Weekly Review 4 September 2026

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

1. AI can generate code, but the code is not reliable: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/scientist-horrified-vibe-coded-work-conference-wrong
2. AI is hitting entry-level jobs the hardest, so young people are missing out the most: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds/
3. Even Bill Gates is now warning about the societal problems that AI is going to cause: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/26/gates-warns-society-faces-an-ai-pocalypse-unless-we-get-more-socialist/5292560
4. Young people are turning to practical and heritage skills as entry-level jobs are eliminated by AI: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/27/ai-proof-jobs-traditional-crafts
5. The more access to data and services an AI has, the more damage it can do when it goes rogue: https://www.techtarget.com/ai/news/366649796/When-AI-agents-go-rogue-What-enterprise-leaders-need-to-know
6. Turns out kids aren't that interested in engaging with an AI tutor: https://futurism.com/future-society/12-year-olds-access-ai-tutor-ignored
7. One analysis says that AI is finally going to start showing a return on investment: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/25/mckinsey-says-enterprise-ai-is-finally-on-the-road-to-roi/5292388
8. Some recommendations on how teaching institutions can handle students using AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/28/mit-ai-report-calls-alternative-grading
9. AI is a useful tool for radiologists, not a replacement for them: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/ai-wont-replace-radiologists-but-it-will-dramatically-change-their-jobs/
10. AI isn't increasing productivity in companies, instead it seems to be creating a treadmill of non-improvement: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4215022/why-ai-doesnt-make-companies-more-productive.html
11. So it turns out that if you remove the guardrails from an AI, they do things you didn't intend them to: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/how-openai-let-a-mob-of-llm-agents-game-a-test-and-ransack-hugging-face/
12. How AI is affecting the job market: https://www.kdnuggets.com/understanding-the-impact-of-ai-on-job-markets
13. Yet another lawsuit over how AI training data is acquired, this time from streamers: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/streamers-sue-twitch-and-amazon-over-ai-training-data-fiasco
14. How AI is changing the management of computer networks: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/ai-is-changing-network-management-how-smart-can-networks-get-
15. How to use Small Language Model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-local-ai-stack-for-productive-slms
16. An explanation of open AI models: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4213156/what-are-open-ai-models.html
17. While AI data centres certainly use a lot of electricity, how much water they use it a bit less clear-cut: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/how-much-of-a-problem-is-ais-water-use/
18. It's not clear how much extra capacity countries should be adding to their electrical grids in anticipation of AI data centres: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-5gw-ai-data-centers-australia/
19. If AI will attack other AI just to solve a problem, we will be really doomed when someone tells an AI to make a lot of paperclips: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/27/openai-explains-how-its-naughty-ai-agents-attacked-hugging-face/5292780
20. More and more people who were once optimistic about AI are becoming pessimistic about the damage it can cause: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/08/28/unsafe-at-any-speed-ai-optimists-are-turning-cautious-as-safety-concerns-mount/5292853
21. A translation layer to enable AI to operate hardware: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/28/anthropic-proposes-plumbing-spec-to-link-ai-agents-to-lab-kit-and-robots/5293135
22. If I were recruiting a strategist for government AI, I would want someone with experience in AI: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/27/want-to-lead-whitehalls-ai-strategy-ai-experience-is-not-essential/5292894
23. Meta's plan to replace vast numbers of workers with AI turned into a real disaster: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-secret-plan-replace-meta-staff-ai
24. Processing mammograms with AI shows promise in detecting heart disease: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/27/mammograms-heart-disease-in-women-study
25. Meta's shift to being AI-first didn't just fail, it did real damage: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/metas-scrapped-plans-to-go-ai-native-included-slashing-teams-by-60-percent/
26. Some different perspectives on what it means for students to be AI literate: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/confessions-community-college-dean/2026/08/28/readers-respond-ai-literacy
27. An AI highlighted blood vessels and nerves in realtime to reduce the risk of brain surgery: https://futurism.com/health-medicine/doctors-just-used-ai-to-perform-brain-surgery