Bryan Alexander has been watching teens and universities and how they use technology. Here is his latest update on social media.
I’m guessing hte federated media (Mastadon and Bluesky mostly) are too small to figure here. Hopefully that will change.
Category: Technology
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Kids on Screens
Huge (600 pp) trove of research on children’s (toddler to adolescent) use of digital screens. Open Source (free to download) too. From Springer. Handbook of Children on Screens.
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Liar, liar, pants on AI
“The paper adds to a small but growing body of evidence that today’s most advanced AI models are becoming capable of strategic deception.”
From Time Magazine, 3 days before publication of the article. Is this interpretation inflammatory or just exaggerated?
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Seaweed for Cows
Got too much red algae? Feed it to the cows. It reduces methane by 40%.
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AI Whistleblower Dead
US media is not following this development in AI. A whistleblower from OpenAI who recently left the company is found dead. Police say it is suicide, but it is not revealed for more than a week. And it takes the BBC to report on it before it makes news in the US.
NYTimes interviewed him a few weeks ago, but has not printed anything about his death yet. Mysterious.
