Warren at rest

Warren McCulloch, the father of neural networks, talks AI in 1962. https://t.co/9pVcyoLqvO

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 9, 2026

Alive as you or me

 

Fr. Antonio Spadaro has revealed that Pope Leo XIV introduced himself to Bob Dylan as a 'a son of St. Augustine' in reference to Dylan's song 'I Dreamed I saw Saint Augustine' https://t.co/PTfopIuE51

— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) November 4, 2026

Acceleration

AI acceleration has widened the gap between technology and policy. In my view, the first crack in that gap occurred with the 1996 dismantling of the Office of Technology Assessment in favor of corporate self-governance. The OTA used to be a go-to source for good sense -- what the world needs now. This and more is discussed in my Medium post, 'Heading AI Exceptionalism Off at the Pass: Khan at Atlanticpalooza.' And yes, it takes a look into that recent Atlantic podcast with Lina Khan, the tech billionaires' most dreaded regulator and critic. https://jackivaughan.medium.com/heading-ai-exceptionalism-off-at-the-pass-khan-at-atlanticpalooza-0ac0b914155c

Chanos on data center

man muss II

man muss immer umkehren"

 

"man muss immer umkehren" https://t.co/ffGhWUSdEa

— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 23, 2026

Ng on this week's AI hype - anthropomorphization

 Andrew Ng writes [Sept 21, 2026] OpenAI’s buggy sandboxing and monitoring processes were key to enabling this incident. Fixing these bugs and putting in place improved monitoring would be appropriate fixes, not pausing AI. There are many well known ways to attack software systems. The main advantage of AI agents is that they are relentless. They will tirelessly try many tactics — and have the patience to chain vulnerabilities together — that previously would have taken an infeasible amount of human effort. But in the long term, I believe the advantage will lie with defenders (because they have more information with which to identify bugs, which they can fix), but the cyber-threat landscape has changed significantly. There are still bottlenecks to identifying and exploiting a vulnerability. AI agents still have to try a lot of things to see what works, and taking these actions takes time and might be detected by defenders. This is why, even though it is now easy to obtain versions of leading open weight models that have had their guardrails removed or weakened, so they will not refuse to try to execute cyber attacks, the world has not ended.

I am also concerned about the anthropomorphization of AI in a lot of reporting, where LLMs and agents are unnecessarily treated as if they were people. If I wield a hammer, miss a nail, and accidentally dent the wall, it’s not the fault of the hammer. The problem lies in how I used the hammer. Similarly, if I prompt an agent and it hacks into someone else’s system, the responsibility lies with me, not the agent.

We're Working on it.

Hitler running a frontier AI lab in SF hears about the "Car Wash Prompt" pic.twitter.com/Wpi5ouXPsK

— tuomo (@7uomoki) May 19, 2026

AI Diary Today Yesterday Tomorrow

Aug 4, 2026 -  IN THE NEWS - Fear of an AI Market Bubble: Communities worry about long-term risks if the AI boom cools down, leaving small towns stranded with empty, massive facilities or lingering environmental liabilities after companies move on or fail. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jasmine-sun.html?

Senior officials have considered a range of actions, including using sanctions, a trade blacklist against Chinese companies that make these open-source A.I. models, or even banning U.S. cloud companies from doing business with them, said five of the people, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private matters. But after an outcry from Silicon Valley, they appear to have changed their minds and instead are focused on promoting American A.I. models to be more competitive, the people said. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/technology/ai-washington-regulation-whiplash.html

    wall st shuffle -but its not a bubble today - Major U.S. stock indices surged significantly, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 achieving new all-time highs. This broad-market rally has been primarily supported by strong corporate profits and a notable rebound in the technology sector, easing earlier market anxieties.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - Ludwig Boltzmann worked on statistical mechanics using probability to describe how the properties of atoms determine the properties of matter. In particular his work relates to the Second Law of Thermodynamics which he derived from the principles of mechanics in the 1890s. This work was taken up in other spheres by Shannon, Wiener, Hopfield, others. Depressed by scientific, Boltzmann unsuccessfully attempted suicide during his time in Leipzig... https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boltzmann

quote Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. - Boltzmann Quoted in D'A W Thompson On Growth and Form (Cambridge 1917)

Boltzmann: His was the psyche of tumult. He saw what others did not, and he paid a personal price for this vision. -JV