Tootfinder

A look at Anthropic's societal impacts team, which broadly studies AI's impacts and finds and publishes "inconvenient truths", building on most AI safety teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything
Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic.

A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/business/media/artificial-intelligence-death-threats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.s4-q.Slb8Z52_E…

A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.

Intelligence artificielle, données, calculs : quelles infrastructures dans un monde décarboné ?
Publication du rapport final
The Shift Project
https://theshiftproject.org/publications/intelligence-artificielle-centres-de-donnees…

Intelligence artificielle, données, calculs : le rapport final du Shift - The Shift Project
Le projet Atlas 2050 propose une nouvelle approche pour éclairer les décisions liées à la transition énergétique et climatique des territoires : anticiper les dépendances et les risques de conflits d’usage de ressources physiques sur les territoires à l’horizon 2050 pour guider l’action aujourd’hui, à toutes les échelles territoriales, dans un contexte de transition climatique et énergétique.

Google is conducting a small test for some Discover users, replacing original news headlines with short AI-generated ones that are sometimes misleading or inane (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intell…

Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Google Discover, the company’s smartphone news feed, is experimenting with AI headlines. Many of them are very bad.

[OT] Sam Altman is suddenly terrified #OpenAI declares 'Code Red' as

Sam Altman Is Suddenly Terrified
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a "code red" in a memo to employees this week, three years after Google's CEO did.

What a world.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Canadian Energy Innovation Call for Proposals
https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/artificial-intelligence-canadian-energy-innovation

Artificial phantasia: Evidence for propositional reasoning-based mental imagery in large language models https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23108 on the representation of visual imagery in humans; more information in the Bluesky thread

Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models
This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in their training data and can be accomplished solely using natural language, limiting our understanding of their emergent sophisticated cognitive capacities. In this work, we created dozens of novel items of a classic mental imagery task from cognitive psychology. A task which, traditionally, cognitive…

Online harassers are using AI tools to create more realistic death threats, posting hyper-realistic AI-generated images and sounds to social media platforms (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people? https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/advpub/0/advpub_2025.01341/_article

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people?
Implantable artificial retinas have been a considerable technology to help blind people recover their sight. This topic has attracted increasing atten …

Wish the #NeuroAI modeling people could say something meaningful about learning to see with sound (visual-to-auditory sensory substitution). Digital twin? https://www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm…