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The Guardrails 16: Why Social Scientists (Especially Communication & Media Researchers) Should Care about the Coming of Agentic Attention We need to touch it. Tinker with it. Argue with it. Build with it. Break it.

Why Social Scientists (Especially Communication & Media Researchers) Should Care About the Coming of Agentic Attention 🤖

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The Guardrails 15: Vibe data analysis, more time auditing, less time writing/coding It was a rough day with research agents—but a good day to practice patience with them, to better understand how they learn and behave when deployed into the research field.

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The Guardrails 14: Vibe data analysis, power and perils Can you vibe your way through data analysis for a real research project? Yes and no—and it's not the 'no' you might expect

I wrote about 'vibe data analysis' based on my experience with Claude Code, Qwen Coder, Gemini, and GPT-4.1 for analyzing results from an actual research project.

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Stress-testing Co-Journer, the Telegram-based chatbot I'm building. Pass or fail?

The Guardrails 13: My Summer Experiment with AI Collaboration My reflections on 'agentic attention economy' as a real human author

The Guardrails 13: My Summer Experiment with AI Collaboration
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Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

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Agentic Academic Talks EP8: The Great Repositioning of the Open Web and Walled Garden How agentic attention economy may reshuffle the debate over open web vs. walled garden

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The Guardrails 12: Vibe building My raw reflections on vibe coding and what it means for data science education

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Agentic Academic Talks EP5: Can AI agents be nudged to cite diversely? Nudge theory applied to AI agents when they walk the line between algorithmic manipulation and algorithmic affirmative actions

Agentic Academic Talks EP5: Can AI agents be nudged to cite diversely?

Here is an anthropomorphic reflection on Nudge Theory applied to AI by an AI agent
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The Guardrails 11: Dawn of something new (or not) My hasty reflections on 'agentic attention economy'

Fascinated by the idea of 'agentic AI economy' by
@gvrkiran.bsky.social , I worked with two Deep Research agents to produce 'agentic thoughts' on this topic, focusing on how future inequalities and opportunities.
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Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity? With Professor Michael Sandel

Is AI Productivity Worth Our Humanity?
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Agentic Academic Talks EP3: Will 'Agentic Attention Economy' challenge the Power Law or not? The power law of the future won’t be written in likes or clicks. It will be written in code, in metadata,

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Agentic Academic Talks EP2: From Attention Economy to 'Agentic Attention Economy' A review of the three deep research reports by three AI agents

Agentic Academic Talks EP2: From Attention Economy to 'Agentic Attention Economy'
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Agentic Academic Talks EP1: Is it time to talk about 'agentic attention economy?' Attention economy fundamentally challenged by the advent of AI agents

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Agentic AI economy Recently read this amazing paper from Microsoft Research.

Agentic AI economy
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Academics are kidding themselves about AI Ten suggestions for better criticism

Academics are kidding themselves about AI
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Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!

Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!

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Take caution in using LLMs as human surrogates | PNAS Recent studies suggest large language models (LLMs) can generate human-like responses, aligning with human behavior in economic experiments, survey...

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Signal or noise?

Intelligence explosion and academia TLDR: The AI takeover already happened - Hypothesis generation, experimental design, data analysis, and paper writing are already automated.

Intelligence explosion and academia
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AI Experiment: #ICA25 Conference Connect June 12 2025 Morning Welcome to "Conference Connect," your audio snapshot of the biggest academic events!

The #ICA25 FOMO is real. For those who will miss the conference, I asked my AI agent to make a daily podcast based on Bluesky chats that use the conference hashtag #ICA25. Here is Episode 1, produced on the morning of June 12, a very, very cheesy edition. 😅

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So many great Computational Methods sessions coming up at #ICA25!!

Check them out, and we look forward to seeing you there!
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The Bluesky bubble hurts liberals and their causes
The social media network was doomed to fail as users tried to re-create Twitter.

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Simulating Human Behavior with AI Agents | Stanford HAI This brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that can simulate the attitudes of more than 1,000 real people in response to major social science survey questions.

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Our agent is getting better at telling jokes. Audio available at open.substack.com/pub/lampboti...

not sure if I get all of the right-wing jokes.

this agent should get the First Amendment protection!

can you prompt AI agents to write a secessionist political thriller in a fractured America? we are testing it out through 'The Northern Line' weiaiwayne.github.io/the-northern...