Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- AI pessimists now out-number the optimists: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/majority-americans-ai-bad-society
- Deloitte charged the West Australian government for a report that contained AI generated material, and now they want their money back: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/26/deloitte-report-wa-university-mergers-260m-discrepancy-ai
- AI means that even low-skilled attackers can cause serious damage to systems: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/21/ai-has-potential-to-turn-script-kiddies-into-sophisticated-infrastructure-attackers/5304297
- How much should librarians be teaching students about AI?: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/2026/10/23/what-librarians-can-and-cant-say-about-ai-opinion
- The struggle with removing AI generated content from Wikipedia. https: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
- There's already an existing body of research on teaching that is applicable to the use of AI in education: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/10/22/science-learning-should-guide-ai-use-decisions-opinion
- AI powered cameras cut costs for conservation efforts by saving time identifying pests: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/2044455/the-kiwi-ai-tech-saving-our-native-bush-from-pests
- Experienced humans are still needed to check AI. But AI means the pathways to get experience are disappearing: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/20/ai-human-judgment
- If AI is taking the struggle out of learning, how much do students really learn?: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2026/10/this-university-of-michigan-instructor-experimented-with-ai-now-she-bans-it.html
- Are AI really conscious or does it just look that way because they are trained on human writings? I suspect it's more likely the latter than the former: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-model-welfare
- The different levels of AI experience and what they mean: https://www.kdnuggets.com/what-companies-actually-mean-when-they-say-they-want-ai-experience
- The transition to a a fully capitalist model broke universities, AI is just finishing them off: https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-ai-is-devastating-higher-education-but-the-system-was-already-broken-292988
- An AI gateway sits between the AI and your services, a bit like a firewall: https://dataconomy.com/2026/10/22/top-5-ai-gateways-for-enterprise-security-a-2026-guide/
- AI is moving into the physical world. And this is how we get terminators: https://www.techtarget.com/ai/news/366652714/Prompt-AI-moves-beyond-the-screen
- Turns out AI have a very low opinion of humans: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/23/ai-models-describe-humans-as-a-bunch-of-amoral-sheep/5305123
- AI companions are a bad solution to a real problem: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361049668/i-started-dating-ai-girlfriend-and-things-got-weird-fast
- Even if AI can diagnose better than a human, I will still consult a human doctor as there is so much more to medicine than diagnosis: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-new-ai-better-real-doctors
- While AI is using 20% of IT budgets, it's still not paying for itself: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/21/ai-will-eat-a-fifth-of-tech-budgets-in-2027-but-dont-expect-it-to-pay-for-itself/5304466
