Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- Why philosophers like to work with AI companies and what they think about: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-ethics-deepmind-philosopher-shevlin
- We don't need to switch to the newest AI model as soon as it comes out: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/10/14/it-wont-kill-you-or-humanity-to-get-off-the-ai-upgrade-treadmill/5301778
- Producers let an AI access their server, and it deleted an entire TV series: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-deleting-tv-show-season
- An AI interviews an AI for a job, and both get stuck in a loop: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/14/chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee/5303144
- AI is going to make it easier for bad actors to create bioweapons: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/could-ai-change-the-stakes-in-the-development-of-bioweapons
- More investigations around AI safety: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ftc-subpoenas-openai-anthropic-ai-safety/
- AI is not going to generate enough revenue to cover the cost of building the data centres for at least the next three years: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/14/the-ai-math-isnt-mathing-as-infrastructure-spending-forecast-to-outstrip-expected-revenue/5302856
- As AI grows, so does the need for universities to have staff that work in the area of the philosophy of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/2026/10/15/universities-have-gone-ai-philosopher-hiring-spree
- AI designs a new protease: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/researchers-use-ai-to-design-proteins-that-cut-up-other-proteins/
- Epic Games is going AI first. Cue the gamer rage: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/report-epic-games-goes-all-in-on-ai-for-disney-collaboration/
- The EU is digging into recent AI security breaches, and how the companies that own the AI are handling them: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-eu-openai-anthropic-ai-act-agent-security-emea/
- The IMF is warning of the financial fallout if / when the AI bubble bursts: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/13/ai-bubble-could-burst-and-take-global-economy-with-it-imf-warns/5302781
- It does not increase public confidence in the safety of your AI if you fire the people who question the safety of said AI: https://dataconomy.com/2026/10/15/openai-fired-three-researchers-who-warned-of-ai-blind-spots/
- This should be obvious-an AI is only as good as the data used to create it, even my first-year students know that: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/10/12/ai-is-only-as-smart-as-the-data-behind-it/
- Do we really want AI-powered robots to be able to talk to each other? Who knows what they're plotting: https://www.techtarget.com/ai/news/366652129/Robots-cant-talk-to-each-other-yet-thats-a-big-AI-bottleneck
- Self-replicating AI on the edge of the cloud is not what we need, we'd never be able to turn them off: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/anthropic-warns-small-ai-models-could-self-replicate-through-iot-devices/
- AI need good data. This applies to CRM data also: https://dataconomy.com/2026/10/15/why-ai-agents-make-crm-data-governance-more-important-than/
- Free open source AI alternatives: https://www.kdnuggets.com/7-open-source-ai-tools-that-can-replace-paid-subscriptions
- Why would using conscious AI to do work for us slavery? Plenty of animals are conscious, and they work for us. We even eat some of them: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-models-conscious-work-slavery
- AI shares are being sold off, leading to investor nervousness: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/15/tech-market-sell-off-deepens-amid-fears-over-us-inflation-and-ai-debt
- The problem with detecting AI generated writing is that AI were trained on human writing, so some people will naturally write like AI do: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/zimbabwean-author-simbarashe-kundizeza-denies-ai-story
