How do LLMs respond to questions about the election? MIT researchers ran a 4-month study, querying 12 state-of-the-art models on over 12K prompts daily. They found that the models can reinforce certain political narratives, mislead, or even exhibit manipulative tendencies:
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AI and Insurance: From Solidarity to Individualized Pricing
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In Europe, insurance is based on solidarity. With AI, we are shifting towards real-time individualized pricing. My latest article co-written with
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Stop AI Capability Escalation to Prevent Human Extinction
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The thing I advocate is to stop escalating AI capabilities, not to "go carefully" around them. If you very carefully build something vastly smarter than humanity, using anything remotely like current methods and understanding, everyone dies.
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Youth Co-optation in Tech Revolutions and Identity Seeking
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Kids looking for identity/belonging and co-opted revolutions happen every cycle
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UN Security Council Addresses AI Resource Inequality and Global Access
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“When only a few have the resources to build and benefit from AI, we leave the rest of the world waiting at the door,” said @StanfordHAI Senior Fellow @YejinChoinka during her address to the @UN Security Council. Read her full speech here: https://
hai.stanford.edu/policy/yejin-c
hois-briefing-to-the-united-nations-security-council
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Extended Thinking Feature Slows Down User Experience
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Then she realizes “Extended Thinking” is on, and now it’s a two-minute wait to learn her favorite TV show. pic.twitter.com/6A7Q9MmROX
— Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) 24 septembre 2025Then she realizes “Extended Thinking” is on, and now it’s a two-minute wait to learn her favorite TV show.
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Data Centers and the Religious Fervor Around Super-Intelligence
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Given the quasi-religious way people think about super-intelligence, I keep wondering if today's incredible data-center build out might be comparable to the construction of cargo cults.
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Algorithmic feeds harm culture and drive mindless consumption
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Tailored algorithms for social media feeds have been a net negative for our culture. Sure it keeps things interesting, but it is keeping us from discovering new things, new ideas, new thoughts. It has created us all to be mindlessly scrolling hitting that dopamine hit.
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Model Limitations: Why AI Cannot Generate Ungrounded Content
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That would be a model that couldn't answer the prompt "write me a story where a walrus teaches me the basic ideas of particle physics" Because a Walrus never said those things!
