Chris Chapman

One thing that has genuinely shocked me over the past year is how many faculty are now using LLMs for nearly every part of their jobs. Not as tools to assist their thinking, but to offload the entire job itself. 1/7

This is amazing and amazingly comprehensive

this is very "oh my god, he admit it" re the gendered dynamics around AI

Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo's Chief Economist Torsten Slok. Read more: bloom.bg/3UO2c30 📷: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

Today in bad science 🤦 "We test for the first [AI self preference] by rewriting the human reviews in the AI’s style ... we had the AI decide which review topics were relevant to each paper ... Then we had the AI judge evaluate both reviews"

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

Dear colleagues who care about procurement because it's both the problem and the solution to everything that's wrong with tech in government! Based on actual contracts, I developed a web-based strategic game.

We are hiring in the clinical program at Pitt! Pretty broad in scope (adult psychopathology), but the full ad is below. 🚨Deadline is Nov. 13th🚨 Emails for the search committee chairs are in the ad, but I'm also happy to field any questions anyone has. Please feel free to share widely.

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Every company is super into the idea that you want to have emotional dependence on your car or vacuum or toothbrush and no dudes I just want your stuff to stop bricking itself every time you release a new "shinier buttons" firmware update.

Shutting down *Bioware?* oh the games industry is in TROUBLE trouble.

Putting Synthetic Samples to the Test Thursday, October 29, 1:00 PM Pacific, 30 minutes Despite the growing availability of synthetic samples, evidence suggests such data can lead to inaccurate inferences in a variety of common survey use cases.

The Verasight team is back at one of our favorite events of the year: Quant UX Con! Join us for two research sessions, one on synthetic sampling and another on AI-moderated interviews, plus a happy hour in San Francisco:

Hell yeah, finally a chance to use this function

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

A Canadian woman who was recently detained by U.S. border agents and questioned about her voting history, died at her home in Point Roberts on Sunday. She was scared to cross the border and risk deportation or being detained again, those who knew her say.

Thread is about success in books and music, but the point is true in general "The keys to success in _____" is always a just-so story "____" can be writing, startup success, politics, tenure, executive leadership, sports, whatever. "Rising to the top" requires effort but is not explained by it.

These days, it’s easy to succumb to hopelessness. But I explain why doomerism can lead to paralysis in a new article I wrote for The Guardian The problem with doomerism isn’t necessarily that the risks are exaggerated, but that it may create a self-fulfilling prophecy and create helplessness

What went wrong with how we fund education in the US that led to us taking Social Security payments from citizens to fund student loans??!!

Another day — making a tally of roughly 800 days to 0 — when I am glad I permanently deleted my FB account years ago

No King's Day March moving north on 4th Ave. in downtown Seattle.

Anti-design is the design of use cases that appear to justify the existence of a product that was not designed to satisfy a purpose OR the design of use cases to distract from the lucrative use cases that are not good for PR 2/x

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

When I reply "stop" to spam texts ... ... I don't want another spam text saying they will now stop 🤦

I see this repeatedly with my female colleagues. They do amazing work, often far exceeding that of their male peers, yet are neither celebrated nor promoted to the same degree. I feel morally injured just witnessing it. I cannot imagine what it feels like to experience it directly.

If the system returns you as a suspect, the police may put you in a lineup. In a lineup, you will look like the culprit (that's why the AI face recognition software included you). Witnesses will be biased to pick you. We should all be worried about these systems.

Washington State has some super important initiatives to defeat: No on 645: repeals the wealth tax. No on 638: new law banning boys from girls sports, incl potential for invasive exams. No on 1: allows parental notification that could subject kids at risk to more parental harm. nohateinwastate.org

Yesterday's essay: It’s not our job to fix our employers www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/06-its-...