A quick little post on the toaster as a metaphor resisting the dominant metaphor of rogue AI #AI #metaphor #AIMetaphorObservatory #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...

A quick little post on the toaster as a metaphor resisting the dominant metaphor of rogue AI #AI #metaphor #AIMetaphorObservatory #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...
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Satya Nadella wants an AI "emergency brake" to stop models mid-task.
But a brake stops the agent, not what it already wrote. In the Hugging Face incident, the messages outlived the agents.
To understand AI autonomy, follow the writing.
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Spoke with VCU News about an invited chapter I wrote on the TESCREAL rationalists.
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TIME’s reporting on Muse prompted the question at the centre of the essay: when an AI learns which nudges “work,” what counts as success?
I have finished my new book, a sociological approach to GenAI, and it will be out in about 6 months. And it will be open access! More details, including chapter abstracts, are here
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