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Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust

Damien P. Williams

So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less they hew to factual reality. Which: Yeah. A bunch of us told you this. Again: the Purpose of LLM- type “AI” is...

Patriarchal Panic: Reactionary Machismo, Zero-Sum Politics, and Radicalisation

Stijn Vogels

Like many well-meaning, left-leaning, oat-milk-drinking adults, my partner and I watched Netflix’s Adolescence with the fascinated dread of watching a gender implode in real time. The insecure man, afraid of losing his crown, therefore doubles down on his dominant behaviour. At the heart of it...