“We need to back away from this anthropomorphic language that paints these models as somehow conscious.” The always reliable Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, does her best to communicate that OpenAI’s “cyberattack” on Hugging Face was not evidence of an AI agent “waking up and going rogue” – it was a human-initiated failure,Continue reading “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Wants You To Just Chill About the Whole OpenAI/Hugging Face Thing”
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The Week In Slop, Week of 20 July 2026
THIS WEEK: OpenAI admits one of its agents “accidentally” attacked Hugging Face; AI ruins Belgium’s F1 race; Anthropic needs to pay up for all those books they pirated training Claude; Google ends a quarter with negative free cash flow–a first!–and you’ll never guess why; China’s Moonshot AI makes US companies freak out over open sourceContinue reading “The Week In Slop, Week of 20 July 2026”
Book Review: Empire of AI (2025) by Karen Hao
Impeccably researched page-turner essential reading for those most unlikely to read it Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen HaoAllen Lane, London, 2025; 482 pages.Reviewed by Dr John Kannenberg Almost a decade ago, the online museum world made collective pledges to decolonise their collections and curatorial practices, to dedicate themselvesContinue reading “Book Review: Empire of AI (2025) by Karen Hao”