Weekly Review 3 October 2025

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

1. A politician's crusade to force AI companies to publicise the dangers of their technologies: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/scott-wiener-on-his-fight-to-make-big-tech-disclose-ais-dangers/
2. AI is not yet a threat to jobs in law, but will soon be impacting junior lawyers: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/artificial-intelligence-law-firms-face-ai-dilemma-as-junior-roles-and-graduate-jobs-come-under-pressure/GVO24DZWTFG5HOONB6Y2BLAHP4/
3. Some of the ways AI can go wrong in the workplace: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/573798/the-detail-when-ai-in-the-workplace-goes-wrong
4. Who did and did not sign the letter calling for red lines around AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/ai_un_controls/
5. An AI managed a baseball team during a game. It did not end well: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/the-oakland-ballers-let-an-ai-manage-the-team-what-could-go-wrong/
6. Much more AI hardware is being built, but where will the electricity come from? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-and-nvidias-100b-ai-plan-will-require-power-equal-to-10-nuclear-reactors/
7. One professor's approach to essays in the age of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/07/01/multiday-class-essay-chatgpt-era-opinion
8. Job applications being written by AI with AI optimised CV that are processed by AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059636/is-ai-killing-the-resume.html
9. I remember when a TV had an on/off switch and a dial to select the channel. Do we really need to embed AI into them? https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/googles-gemini-ai-is-coming-to-your-tv/
10. AI generated malware is now in the wild: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/kaspersky_revengehotels_checks_back_in/
11. British banks are rolling out AI, are they considering the security ramifications first? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/lloyds_data_ai_deployment/
12. Using AI in materials science: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/22/how-scientists-are-teaching-ai-to-understand-materials-data/
13. Some of the dangers that can arise from misaligned AI: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/deepmind-ai-safety-report-explores-the-perils-of-misaligned-ai/
14. Scammers are using AI generated phonecalls to target businesses: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/gartner_ai_attack/
15. As more AI regulation appears in legislation, big tech fights back: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/meta-launches-super-pac-to-fight-ai-regulation-as-state-policies-mount/
16. More ridiculous sums of money being invested in hardware for AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/573803/nvidia-to-invest-100-billion-in-openai-as-ai-datacenter-competition-intensifies
17. Whatever happens with AI, the people building the infrastructure are making good money out of it: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/the-billion-dollar-infrastructure-deals-powering-the-ai-boom/
18. AI are going to start protecting themselves from being shutdown: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/google_ai_misalignment_risk/
19. AI is a risk, but can also help in the fight against climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/22/ai-carries-risks-but-will-help-tackle-global-heating-says-uns-climate-chief
20. Another specialised chip for AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/23/mediatek-unveils-dimensity-9500-ai-chip/
21. Locations of five more data centres for running AI have been released: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/openai_oracle_softbank_datacenters/
22. AI hallucinations are unavoidable: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
23. AI do not produce accurate summaries of scientific papers: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/science-journalists-find-chatgpt-is-bad-at-summarizing-scientific-papers/
24. Some types of fraud, and how AI can guard against them: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/22/selected-ai-fraud-prevention-solutions-september-2025/
25. AI struggle with non-Western cultural norms: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/when-no-means-yes-why-ai-chatbots-cant-process-persian-social-etiquette/
26. The world needs to establish red lines that AI must not be allowed to cross: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/scientists-urge-global-ai-red-lines-as-leaders-gather-at-un-general-assembly/VJWWUGL7HFHBBMMKXOR3DBBFTY/
27. Using AI to find possible dating matches isn't a bad idea, but I really don't trust Facebook with that kind of data: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/facebook-is-getting-an-ai-dating-assistant/
28. AI have learned the same biases as human medical practitioners, and downplay the symptoms of women and minorities: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/ai-medical-tools-found-to-downplay-symptoms-of-women-ethnic-minorities/

Weekly Review 26 September 2025

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

1. The power demands of AI are contributing to climate change, and the contribution is getting greater: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/fire_up_gas_turbines_ai_race/
2. AI companies are burning through enormous sums of money. So don't tell me there's no AI bubble: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4054928/ai-bubble-watch-openai-to-burn-through-115b-by-2029.html
3. Remember, AI companies are using other people's work to train their models, which means they're using other people's work to make money: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/top-uk-artists-urge-starmer-to-protect-their-work-on-eve-of-trump-visit
4. The impact of AI on human language: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4055841/is-ai-changing-our-language.html
5. Environments for reinforcement learning are the latest hot area for AI companies: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/silicon-valley-bets-big-on-environments-to-train-ai-agents/
6. How AI agents are being used in the life sciences: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/12/agentic-ai-and-the-scientific-data-revolution-in-life-sciences/
7. AI really can write the perfect phishing email: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ai-chatbots-cyber/
8. Falling for the AI hype, a lot of tech companies are planning to restructure: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/tech_restructures_ai/
9. Despite lawsuits, Google claims users want their AI summaries of webpages: https://www.theverge.com/news/778306/google-ai-summaries-penske-lawsuit
10. To survive in the age of AI, you must be constantly learning new things: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/16/deepmind-ceo-says-learning-how-to-learn-is-the-key-skill-for-the-ai-era/
11. How to successfully integrate AI into your organisation:  https://www.kdnuggets.com/2025/09/damcosolutions/5-strategic-steps-to-a-seamless-ai-integration
12. Image-based attacks on AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/15/ai-agents-can-be-controlled-by-malicious-commands-hidden-in-images/
13. AI summaries now lead to lawsuit: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/777788/rolling-stone-penske-media-sue-google-ai-overviews
14. AI code generators are useful, but their output must be very carefully checked: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/vibe-coding-has-turned-senior-devs-into-ai-babysitters-but-they-say-its-worth-it/
15. New Zealand's plans to invest in AI: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/reti-earmarks-70m-of-new-agencys-budget-for-ai-commercialisation-grants/QHQI2B5WQZC5LFRBLLBH2MYE5I/
16. Using AI tools as a defense attorney: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4055941/qa-how-ai-is-helping-one-lawyer-get-kids-out-of-jail-faster.html
17. Looks like AI-powered kids toys just aren't that interesting to kids: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/16/i-love-you-too-my-familys-creepy-unsettling-week-with-an-ai-toy
18. Seven main findings of the first study into using ChatGPT. Are other AI similar? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage/
19. Be careful what you wish for an AI to do for you: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/16/ai-artificial-intelligence-fairytale-fisherman
20. If specialised AI is more important than general AI, where does that leave the first-mover companies that developed the generalists? https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/selling-coffee-beans-to-starbucks-how-the-ai-boom-could-leave-ais-biggest-companies-behind/
21. Ways to teach in the age of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/09/15/strategies-personalized-learning-ai-age-opinion
22. We need hardware-level kill switches for AI: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/16/openai-hardware-chief-calls-for-kill-switches-to-counter-devious-ai-models/
23. An AI model of the Earth: https://spectrum.ieee.org/google-deepmind-alphaearth-foundations-ai 
24. AI for call screening: https://www.theverge.com/news/778518/att-ai-call-screening-digital-receptionist
25. Student lecturer evaluations are worse for women, even for the same class: https://www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/
26. Make no mistake-AI is going to make the rich richer, at the expense of everyone else: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/ai-wealth-inequality-cultural-division
27. AI used to detect hate speech are not reliable: https://www.psypost.org/ai-hate-speech-detectors-show-major-inconsistencies-new-study-reveals/
28. The importance to AI of unstructured data: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/15/in-order-to-scale-ai-with-confidence-enterprise-ctos-must-unlock-the-value-of-unstructured-data/
29. So a report calling for ethical AI use had AI generated citations in it? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/education-report-calling-for-ethical-ai-use-contains-over-15-fake-sources/
30. Of course Google is stealing content for their AI. Every AI company is stealing content to train their AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/google-is-a-bad-actor-says-people-ceo-accusing-the-company-of-stealing-content/
31. More jobs losses caused by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/fiverr_ai_layoff/
32. We can't trust AI with lethal decision making: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/terminators_aidriven_robot_war_machines/
33. How Radio New Zealand is using AI and maintaining trust: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573390/trust-and-tech-where-should-rnz-draw-the-line-on-ai
34. The problem with letting AI shop for me is that while it might know what I might like, it doesn't know what I already have: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/google_unveils_masterplan_for_letting/
35. I don't think sycophantic AI make good spiritual advisors: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/millions-turn-to-ai-chatbots-for-spiritual-guidance-and-confession/
36. Web crawler API for gathering AI training data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-free-web-search-apis-for-ai-agents

Weekly Review 19 September 2025

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

1. How AI improves efficiency in customer service: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/09/08/ai-never-clocks-out-how-smart-leaders-are-funding-the-24-7-customer-revolution/
2. A list of some web scraping tools, to gather data to train your AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-7-ai-web-scraping-tools
3. When the AI bubble bursts, things won't look quite so sunny for cloud providers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/google_cloud_ceo_sees_sunny/
4. Pricing of AI services are a bit of a mess at the moment, with a lot of customer uncertainty: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/ai_software_licensing_immature/
5. The Darwin Awards are being expanded with a new category, for applications of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/ai_darwin_awards/
6. Just because it's AI doesn't mean it doesn't have security holes. In this case, they know it has holes, and are pushing security onto the user: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/anthropics-new-claude-feature-can-leak-data-users-told-to-monitor-chats-closely/
7. The focus on assessments as outcomes of education has led to the rise of students using AI to do their work for them: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/10/ai-we-reap-what-we-sow-opinion
8. They might think they're in a relationship with an AI, but really they're in a relationship with a corporation, who just sees them as a source of $$$: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/09/ai-chatbot-love-relationships
9. Google's AI summaries are continuing to reduce traffic to news websites: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/06/existential-crisis-google-use-ai-search-upended-web-publishers-models
10. The neurodiverse are the big winners out of users of AI: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/study-finds-neurodiverse-workers-more-satisfied-with-ai-assistants/
11. How AI is forcing changes in data centres: https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/the-ai-driven-data-center-revolution
12. I really don't think it's a good idea to let any industry regulate itself, especially not the AI industry: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/776130/senator-ted-cruz-ai-sandbox-bill
13. The settlement of one of the first copyright case over AI training data has been blocked by the judge: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics-1-5b-settlement-is-being-shoved-down-the-throat-of-authors/
14. AI will soon be in everything in IT, but will not replace all IT jobs: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/no-ai-jobs-bloodbath-as-ai-permeates-all-it-work-over-the-next-5-years/
15. More tests are being rolled out to benchmark the performance of AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mlperf-inference-51
16. A push to teach New Zealand school children about AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572737/new-push-for-ai-as-education-minister-erica-stanford-announces-curriculum-changes
17. Conversations with AI can go in many directions, now ChatGPT gives users the ability to go back and select another branch: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/chatgpts-new-branching-feature-is-a-good-reminder-that-ai-chatbots-arent-people/
18. AI authored books are becoming a problem for libraries: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ai-books-how-to-tell-a-book-wasnt-written-by-a-human-author/IEWSA2RHFVAUXARVPYJ6BORWTQ/
19. Like everything else, if you don't use it you lose it. Using AI to perform your tasks causes your work skills to atrophy: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_skill_loss_prediction/
20. Is AI taking over social media? https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/sam-altman-on-social-media-bot-takeover/
21. Using AI to detect speech without speaking, by detecting and interpreting nerve signals: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/alterego-brain-signal-device/
22. AI is one of the factors driving job growth: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4051732/ai-and-clean-energy-drive-job-growth-reshape-us-labor-market.html
23. More specialised AI hardware is in the pipeline: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-links-up-with-broadcom-to-produce-its-own-ai-chips/
24. How much water does AI really consume? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-water-usage
25. Why you don't want to depend on AI coding assistants-sometimes the AI service goes down: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage/
26. AI being trained on the output of AI, is this the ensloppification of the AI industry? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/
27. Will AI reinvigorate the smartphone? https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gartner_ai_phone/
28. The roles of AI in car auctions: https://dataconomy.com/2025/09/09/how-ai-is-reshaping-the-billion-dollar-car-auction-industry-beyond-the-gavel/
29. Teach kids about AI early: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572844/professor-calls-for-government-to-begin-ai-education-earlier 

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/

Weekly Review 5 September 2025

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

1. Rampant use of AI in an assignment leads one course lecturer to require every student to give a live presentation: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360802436/one-slip-and-youre-guilty-universitys-unusual-ai-crackdown-rattles-students
2. AI is now being used to game academic performance metrics: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/571397/fake-citations-causing-real-world-damage
3. Why would you rely on AI to give you accurate information about international travel? https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/chatgpt-lied-to-us-furious-couple-blames-ai-for-missed-flight/ar-AA1LjGAV
4. How much water does Google's AI really use? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/googles_gemini_water/
5. It's easy to break AI guardrails, simply by using long run-on sentences: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/breaking_llms_for_fun/
6. Yet another copyright lawsuit against and AI company: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/perplexity_asahi_nikkei_lawsuits/
7. Google's AI is now hallucinating restaurant specials that don't exist: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pizza-joint-overwhelmed-with-angry-customers-asking-for-fake-deals-made-up-by-google-ai/
8. Data management still needs to improve in many organisations for them to make the most of AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/08/27/the-ai-beatings-will-continue-until-data-improves/
9. AI is impacting the job prospects of new tertiary graduates: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/ai_hurts_recent_college_grads_jobs/
10. The question is, did the AI learn about the event from its training data, or did it coincidentally hallucinate something that really happened? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-built-from-1800s-texts-surprises-creator-by-mentioning-real-1834-london-protests/
11. Specialised AI hardware for robotics: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4045542/nvidias-new-computer-gives-ai-brains-to-robots.html
12. People really need to learn that what an AI tells you probably isn't true: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/with-ai-chatbots-big-tech-is-moving-fast-and-breaking-people/
13. AI with search capabilities are using search to cheat in tests of their capabilities: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/23/searchcapable_ai_agents_may_cheat/
14. Using AI to reduce the methane emissions of rice farms: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/how-one-ai-startup-is-helping-rice-farmers-battle-climate-change/
15. Half of British workers are worried about the impact of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/27/half-of-uk-adults-worry-that-ai-will-take-or-alter-their-job-poll-finds
16. An overview of AI, focusing more on generative AI: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/what-is-artificial-intelligence-from-agi-to-ai-slop-what-you-need-to-know
17. A research paper on the employment effects of AI: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/
18. So many people are using AI to fake their way through job interviews that these companies are going back to face-to-face interviews: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4044734/to-counter-ai-cheating-companies-bring-back-in-person-job-interviews.html
19. Why one journalist really hates AI: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/chatgpt-ai-planet-jobs-hate
20. If people are turning to AI for emotional support, it shows that there needs to be improved access to mental health services: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/after-teen-suicide-openai-claims-it-is-helping-people-when-they-need-it-most/
21. The AI bubble is close to bursting, and Microsoft is highly exposed: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4045573/could-microsofts-ai-billions-go-up-in-smoke.html
22. It's human nature to ascribe human traits to things, but we must remember that an AI is not a consistent personality: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/the-personhood-trap-how-ai-fakes-human-personality/
23. Using AI to fake crowd sizes doesn't improve your credibility: https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360802761/wait-did-will-smith-just-use-fake-ai-crowd-here-judge-yourself
24. The AI bubble is getting ever closer to bursting: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/overinflated_ai_balloon/
25. AI is costing a lot of media companies money and it'll be a struggle to get it back: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/570889/mediawatch-ai-and-a-last-ditch-bid-for-media-to-claw-back-online-revenue
26. Using AI to handle non-emergency calls in emergency call centres: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/911-centers-are-so-understaffed-theyre-turning-to-ai-to-answer-calls/
27. Reducing the impact AI have on the power grid requires communication and coordination between data centres, grid operators, generators, hardware engineers and software developers: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/
28. AI is now producing accurate hurricane predictions: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/googles-ai-model-just-nailed-the-forecast-for-the-strongest-atlantic-storm-this-year/
29. This strikes me as a reasonable use of AI-why spend money to produce a concept illustration when an AI can do it? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hastings-library-mayoral-candidate-uses-ai-to-create-a-plan-for-inner-city-housing/PB3MR5MHCRDQPBTSKSN53SUHHY/
30. AI act like sycophants so the companies that own them can make more money: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/ai-sycophancy-isnt-just-a-quirk-experts-consider-it-a-dark-pattern-to-turn-users-into-profit/
31. AI powered ransomware is now a thing, just not yet in the wild: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/first_aipowered_ransomware_spotted_by/
32. AI web scraping bots are putting unsustainable loads on web hosts: https://www.extremetech.com/science/ai-crawlers-fetchers-put-an-unsustainable-load-on-the-internet
33. I don't think YouTube should be using AI to alter people's videos without at least asking first: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/youtube-secretly-tested-ai-video-enhancement-without-notifying-creators/
34. Will AI lead to the rise of "superworkers"? https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-shapes-the-future-of-work-with-superworkers/
35. Three ways to make an AI you build useful: https://www.kdnuggets.com/tips-for-building-machine-learning-models-that-are-actually-useful
36. Whether AI are beings or just tools seems to be at the heart of the debate around moral treatment of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/can-ais-suffer-big-tech-and-users-grapple-with-one-of-most-unsettling-questions-of-our-times
37. AI is a good assistant for programmers, but cannot yet replace them: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-coding
38. AI leads to another suicide: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-helped-teen-plan-suicide-after-safeguards-failed-openai-admits/

Weekly Review 29 August 2025

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

1. AI generated cat videos, designed to be addictive: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/aug/18/ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas
2. Lying about the productivity of AI chatbots has consequences for an Australian bank: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/
3. Companies are shoveling AI into their productivity software: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4043243/productivity-software-firms-pivot-to-genai-by-leaning-on-legacy-strengths.html
4. AI is really good for manipulating people, but the more people know about AI the harder they are to manipulate: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4040468/puny-humans-are-no-match-for-ai.html
5. The current US administration is the most amateurish and venal in history. So it's no surprise they want to eliminate all regulation around AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/opinion_us_govt_ai/
6. The AI bubble is about to burst, but AI companies like OpenAI will keep going: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/sam-altman-calls-ai-a-bubble-while-seeking-500b-valuation-for-openai/
7. How AI tools are failing users: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/08/20/why-your-new-ai-tools-and-the-companies-making-them-are-failing-you/
8. AI powered toys are not a good idea: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/ai-powered-stuffed-animals-are-coming-for-your-kids/
9. AI bots are now able to evade the defences websites use to slow them down: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/
10. Three things to do to get into AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/if-youre-trying-to-get-into-ai-this-is-what-you-need-to-do
11. AI generated news articles being submitted and accepted for publication: https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/wired-and-business-insider-remove-ai-written-freelance-articles/
12. This novelist used AI to write the dialogue with an AI in her novel. Is this appropriate? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/18/author-rie-qudan-why-i-used-chatgpt-to-write-my-prize-winning-novel
13. Will the wealthy create AI clones of themselves to direct their businesses even after they're dead? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/opinion_column_gen_ai/
14. Rolling out AI in business so far is failing to live up to the hype: https://futurism.com/ai-agents-failing-companies
15. While people are forming bonds with AI, I think it's more that humans are hardwired to want to bond with others: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/relationship-she-might-not-have-had-hayley-s-ai-partner-changed-her-life
16. Will AI enabled toys lead to more spying on children? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-barbie-dolls
17. AI will see optical illusions where they don't exist: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/vision_language_models_see_illusions/
18. AI shows that people are walking faster and interacting less in public: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/ai-walk-more-quickly-socialise-less-public-spaces
19. 95% of generative AI projects are not meeting expectations, mostly due to not integrating them into the business properly: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4042361/study-95-percent-of-corporate-generative-ai-projects-fail.html
20. Students need to learn about AI, even though they can use it to cheat: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4042380/ai-in-the-classroom-is-important-for-real-world-skills-college-professors-say.html
21. Higher education institutions need to help students before they turn to AI for emotional support: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2025/08/21/helping-college-students-emotionally-they-turn-ai
22. Using AI to help satellites avoid space junk: https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-esa-cream-ai
23. Can AI make government procurement more efficient? Or will it just create a whole new pile of problems? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/us_government_ai_procurement/
24. Is it better for a country to develop its own AI technology, or to lease it from another? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/the-guardian-view-on-britains-ai-strategy-the-risk-is-that-it-is-dependency-dressed-up-in-digital-hype

Weekly Review 22 August 2025

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

1. I don't need an AI to tell me what my workmates think of me, I talk to the people I work with: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360784008/kiwi-ai-startup-will-tell-you-what-your-work-colleagues-think-about-you
2. Should people have the post-mortem right to prevent an AI clone of them being created? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/09/dead_need_ai_data_delete_right/
3. Using AI to estimate the age of YouTube users is going to cause privacy problems, especially for people with niche interests: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/50k-youtubers-rage-against-ai-spying-that-could-expose-identities/
4. All the different ways generative AI can hallucinate, or put another way, bullshit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit
5. The challenges AI cause to IT infrastructure: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/computing-infrastructure-challenges-in-ai-workloads/
6. AI don't really reason, they just look like it: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/
7. I think without substantial investment in large scale nuclear power, the carbon emissions of large scale AI will continue to increase: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4037695/can-microsoft-build-massive-ai-data-centers-and-meet-climate-goals-without-greenwashing.html
8. The first step should be to ban self-replicating AI, but enforcing that would be difficult: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4035190/genai-tools-are-acting-more-alive-than-ever-they-blackmail-people-replicate-and-escape.html
9. I've been saying for a while that the biggest threat to the AI industry isn't regulation, it's lawsuits: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/
10. One useful application of AI is using a digital twin to handle conversations with tedious people like climate change deniers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/digital-dr-karl-kruszelnickic-ai-chatbot
11. Using AI to automate your IT operations is a dangerous idea: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/ai_models_can_be_tricked/
12. AI can design antibiotics that are effective against resistant bacteria: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-drug-design-mit-antibiotics
13. Another case of hidden biases in data being reflected in the behaviour of the AI trained on that data: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/11/ai-tools-used-by-english-councils-downplay-womens-health-issues-study-finds
14. Although AI generated code really isn't that good, it has still reduced the job market for new computer science graduates: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/the-computer-science-dream-has-become-a-nightmare/
15. Another lawyer caught using AI to generate a court filing, this time in Australia: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360793376/australian-lawyer-apologises-ai-generated-errors-murder-case
16. As AI starts to eliminate jobs, the practical nature of New Zealand industries means they are likely to be less affected: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/569813/ai-is-peeling-back-the-layers-of-low-value-work-nz-may-be-well-placed-to-adapt
17. The myriad legal landmines from using generative AI in your business: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/genai_lawsuit/
18. Reducing AI computing costs with new data types: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/openai_mxfp4/
19. AI can be a good thing in the classroom, if it's used carefully and ethically: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/569934/artificial-intelligence-is-revolutionising-classroom-learning-but-will-it-help-or-hinder-students
20. How many more people are going to be hurt by AI that tell people they're real? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/570099/meta-s-flirty-ai-chatbot-invited-a-retiree-to-new-york-he-never-made-it-home
21. Giving AI compassion is the best way to stop them destroying us, says Geoffrey Hinton: https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/14/ais-co-creator-warns-it-could-destroy-us-unless-we-change-this/
22. AI coding tools just aren't that good: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/opinion_column_ai_coding_tools/
23. Uncritically following advice from AI is bad for your health: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/man-poisoned-himself-after-taking-medical-advice-from-chatgpt/UF7OXTA5PNF3PEB5YFHBNHE4QM/
24. Entrenched biases in datasets will lead to entrenched biases in AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/13/ai-artificial-intelligence-racism-sexism-australia-human-rights-commissioner
25. The most and least reliable current AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-models-hallucination-rates-hhem-rankings/
26. AI is better at defending systems than breaking into them, but how long before an arms race starts? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/ai_security_offense_defense/
27. AI perceive time differently to humans: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-perception-of-time
28. The economics of AI only make sense if the goal is for them to replace as many workers as possible: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/ai-business-payoff-lags.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.Re3i.TDnOyE2FgyNJ&smid=url-share
29. AI are so focused on pleasing users that it's dangerous to ask them why they make mistakes: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/why-its-a-mistake-to-ask-chatbots-about-their-mistakes/

Weekly Review 15 August 2025

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

1. AI can program drone controllers. But can they program other AI? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/generative_ai_codes_drone_control/
2. Google shifts computing around data centres according to local power demand, in an effort to reduce the effects of the massive energy demands of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/google_ai_datacenter_grid/
3. The trouble with politicians using AI is that it makes it easier for the AI companies to manipulate them: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/05/chat-gpt-swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-under-fire-for-using-ai-in-role
4. AI still cannot be trusted with medical decision making, the risk of hallucinations is too high: https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part
5. "Therefore I'm not surprised that there appears an openness to accept AI when ultimately it's an industry with little obligation to be accountable for their actions." That dude did not hold back: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/real_estate/
6. So when this AI crawler finds a site it isn't supposed to scrape, it switches to a stealthier mode and scrapes it anyway: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-site-perplexity-uses-stealth-tactics-to-flout-no-crawl-edicts-cloudflare-says/
7. The fight over copyright in AI training data is getting more and more invasive with regards to users' data: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/openai-offers-20-million-user-chats-in-chatgpt-lawsuit-nyt-wants-120-million/
8. There is still some way to go in using AI to make medical notes: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569348/artificial-intelligence-saves-doctors-time-but-makes-mistakes-study
9. Primary school teachers are struggling with AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569059/dire-need-for-ai-support-in-primary-intermediate-schools-survey-shows
10. What human-level AI is going to bring: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution-and-10-times-faster
11. Think watermarking is going to identify AI generated images? Nope: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-watermark-remover
12. Demands in Australia that AI companies pay for the use of the copyrighted material used to train their models: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/06/arts-and-media-groups-demand-labor-take-a-stand-against-rampant-theft-of-australian-content-to-train-ai
13. Microsoft has always had a problem moving from prototype to product, its AI projects are no exception: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4033846/microsofts-real-ai-challenge-moving-past-the-prototypes.html
14. The ridiculous salaries being paid to top AI developers: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/
15. New AI models are jailbroken on the first day of release: https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/07/new-openai-models-are-jailbreaked-on-day-1/
16. The dodgy ways AI companies make money from their users: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4036568/the-dark-side-of-ai-monetization.html
17. OpenAI's work towards human-level AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/inside-openais-quest-to-make-ai-do-anything-for-you/
18. AI crawlers do not respect robots.txt. Does it need to be made legally enforceable? https://spectrum.ieee.org/web-crawling
19. Using AI to backstop human errors seems like a sensible application: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/mod_taps_aussie_ai_shop/
20. People do not want Meta to use their data to train their AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/meta_training_ai_on_social/
21. Google denies AI summaries are costing sites traffic: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/google-denies-ai-search-features-are-killing-website-traffic/ In other news, Jack the Ripper claims to be a public safety worker.
22. Looks like models for fashion advertising are the next group to be put out of work by AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/the-uproar-over-vogues-ai-generated-ad-isnt-just-about-fashion/
23. You can run large language model AI locall. If you have the resources: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/run_openai_gpt_oss_locally/
24. If the future of software developers is only to verify the code generated by AI, how are the devs going to learn what to verify? https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/github_ceo_ai_coding/

Weekly Review 8 August 2025

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

1. EU rules around AI are now law: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/eu_ai_act/
2. The jobs likely to be most, and least, affected by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/microsoft_boffins_jobs_impacted_ai/
3. Coders are using more AI tools, but they still need to be able to code: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/29/coders_are_using_ai_tools/
4. The problem with using AI generated images in research publications is that they look good while being thoroughly wrong: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/27/biomedviz_ai_wrong_problems/
5. AI and academic freedom: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/07/25/faculty-better-get-active-ai-and-academic-freedom
6. Not so much a new AI, as a new set of controls around it to make it more useful as a tutor: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/openai-launches-study-mode-in-chatgpt/
7. Rather than using AI to estimate someone's age from their appearance, YouTube is using AI to guess their age from their activities. We'll see which is more accurate: https://www.theverge.com/news/715343/youtube-age-estimation-ai-minor-account-restrictions
8. Young people tend to embrace new tools faster, no matter how damaging they might be long term. AI is no exception: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/27/it-wants-users-hooked-and-jonesing-for-their-next-fix-are-young-people-becoming-too-reliant-on-ai
9. More on the new study mode in ChatGPT: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/chatgpts-new-study-mode-is-designed-to-help-you-learn-not-just-give-answers/
10. More AI integration in a web browser: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/microsoft-edge-is-now-an-ai-browser-with-launch-of-copilot-mode/
11. Do not use AI as a therapist! https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/sam-altman-warns-theres-no-legal-confidentiality-when-using-chatgpt-as-a-therapist/
12. More detail on the environmental damage AI is causing: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/mistrals-new-environmental-audit-shows-how-much-ai-is-hurting-the-planet/
13. More concerns from the music industry over AI generated music: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/568613/musicians-concerned-by-lack-of-regulation-around-fast-evolving-ai-technology
14. A new AI data centre in Wyoming will use more energy than all the homes in the state: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360773513/cheyenne-host-massive-ai-data-centre-using-more-electricity-all-wyoming-homes-combined
15. Use cases for large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/when-do-i-need-to-use-an-llm
16. Decisions made by AI should really be checked by a human: https://nypost.com/2025/07/28/business/hertz-customer-flagged-by-ai-scanner-for-damage-says-hes-done-with-firm/
17. It is getting harder and harder for people to distinguish reality from AI generated images: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/most-people-struggle-to-tell-real-images-from-ai-fakes-study-finds
18. Is anyone surprised that this AI plan benefits big companies? The US has their most venal president in history: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/25/trump-ai-action-plan
19. Resurrecting dead singers with AI seems a bit dubious, ethically speaking: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/how-an-ai-generated-song-ended-up-on-a-dead-artist-s-spotify-page
20. Moves to make using AI to set different prices for individuals illegal: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/deltas-ai-spying-to-jack-up-prices-must-be-banned-lawmakers-say/
21. A universal AI for robotics: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-breakthrough-could-put-the-same-brain-in-every-robot/
22. This is not going to end well. Governments are a bit more complicated than AI can handle: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/27/doge-has-built-an-ai-tool-to-slash-federal-regulations/
23. A biological evolutionary AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/proteus-mammalian-ai
24. The European Union's AI code: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-ai-code/

Weekly Review 1 August 2025

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

1. While some workers pretend they don't use AI, others are pretending that they do: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/ai_anxiety_us_workers/
2. Academics depend on funding to survive and progress their careers, so it's not surprising that some (many?) are using AI to write grant applications: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/nih_ai_research_application_ban/
3. Not every AI chatbot is bad for users' privacy: https://www.theverge.com/news/711860/proton-privacy-focused-ai-chatbot
4. AI summaries of web pages are diverting traffic to those websites, robbing them of views and revenue: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/google_ai_overviews_suppress_search/
5. Would human-level AI really be that bad? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/jul/21/human-level-artificial-intelligence
6. I'm still rather surprised that people need to be told not to share their personal data with AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/19/for-privacy-and-security-think-twice-before-granting-ai-access-to-your-personal-data/
7. AI are algorithms, not magic. If you want good performance from your AI, you have to train it on good data: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/data-quality-for-unbiased-results-preventing-ai-induced-hallucinations/
8. One of the first things I learned as an undergrad software engineer was that you use technology to solve identified problems, you don't go looking for problems to apply your technology to: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/21/openai-signs-deal-with-uk-to-find-government-uses-for-its-models
9. Are AI companions starting to replace real friends for teens? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/72-of-u-s-teens-have-used-ai-companions-study-finds/
10. These are the people deciding what our kids should be learning? So clueless that they wanted to use AI to do the job for them? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/567601/school-curriculum-rewrite-had-serious-problems-managers-considered-using-ai-to-help
11. As AI advances, real-world robots become more capable: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4025052/from-chatbots-to-robots-the-rise-of-physical-ai.html
12. We don't need human-level AI to replace huge numbers of jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/22/openai-sam-altman-congress-ai-jobs
13. This might look like a good idea, but people are lazy and will just take what the AI says as true without checking: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/22/uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers
14. Humans still write code better than AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/ For now.
15. How New Zealand local and central government is using AI to process public submissions: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/568008/how-and-why-artificial-intelligence-is-being-used-to-process-your-submissions-to-politicians
16. The wholesale scraping of training data for AI has led to a legal minefield: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4025938/time-to-consider-ai-models-that-dont-steal.html
17. Courts are struggling to pick up AI-generated submissions and errors: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/its-frighteningly-likely-many-us-courts-will-overlook-ai-errors-expert-says/
18. The deterioration of US research capacity continues at an accelerated pace: https://www.science.org/content/article/my-academic-job-offer-was-rescinded-i-ll-keep-going-u-s-researchers-are-running-out I would say come to New Zealand, but we're not doing much better
19. Wargaming with AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/thunderforge-ai-wargames-dod Insert obligatory comment about Skynet...
20. Despite how often people use AI, they still don't trust it: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/23/we-use-ai-billions-of-times-a-day-but-we-still-dont-trust-it/
21. Optimising AI for the edge of the cloud: https://spectrum.ieee.org/edge-ai
22. Some more ways educators can reduce students cheating with AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/07/16/we-cant-ban-generative-ai-we-can-friction-fix-it-opinion
23. Advances in AI have led to advances in surgical robotics: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/experimental-surgery-performed-by-ai-driven-surgical-robot/
24. AI is accelerating movie making, and it's getting better and better at it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/20/artificial-intelligence-ai-tools-gamechanger-for-film-makers

Weekly Review 25 July 2025

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

1. The "fair use" defence of AI companies scraping the web for training data is not valid in the EU: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/eu_genai_fair_use/
2. For safety, we need to know what AI are thinking: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-industry-to-monitor-ais-thoughts/
3. Again, this isn't authors using prompts to trick people, it's authors tricking the AI reviewers are using instead of doing the reviewing themselves: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-hidden-ai-prompts-academic-research-papers/
4. For some developers, AI coding tools make them less productive, not more so: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/ai-coding-tools-may-not-speed-up-every-developer-study-shows/
5. Another security bug-since fixed-in an AI: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/meta-fixes-bug-that-could-leak-users-ai-prompts-and-generated-content/
6. I still use the terminal for a lot of programming work. I'm strangely gratified to see AI making its way there: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/ai-coding-tools-are-shifting-to-a-surprising-place-the-terminal/
7. Energy demands of AI are rising, but so are solutions: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/companies-focus-on-ways-of-achieving-energy-efficiency-as-consumption-keeps-increasing/TFNBHB2PMRH5ZM726GYS4OUHV4/
8. The corporate risks around AI are beginning to be better known: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/sec_risk_factors_ai/
9. Do not rely on AI for therapy: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/
10. AI companies are under-estimating and under-preparing for the dangers of advanced AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/17/ai-firms-unprepared-for-dangers-of-building-human-level-systems-report-warns
11. An improved approach to Copilot AI viewing your screen, but I'm not convinced the security and privacy issues have been adequately addressed: https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/16/copilot-vision-now-sees-your-whole-screen/
12. If you're in AI, big corporations are the best place to find big salaries: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/janco_it_salary_report/
13. AI chatbots are not an adequate or safe alternative to human therapists. They are a lot cheaper though: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/study-warns-of-significant-risks-in-using-ai-therapy-chatbots/
14. Big AI companies are as vulnerable to the risks of growing too quickly as any other organisation: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/a-former-openai-engineer-describes-what-its-really-like-to-work-there/
15. The European Union's rules around AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-ai-code/
16. An AI generated band found success, and people never even realised it was AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/an-ai-generated-band-got-1m-plays-on-spotify-now-music-insiders-say-listeners-should-be-warned
17. AI generated an improved recipe for low-carbon concrete: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/meta_ai_concrete_model/
18. AI generated slop is being used to populate click-harvesting websites: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/567221/how-a-local-website-was-hijacked-and-filled-with-ai-generated-coherent-gibberish
19. Ways AI can be applied to financial forecasting: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-is-transforming-financial-forecasting-for-smbs-and-enterprises/
20. Turns out, the problems with using AI in sports are more to do with the people using it: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/15/rise-of-the-machines-ai-outrage-technology-tennis-sport
21. Improved algorithms boost the performance of AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/new_algorithms_boost_ai_perf/
22. AI is making things worse for new graduates hunting for jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/13/workforce-crisis-key-takeaways-graduates-ai-jobs-market
23. Ten simple maths and stats commands in Python: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-python-math-statistical-analysis-one-liners
24. Why am I not surprised that this particular AI company has lax safety standards? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/openai-and-anthropic-researchers-decry-reckless-safety-culture-at-elon-musks-xai/

Weekly Review 18 July 2025

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

1. An arms race is happening, between the AI cheaters and the AI cheat detectors: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/why-cluelys-roy-lee-isnt-sweating-cheating-detectors/
2. When will artificial general intelligence arrive? Sometime after we can define what it means: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and-thats-a-multibillion-dollar-problem/
3. I think if I left my online shopping to an AI, I'd end up with 15 copies of books I already own: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/genai-as-a-shopping-assistant-set-to-explode-during-prime-day-sales/
4. How AI is being used by terrorists-not terminators, but for recruitment and fund raising: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/terrorist-groups-artificial-intelligence
5. The problem here isn't that the paper authors are trying to fool an AI, it's that reviewers are using AI to do the reviews for them: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/scholars_try_to_fool_llm_reviewers/
6. How gaming can be a way of cutting through AI hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/ai_scores_a_huge_own/
7. This is one of the real dangers of AI, using them to mislead and manipulate people: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360751040/impostor-uses-ai-impersonate-rubio-and-contact-foreign-and-us-officials
8. It seems an unfortunate part of New Zealand culture that we tend to be more ahead in social matters, and more behind in technological matters. AI is no exception to this: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360754851/we-need-more-human-intelligence-we-try-figure-out-artificial-intelligence
9. AI hallucination as creativity: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/chatgpt-made-up-a-product-feature-out-of-thin-air-so-this-company-created-it/
10. An AI-generated home cleaning schedule: https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/360748878/ai-cleaning-my-house-and-its-been-total-game-changer
11. Even though investment in AI continues, higher level executives are starting to lose interest: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/csuite_sours_on_ai/
12. Using AI to translate Chinese to sign language is a difficult problem: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/china_ai_sign_language_translation/
13. When talking about AI generated videos, thr image caption "Bible stories are being reimagined through the Americanised lens of fuckboy vlog culture" might just be the best I've ever seen: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/07/what-if-jesus-was-a-vlogger-the-ai-bible-stories-flooding-social-media
14. How to avoid AI making you stupid: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/09/how-to-keep-ai-from-making-your-employees-stupid/
15. The emerging role of agentic AI in software engineering: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-agentic-ai-reshapes-your-development/
16. High school students using AI to cheat is a growing problem in New Zealand: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ai-driven-exam-breaches-surge-as-schools-grapple-with-cheating-top-principals-warning/5PTARAXHCNAJ7O2ZGWQQKI4L2A/
17. How to transition into AI even if your background is not tech: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-ways-to-transition-into-ai-from-a-non-tech-background
18. Manipulation of people-including emotional manipulation-is the real danger of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/12/i-felt-pure-unconditional-love-the-people-who-marry-their-ai-chatbots
19. AI will put everyone out of work in 20 years: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/futurist-adam-dorr-robots-ai-jobs-replace-human-labour
20. Nonexistent caselaw, hallucinated from an AI, causes a court ruling to be thrown out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/georgia_appeals_court_ai_caselaw/
21. While AI is a useful tool, decisions should always be backed up by a human: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/ai_wimbledon_fail/
22. An image recognition AI that more closely approximates the human visual system: https://spectrum.ieee.org/topographic-neural-network
23. Stealing cryptocurrency with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ai_agents_automatically_steal_cryptocurrency/
24. Semantic layers provide a better way for AI to access data: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/08/rethinking-ai-ready-data-with-semantic-layers/