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Civil Eats: “December 4, 2025 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Monday that it has deployed a version of artificial intelligence called “agentic AI” for “all agency employees” to assist with complex tasks, including safety reviews, inspections, and compliance. While the release did not specifically mention food safety, the agency is responsible …
PopSci: “…To help raise awareness to just how bad it’s gotten, environmental engineer and artist Tega Brain created Slop Evader. After installing the extension on Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, users can employ it to search pre-AI archives on a handful of websites including Reddit and YouTube. “This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with …
The Atlantic – Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize – “The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. After three years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of generative AI, colleges are now scrambling to do too much. …
NOTUS – “For the low price of $1 million, you can apply for a new card that comes with exclusive perks and is marketed with a sleek website featuring an animated bald eagle standing before sunlit mountains. It has all the markings of a website selling a luxury travel credit card. But it’s not. It’s …
MakeUseOf: “…digiKam is a free, open-source app that’s available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. No monthly fees, no paywalled features, no cloud lock-in, just free software that actually works. It doesn’t force your photos into a predetermined structure like Lightroom’s collections model. Instead, digiKam works alongside your existing folder structure. Your photos can be stored …
Not ready for the bench: LLM legal interpretation is unstable and out of step with human judgments (Purushothama, Waldon, Schneider, 2025): “Legal interpretation frequently involves assessing how a legal text, as understood by an órdinary’ speaker of the language, applies to the set of facts characterizing a legal dispute in the U.S. judicial system. Recent …
The Verge – Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic – “…Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, …
Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, November 30, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …
Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) and Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 2) Four Part Series by Tanya Thomas [forthcoming] – Part 1 examines how we’re training a generation of lawyers who rarely …
Christopher Butler – “After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the point of catastrophe. The best case scenario is that AI is just not as valuable as those who invest in it, make it, and sell it …
404 Media: “It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content-slop. Just over a year ago, you’d have to peruse certain corners of Facebook or spend time wading through the cultural cesspool of Elon Musk’s X to find people posting bizarre and …
Above the Law – “Sure, becoming an ICE agent sounds fun, but in between all the tear-gassing of clergy and shooting pepper balls at journalists, the job involves a lot of pesky paperwork. I mean, the government simply doesn’t pay enough with its [checks notes] $50,000 signing bonus, 25 percent premium pay, and $60,000 in …
