Jill Walker Rettberg

Anthropic cofounder says studying the humanities will be 'more important than ever' and reveals what the AI company looks for when hiring | Fortune "The things that make us human will become much more important instead of much less important."

Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei has a degree in literature and thinks AI will mean we need more people with humanities degrees. fortune.com/2026/02/07/a...

Politihøgskolen brukte falske KI-tall: — Jeg legger meg flat Da Politihøgskolen skulle bestemme hvor lang tid de ansatte skulle få til å forberede undervisning, brukte den falske KI-tall som saksgrunnlag.

The Norwegian police academy used an AI summary that claimed to show how other universities/colleges calcukate prep time for teaching to decide their norms - but Copilot had just made up the numbers... www.khrono.no/politihogsko...

Hm, that looks kind of impressive but sort of just saying look at all these cool and complicated things rather than checking whether they actually work? I'm in rather an annoyed mood after reviewing two heavily LLM-assisted papers, all surface, no substance, and irrelevant citations everywhere.

Also, I think most office workers are using the chatbots not the API, so perhaps testing the API is not a realistic use case?

Here's a PDF about a report to the Australian parliament about how badly LLM document summarisation worked in 2024. But now the Australian AI Plan says go all in on document summarisation. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...

I found this, which links to the post I already shared and to a report for the Australia parliament, also from 2024, finding that document summarisation doesn’t work. Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way – Pivot to AI pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/d...

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind. One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…

Does anyone know of more recent tests of LLM document summarisation? This is from 2024 and compared human summaries to ChatGPT summaries and found it shortened rather than summarised and left out key points. ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/w...

The humanities should be construed as critical democratic infrastructure.

If we understood it as such, we'd see the madness in this 👇. See it as what it is: democratic cultures doing self-harm.

The erosion of the humanities is directly linked to the acute democratic backsliding we're witnessing.

I mean, this is entirely standard. I have never received a request to review a book manuscript that paid more than that, and many pay nothing, or they pay "we'll send you $300 worth of books from our publishing house". But then I got great reviews of MY books so it goes both ways.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Viktig å beskytte barna ja, dette er ikke et problem i det hele tatt.

We will not be intimidated.
And we will keep you informed.

Switzerland: US analytics firm takes Republik magazine to court The American company Palantir Technologies has filed a lawsuit against Republik, an independent Swiss media outlet that published an in-depth ...

#Switzerland: The 🇺🇸 company Palantir Technologies has filed a lawsuit against Republik, an independent 🇨🇭 media outlet that published in-depth investigation into its activities. We stand by @republik.ch and view this legal action as an attempt to intimidate and deter critical reporting.

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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.

Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia

"Sometimes the problem is not how the sausage
gets made, but that they’re making people into sausage" dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This new paper looks very robust. A question remains: does the algorithmic "For you" feed on X make users more conservative because it's designed to do so, or would any algorithmic feed designed to sell more ads do the same? We need the same experiment for TikTok, Instagram, Bluesky etc.

KI-kunnskap og KI-politikk: Fartsfylte visjoner – med farefulle resultater? Hilde Reinertsen (UiO) diskuterer i denne førelesinga konsekvensar av KI-basert evidensproduksjon for politikkutforming og offentleg forvalting.

I'm heading over to this talk by Hilde Reinertsen about how AI-generated reports influence politics - she's one of the co-authors of that article demonstrating that the 155,000 public sector jobs that could be saved by using AI was based on AI-generated numbers. www.uib.no/svt/181467/k...

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

"Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists" describes my trajectory from seeing how the internet COULD HAVE and in some ways did increase democracy to seeing the richest people in the world figure out how to use tech to exploit and manipulate the rest of us. aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

Bar declared crime scene as ACT police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new hate laws Police have seized five posters on display in the window of a Canberra bar, declaring a "crime scene" while they investigate the artworks under new Commonwealth hate laws.

Here’s the news report on this: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Australia’s new hate laws used to close Dissent Bar in Canberra as a “crime scene” because they had these artworks posted on their windows. The posters are confiscated. You can buy your own copies from www.growupart.com/product/the-.... This format is sold out but there’s t-shirts, other posters+++

I suppose that *could* have something to do with who we were the most interested in learning about and writing about... Maybe we just haven't put the effort into understanding the mens' relationships?

A few of these people are connections that we haven't confirmed were actually at one of Charles Babbage's parties, like Lord Melbourne - but most of them are confirmed guests mentioned in diaries, letters, memoirs. We'll publish a larp and the dataset later this year.

My excellent intern put all the relationships between people into a spreadsheet and we made a network diagram of how the guests at Babbage's soirées knew each other. Such fun! Visualizations always make the missing stuff really clear - e.g. Tagore and Wheatstone would have had had friends.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Critical AI Theory Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. The AI STORIES project at the Center for Digital Narrative at UiB invites you to a series of reading group discussions about critical theory and AI. Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2026. “Technofascism: AI, Big...

The first hybrid Critical AI Theory Reading Group starts in an hour and 43 minutes, at noon Central European time. We're discussing Coeckelbergh's new paper on technofascism: doi.org/10.1007/s001... Register here if you have read the paper and want to discuss: uib.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Ja! For vi HADDE jo infrastruktur før. Ikke mange årene siden vi sluttet å kjøre egne epostservere heller.

Tung fortsetter ved å si at Ap har gjort mye for å styre Norge digitalt, som å bygge ut bredbånd og øke sikkerhet osv. Men hun vil ikke si noe konkret om hvordan sikre at staten har en løsning dersom man ikke lenger kan eller bør bruke amerikanske systemer som Microsoft og Google.

Tung gir en lang liste av alt vi må ha selvforsyning av alt fra litium til forskning til kontorprogramvarer for å bli digitalt selvforsynte og det er umulig. Debattleder: så det beste er det godes fiende? Skal vi ikke gjøre noe siden vi ikke kan bli 100% digitalt selvforsynte?

«Karianne Tung, hvorfor mener du at Norge ikke skal ha digital suverenitet?» NRK Radio nå.

På NRK radio nå kl 07:45 - er digitalt selvstyre en fullstendig utopi? Det mener visst regjeringen.