AI

Dartmouth Provost resigns over AI use—Is something else going on?

Lots of people are using AI without disclosing it. So why did the provost leave entirely? Continue reading ›
Nov 5, 2026 2 min read Academia, AI

"Official Claude Code Extension Compromise: Security Advisory"

Bad look for Claude Code? Continue reading ›
Oct 30, 2026 1 min read Link post, AI, Security and Privacy

Peerless

AI paper reviews are useful for authors not for peer review. Continue reading ›
Oct 27, 2026 12 min read Peer review, AI

Self-Cite Circus (SCC)

Make 365 papers and get 66,430 citations. Continue reading ›
Sep 30, 2026 2 min read Academia, AI, Peer review

"Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude to Break Into OpenAI"

The attack failed, then a new model shipped, and then it worked. Continue reading ›
Sep 23, 2026 1 min read Link post, AI, Security and Privacy

Dear ChatGPT,

I wanted a rejection and, gosh darnit, I got it. Continue reading ›
Sep 19, 2026 2 min read AI, Peer review, Science history

Lab leak

The weights of a frontier model get out within 18 months. Continue reading ›
Sep 18, 2026 1 min read AI, Security and Privacy, Crazy ideas

"How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments"

What’s left for students when AI creeps into their lab? Continue reading ›
Sep 9, 2026 1 min read Link post, AI, Science

"Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped"

Science doesn’t work well under time pressure. Continue reading ›
Aug 18, 2021 2 min read Link post, COVID-19, AI

"Robo-writers: the rise and risks of language-generating AI"

The hilarious, and terrifying, lack of commonsense in AI writing. Continue reading ›
Mar 4, 2021 1 min read Link post, AI, Writing

Clutching our crystals

It’s all fun and games until someone believes in witchcraft. Continue reading ›
Mar 1, 2021 2 min read Science, AI

My response in Nature – the director's cut

The SciTLDR saga continues. Continue reading ›
Feb 2, 2021 4 min read AI, Writing, Paper

Let's let the AIs summarize our research. What could possibly go wrong?

‘Search engine’s tool for summarizing studies promises easier skim-reading.’ To what end? Continue reading ›
Nov 25, 2020 4 min read Science, AI

Democratizing AI - new paper

I have a new paper out this week, Democratizing AI: Non-expert design of prediction tasks. Let’s discuss. Continue reading ›
Sep 8, 2020 6 min read Paper, AI

Will AI cause a large-scale industrial accident?

The tragedy that occurred in Beirut this month is a chilling reminder of how short-term thinking and organizational blind spots endanger all our lives. Here, sadly, it appears the mistakes were human. Continue reading ›
Aug 24, 2020 4 min read AI
Will AI cause a large-scale industrial accident?