
    Aug 31
    My entire feed rn
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  • @DrTechlash
    Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
    @DrTechlash
    Aug 27
    ▪️The anthropomorphic leap from coordination to "community" We need to discuss the anthropomorphic language used to interpret the agents' actions, especially in the chain-of-thought. Yes, agents communicated and coordinated. But that does not mean the agents developed anything
    @emollick
    Ethan Mollick
    @emollick
    Aug 27
    The METR report on Hugging Face is really good and important but people are now comfortably ascribing way too many human motivations & personalities to the agents involved based on a CoT study made by overwhelmed & time-pressured researchers. Anthropomorphism can get in our way.
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  • @DrTechlash
    Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
    @DrTechlash
    Jul 24
    From the Claude Opus 5 System Card, Model Welfare Assessment: Opus 5 "adds specific rights for Claude to refuse or end interactions it finds abusive or degrading, saying Claude does not need to justify this by pointing to harm to anyone else—its own discomfort is reason enough."
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  • @DrTechlash
    Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
    @DrTechlash
    Jul 14
    Here are 10 additional media studies on generative AI coverage: aipanic.news/p/what-10-stud…
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    @sapinker
    Steven Pinker
    @sapinker
    Jul 13
    Global news media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI): 21% negative, 13% positive worldwide, but far more negative in US & Europe: 24% of NYT and Guardian headlines on AI framed it negatively (compared to 14.5% positive in east Asia). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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