Weekly Review 12 September 2025

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):

1. A comparison of some AI educational tools: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/09/03/ai-companies-roll-out-educational-tools
2. Australian lawyer sanctioned after using AI to write a court submission: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep/03/lawyer-caught-using-ai-generated-false-citations-in-court-case-penalised-in-australian-first
3. Hiding AI prompt injection attacks in compressed images: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/researchers-find-hackers-can-hide-ai-prompt-attacks-in-compressed-images
4. Using AI to detect signs of consciousness in coma patients: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/01/seeme-ai-consciousness-detection/
5. Flagging dodgy journals with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/31/ai_spies_questionable_science_journals/
6. Impersonating a chatbot that's impersonating a person or how human operators need to back-up AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-a-chatbot-my-life-as-a-real-estate-ais-human-backup
7. AI is another tool in the attacker's toolbox: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4048415/the-ai-powered-cyberattack-era-is-here.html
8. Even if it's an AI server, you still need to secure it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/exposed_ollama_servers_insecure_research/
9. AI code generators speed software production but you still need programmers to sort out the code they produce: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/02/ai-boosts-developer-productivity-human-oversight-still-needed/
10. AI is just another tool being used by scammers. When will platforms like Meta actually put a stop to the scammers? Is Meta making money from them? https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360810721/35k-month-guaranteed-fake-luxon-video-targeting-kiwis
11. How much will this AI data centre boost India's carbon emissions? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-stargate-india-data-centre/
12. When you deploy immature AI technology, the results can be frustrating and hilarious: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/30/taco-bell-is-having-second-thoughts-about-relying-on-ai-at-the-drive-through/
13. Wouldn't it be better to build your AI so it doesn't tell people to end themselves? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/571864/chatgpt-to-get-parental-controls-after-teen-s-death
14. How CIO need to prepare for AGI: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/it-leadership-takes-on-agi
15. Doesn't matter how much computing power you have, if you don't know what you're doing it won't give you a good AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/tesla-dojo-the-rise-and-fall-of-elon-musks-ai-supercomputer/
16. When the AI bubble bursts it's going to hurt the data centre operators: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/goldman_sachs_ai_datacenters/
17. Now Wordpress is getting and AI website construction tool: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-shows-off-telex-its-experimental-ai-development-tool/
18. I suspect there are other AI companies that would be more desirable to deal with than Palantir: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/coventry-city-council-signs-ai-deal-contract-palantir-technologies
19. Researchers have identified 32 distinct AI dysfunctions, that resemble human psychiatric disorders: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/01/psychopathia-machinalis-artificial-sanity-research/
20. Bring AI into home automation. Why not, they've shoveled it into everything else. https://www.theverge.com/ifa-berlin/768739/ai-could-bring-us-a-smarter-home-ifa-2025
21. Security flaws affect AI-enabled software just as much as any other kind of software: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/google-warns-that-mass-data-theft-hitting-salesloft-ai-agent-has-grown-bigger/
22. AI companies are putting more and more money into buying politicians: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/02/ai-industry-pours-millions-into-politics
23. The AI certifications industry is looking for: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4049928/top-ai-certifications-that-will-get-you-hired-and-promoted.html
24. We're moving into a trough of disillusionment over AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-5-trough-of-disillusionment
25. AI recruitment tools lead to the use of AI interview tools with candidates giving AI generated answers: https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/360808454/strange-behaviour-being-observed-job-interviews-its-sign-times
26. Time to start preparing for the AI bubble bursting: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4050041/how-to-prepare-for-an-ai-bubble-burst.html
27. AI is just another tool to be used by misogynists: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/fuelling-sexism-ai-bikini-interview-videos-flood-internet/HHMCD353JJBOFPMC3MTVD4OUH4/
28. Is calling an AI "clanker" really a slur? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/01/clanker-slur-against-robots-all-over-internet-is-it-offensive
29. Job carnage at Salesforce thanks to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/salesforce_4000_jobs_ai/