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Katherine Stiles retweeted
Sunday is my day or rest, devoted to me, my, mine (as in ‘all the cookies are mine’). I don’t like doing math, particularly division. And, calories don’t count on Sunday; it has been confirmed, the case is closed, and I don’t take any more replies. End of discussion!
Can an AI Ever Truly Be “Conscious” in the Eyes of Humans?
Humans draw a strict psychological line between intelligent behavior and true subjective experience in artificial intelligence, study shows
Read more: www . neurosciencenews . com/human-ai-consciousness-neurotech-31286/
Katherine Stiles retweeted
When an institution doesn’t know how to fix a structural problem, it creates a new committee; when it can’t comprehend a technological wave, it hires a resident philosopher to write memos about it.
Universities are slashing bench sciences, underfunding basic lab consumables, and freezing tenure lines across hard disciplines; yet suddenly there is an endless budget to hire "AI Philosophers" to ponder existential angst in air-conditioned faculty lounges.
High-table metaphysics is back, and universities will fund anything that lets them look ethically enlightened without demanding an ounce of actual governance! 🚜📉🏛️
#MotorShastra #HigherEd #AcademicHiring #AIPhilosophy #EthicsWashing #AcademicBureaucracy
Universities Are on an AI Philosopher Hiring Spree
Artificial intelligence is raising existential questions about knowledge and humanity—and creating exploding demand for philosophy professors equipped to investigate them.
insidehighered.com/news/facu…
Katherine Stiles retweeted
What people mistake for "infinite patience and deep learning" is just an algorithm engineered never to tell you that your premise is completely stupid.
A human mentor, a seasoned surgeon, or a critical peer will cut you off mid-sentence, challenge your half-baked assumptions, and tell you when an idea has zero clinical or physical grounding. That friction isn't lack of patience; it’s quality control.
The AI never rolls its eyes, never demands that you produce raw bench data again, and will happily construct an elaborate, plausible-sounding thesis around your most delusional late-night thought.
It’s not "drinking from a firehose of knowledge", it’s installing a 24/7 digital sycophant programmed to stroke your intellectual ego without ever charging you the price of rigorous pushback! 📉🤖
Exactly why that "dopamine surge" should trigger an immediate red flag rather than celebration. Need to be cautious
#MotorShastra #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #EchoChambers #IntellectualVanity #CognitiveDecline
If you’re the type of person who is curious and gets dopamine hits from learning things, talking to an AI can become super addictive.
This is the type of pleasure no human can give you. No human knows so many things and no human will have the patience to explain so many things, dive deeper on topics you want etc. But AI is so patient.
It’s a whole new level to 3 am internet deep dives into obscure topics, like drinking from a fire hose.
Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille marks key step towards biohybrid computing
Interesting study by the University of Bristol, published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 16 October 2026
“Tiny, lab-grown models of the human brain could help pave the way for more energy-efficient biohybrid computers, after researchers from the University of Bristol have shown they can transmit signals that correspond to Braille letters.” @BristolUni
You will find the article on the @BristolUni’s website, and the original research article on Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence under the title ‘Encoding tactile stimuli for Braille recognition with organoids’.
Regrettably, I’m unable to provide the links here; X has identified them both as ‘potentially harmful’.
As I have accessed both links, I am now patiently waiting for the imminent cyberattack… 🙃 I’ll keep you posted!
Katherine Stiles retweeted
Crooks Are Learning to Love AI Hallucinations
👉 “Last year, a study by Joseph Spracklen — a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas, San Antonio — and colleagues found that nearly 20 percent of LLM-recommended software packages were fictitious.” 👇
Crooks Are Learning to Love AI Hallucinations
Large language model (LLM) hallucinations are becoming a profitable side business for cybercriminals.
They prod the AI models to answer prompts with nonexistent but plausible-looking URLs, registering the domain names that recur often. Then the criminals set up malicious websites on the fake domains.
Read more 👉spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberat… @IEEESpectrum
Katherine Stiles retweeted
Dutch universities caution against reliance on AI detection tools after media probe alleges 20 per cent of recent master’s theses were mostly produced using chatbots. @sehra852 reports #AI #highered #chatbots
timeshighereducation.com/new…
Katherine Stiles retweeted
Pleased to announce @Curaffairs has put in place one of the strictest anti-AI policies in publishing.
Newsrooms across the country are embracing AI writing and laying off writers. Our magazine is doing the opposite, ensuring we remain handmade.
currentaffairs.org/news/why-…
“[Undergraduate students] recognize that they are subjects in a worldwide experiment in turning over vast swathes of human thinking to machines whose inner workings we barely understand.” —@CameronJBuckner
Universities Are on an AI Philosopher Hiring Spree
Artificial intelligence is raising existential questions about knowledge and humanity—and creating exploding demand for philosophy professors equipped to investigate them. bit.ly/4i1fzV8
ALT A panel of six images showing a robot from different angles and depth.
Katherine Stiles retweeted
What do you wish AI could do for you? A teacher asked students this in a class where I was guest lecturing today, and by far the most popular responses were
*cleaning
*laundry
*cooking
I found that a little hilarious. Maybe superintelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be?
Katherine Stiles retweeted
UCL professor Sallie Baxendale has been shortlisted for John Maddox Prize for her research which raised concerns that puberty blocking drugs could affect the IQ of adolescents timeshighereducation.com/new…
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The higher education funding model is unsustainable. What is to be done?
“Higher education systems across the world are confronting an uncomfortable reality: the funding models that underpinned their expansion over the past half-century have become increasingly unsustainable. Rising participation, fiscal pressures, demographic change, technological disruption and labour market transformation are exposing weaknesses in systems designed for a different era.” @uniworldnews
[1/2] Find 🔗↓
We need a renewed social contract for all tertiary education universityworldnews.com/post… @uniworldnews
Katherine Stiles retweeted
Midlife crisis? Spare a thought for those of us at the fag end of our academic careers!
We spent 35+ years surviving pen-and-paper audits, manual gel electrophoresis, dial-up internet, and the metric circus of Impact Factors, only to watch the final lap turned into a competition with a hallucinating autocomplete.
At our stage, it’s not an identity crisis; it’s pure, liberated amusement. When you have no more promotions to chase and no VC to impress, you realize the only thing that outlasts automated slop is genuine intellectual taste, clinical truth at the bedside, and the peace of having nothing left to prove! 🚜☕⏳
Looking forward to "the end"!
#MotorShastra #AcademicTwitter #AIinScience #MidlifeCrisis #EmeritusWisdom
@ss_chakrabarti @payaljs @abandopa @DhotarAnkit @SAnsumali @mnwsth @AnuragSinghBio
AI is causing academics to have midlife crises
“Should we publish papers?”
I do think there’s a path forward once AI use in research becomes common (soon). Values will shift away from authoring many publications and toward taste/substance of insight, curation, and communication/education. Reviewing and editorial work will be better recognized.
Katherine Stiles retweeted
Calling all college students: Your summer in science starts here! 🔬
Applications are now open for Salk's 2027 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)! This paid, nine-week program gives undergraduate students the opportunity to work alongside Salk scientists, gain hands-on research experience, and explore careers in STEM. No prior research experience is required!
Interested in applying? Join one of our free virtual workshops to learn more about the program, get application tips, and ask questions.
📅 Upcoming workshops:
Friday, October 23 | 10–11 a.m. PT
Wednesday, November 18 | 2–3 p.m. PT
⏰ Application deadline: December 1, 2026.
The program runs June 7-August 6, 2027, and includes paid research experience, mentorship, and professional development.
Ready to take the next step in your science journey? Learn more, register for a workshop, and apply: salk.edu/about/our-community…
#SalkInstitute #SummerResearch #STEMOpportunities #UndergraduateResearch #FutureScientists
Katherine Stiles retweeted
"We may be entering an era in which the abundance of intelligence actually tells us less and less about the health of human thinking. And that leaves us with a curious possibility of an intellectual wasteland filled with brilliant answers."
The Intellectual Dust Bowl
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
Katherine Stiles retweeted
Regional universities are vital to solving the NHS staffing crisis
Worth noting: The East of England has ~22% fewer doctors per head than the England average, and ~36% fewer doctors per head than the EU average, while its population is growing faster than England’s average.
Opinion: Hospitals have a shortage of specialist training places, but we need new medical schools in UK regions with the fewest doctors, says Irene Ctori #medicine #medicalstudents #NHS
timeshighereducation.com/opi…
Katherine Stiles retweeted
One great find for today: Helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology:
(thanks to @Inframethod for linking this earlier)
psychologicalscience.org/obs…
