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You are building a pinball machine for words
Eryk Salvaggio, quoted in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and cited in a Tech Policy Press essay, describing how LLM systems are designed to let language interact and trigger unpredictable behavior.
Tech Policy PressIn the AI Era, Language is Now an Attack Surface
Language itself is now the attack surface
Matthew Kirschenbaum, in a Tech Policy Press essay on AI agents and the Hugging Face incident, argues that natural language has become an executable attack vector.
Tech Policy PressIn the AI Era, Language is Now an Attack Surface
Committed to protecting Nvidia and supporting America's national security
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang commented after reports that he had been in a relationship with an alleged Chinese spy, amid scrutiny of Nvidia's chip exports to China.
BBC NewsTrump says FBI investigating Nvidia boss's affair with alleged Chinese spy - BBC
If you can now verify the correctness of these implementations, then you can rest easy
Pushmeet Kohli, chief scientist at Google Cloud and DeepMind's VP of research, on the promise of AI-driven formal verification, in WIRED, November 2026.
WIREDA New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure
MediaNama founder Nikhil Pahwa, questioning how India's synthetic media rules define realism, in response to a Delhi HC order on AI-generated political videos, November 2026.
Use SI to mimic the CEO's voice and/or image
Federal prosecutors' press release describes how fraudsters used 'SI' (their term for AI) to impersonate company executives on calls, in a $129 million fraud case.
There are some who seek to use this emerging technology to pursue criminal goals
US Attorney Jamie McDonald commenting on the indictment of three men accused of using AI voice cloning to defraud companies of $129 million, November 2026.
We aren't just giving our future away, lose all of our autonomy
Andrew Garfield speaking at a Q&A for the film 'Artificial' about AI, power and regulation, Los Angeles, November 2026.
Chris Klomp, nominee for deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, described AI in patient care as the agency's aim for improving national health, quoted in a STAT opinion piece, November 2026.
STATOpinion: AI’s health advice can be accurate and still make us sicker
From a STAT opinion essay by behavioral scientist Jessica Fishman and anthropologist John L. Jackson Jr. arguing that AI health advice can be accurate yet behaviorally harmful.
STATOpinion: AI’s health advice can be accurate and still make us sicker
Court Shuller, a middle school teacher, reacting skeptically to a research project testing whether AI tools can quickly evaluate teachers' noticing skills.
edsurge.comCan AI Tell How Well Teachers Notice? Researchers Are Testing It. - EdSurge
You're losing that human element, like the feelings or picking up on body language
Molly Fisher, a Rowan University education professor studying whether AI can assess teachers' 'professional noticing,' describing concerns some educators have about using AI for this evaluation.
edsurge.comCan AI Tell How Well Teachers Notice? Researchers Are Testing It. - EdSurge
We might call it a robotosphere
From a 2016 NASA paper on bootstrapping a self-replicating robotic industry on the Moon and across the solar system, cited in Import AI.
Phrase used by U.S. Health and Human Services officials to frame AI's role in medical decision-making, criticized by major medical groups.
KUOWWhy doctors are having ‘the talk’ with patients about safe AI use
The way you actually accelerate technology adoption in medicine is you de-risk it substantially
Graham Walker, an emergency room physician who organized the Physicians' Charter for Responsible AI, discussing how medicine should adopt AI technology safely.
KUOWWhy doctors are having ‘the talk’ with patients about safe AI use
This is a flight to quality, not a collapse
Azeem Azhar, in his Exponential View newsletter on November 10, 2026, commenting on turbulence in AI markets after a tech stock selloff.
The age of the atomized individual and the age of hyperconnectivity coexist
Kim Soo-yoon, flutist and author of 'Humanity in the AI Era,' speaking about her book and cultural salon Soo House, November 2026.
Seoul Economic Daily19 Voices Ask What It Means to Be Human in the AI Era
We have more reason to think that an ant is conscious than an agentic AI is
Philosopher Tom Cochrane, writing in The Conversation (2026), argues agentic AI systems lack genuine goals and therefore cannot be conscious.
The ConversationDo AI agents have minds? A philosopher explains
This is another chip off that massive ice block
Rob Pownall, founder of Protect The Wild, commenting on prospects for the anti-data center protest at Google's Thurrock site, November 2026.
WIREDBikers and Bug-Lovers Join Forces to Fight a New Google Data Center
People are angry about data centers turning up in their back gardens
Jamie Robins of wildlife trust Buglife, speaking at a London protest against Google's planned data center in Thurrock, November 2026.
WIREDBikers and Bug-Lovers Join Forces to Fight a New Google Data Center
Our investments are paying off, the core business is strong
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg commenting on the company's AI spending amid negative quarterly free cash flow, November 2026.
PYMNTS.comBig Tech Faces Tougher Scrutiny of AI Spending After Selloff
China has no guardrails, by the way
Trump, on 60 Minutes in November 2026, argued against AI safety guardrails by citing competition with China.
The idea that we can build something meaningful without owning the foundations
Arthur Mensch, chief executive of Mistral, in an interview with Politico, on Europe's dependence on foreign AI models.
You don't have to make an appointment, you don't have to go sit in a waiting room
Michael Heinz, psychiatrist at Dartmouth, on why AI chatbots can lower barriers to men seeking mental health support, in a 2026 STAT article.
STATAI chatbots aren’t therapists. But can they finally get men to open up?
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What's hot
The themes the world is arguing about right now, ranked by heat and updated every day.
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The people on the wall
The builders 28Founders, CEOs, the people who run the labs
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Meredith Whittaker and 22 more
The researchers 50Scientists, professors, the people who publish
Gary Marcus, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, Jaron Lanier, Stuart Russell, Ethan Mollick and 44 more
The politicians 11Heads of state, ministers, lawmakers, regulators
Donald Trump, David Sacks, Bernie Sanders, Michael Kratsios, Vladimir Putin, Jay Jones and 5 more
The writers 11Journalists, authors, critics, newsletter voices
Nathan Lambert, Zvi Mowshowitz, Fritz Espenlaub, Cory Doctorow, Ted Chiang, Charles Gasparino and 5 more
The investors 7Venture capital, analysts, those who price it
Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Beth Ann Bovino, Dan Simkowitz, Francisco Jeronimo, Matt Murphy and 1 more
The thinkers 24Philosophers, theologians, ethicists, historians
Pope Leo XIV, Yuval Noah Harari, Nick Bostrom, Shannon Vallor, Pope Francis, Carissa Véliz and 18 more
The makers 5Artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors, designers
Zelda Williams, Giacomo Miceli, Michel Gondry, Natasha Lyonne, Sean Ono Lennon
Everyone Else 141Without a listed role
Joe Carlsmith, Erik Hoel, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Norbert Wiener, Rodney Brooks and 135 more
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