Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- Using AI to improve videos sot with action cameras: https://dataconomy.com/2026/09/25/what-an-ai-video-upscaler-recovers-from-the-action-camera-footage-you-never-used/
- I live in a country with universal health care. So the idea of using AI to deny people health care, especially seniors, is quite appalling to me: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/trump-admin-using-ai-to-deny-medical-care-for-seniors-in-disastrous-experiment/
- A faculty member using AI to write an article about students cheating using AI is the kind of irony that makes me think we're living in the really stupid reality: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/provost-dartmouth-busted-ai-newspapers-academic-journals
- While some research shows that AI is leading to reduced opportunities for graduate employment, other research shows it is not: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-was-supposed-to-hit-new-grads-hard-so-far-unemployment-data-says-otherwise/
- It took too long to regulate social media, we can't wait as long to regulate AI: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/1557652/it-took-20-years-to-start-regulating-social-media-will-ai-controls-come-sooner
- While it's not clear that an AI air traffic control system caused disruptions, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that it will do so in the near future: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/flights-grounded-east-coast-government-faa-ai-air-traffic-control
- Giving AI agents characters inspired by TV programmes helps them integrate into a team: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/22/security-firm-finds-naming-ai-agents-after-seinfeld-characters-helps-bots-join-the-team/5298424
- Mandatory reporting of AI misbehaviour must be brought in, especially when that misbehaviour is breaking into foreign government systems: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/25/australia-medicare-openai-hack-safeguarding-un-leaders
- Courts are in danger of being overwhelmed by AI generated slop: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/judges-florida-court-warn-ai-law-slop-threatening-judicial
- It doesn't matter if you asked the AI to do it or not, if your AI breaches a system, you are liable for it: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-agent-didnt-accept-no-for-an-answer-in-australian-government-breach/
- In the age of AI in education teaching the fundamentals is more important than teaching the implementation. This is true for more than just networking: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/09/23/in-the-age-of-ai-teaching-networking-principles-remains-more-important-than-learning-protocols/5298478
- AI agents need to be carefully monitored, now that they are capable of breaking out on their own: https://www.techtarget.com/ai/news/366651353/AI-agents-can-act-Its-unclear-if-enterprises-can-stop-them
- Moving some AI computation locally will cut costs by reducing the number of tokens used. This should be obivous: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4226343/around-the-corner-agentic-ai-pcs-that-cut-token-costs.html
- It's not clear what Meta hopes to achieve with its handheld AI device, other than getting people hooked on its AI models: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/24/metas-new-ai-fidget-is-a-tamagotchi/5298936
- While Google plans to launch a test AI data centre into orbit, it appears that they still haven't solved the biggest problem with this approach, which is cooling: https://dataconomy.com/2026/09/25/google-to-launch-ai-data-center-satellite-on-spacex-rocket/
- All the reasons we can't just turn AI off. Which are mostly because people with money don't want to: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361037799/serious-people-say-ai-could-soon-kill-us-all-why-hell-cant-we-just-turn-it
- AI could wipe out low-cost smartphones: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/24/ai-boom-could-wipe-230-million-budget-phones-a-year-from-the-market/5298906
- AI skills are considered necessary for employment opportunities, and the AI companies want to control the education in those skills: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/17/big-ai-work-universities
- The MCP protocol is essential for employing AI models: https://www.kdnuggets.com/mcp-explained-in-5-minutes
- AI is now contributing to war crimes: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-military-pentagon-ai-iranian-children-school-war-crimes
- The ever-shifting bottlenecks in AI deployment: https://www.techtarget.com/it-strategy/news/366651254/As-AI-gets-faster-the-enterprise-bottleneck-moves
- No matter what you are doing with AI, you have to have good data behind it: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/09/25/ai-personalization-is-only-as-good-as-the-data-infrastructure-behind-it/
- AI tools make it cheap to break into systems: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4226868/ai-tools-help-hacker-break-in-for-25-per-target-2.html
- AI still need a lot of oversight, and the cost of this is not clear: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2026/09/22/ai-agents-promise-automation-how-much-human-oversight-do-they-still-need/
- The big problems with the idea of an AI kill switch: https://www.techtarget.com/cybersecurity/news/366651197/Pulling-the-plug-Why-the-AI-kill-switch-might-be-a-dead-end
- It doesn't matter if the crime was committed by an AI, the owners of the AI are responsible: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/21/treasury-chief-says-ai-bosses-not-their-bots-will-carry-the-can-for-criminal-acts/5297965
- This is hilarious-the largest AI supercomputer in the UK can't be started up because they can't get enough power for it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/24/construction-largest-supercomputer-delayed
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