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Weekly Review 13 June 2025
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):The data-hungry nature of AI means people are struggling with managing the data it needs: https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/04/tech-leaders-struggling-to-store-ai-data-never-mind-manage-it-research-shows/AI are tools, not co-workers, despite the anthropomorphizing language used by marketers: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/for-the-love-of-god-stop-calling-your-ai-a-co-worker/AI should improve efficiency and productivity, but how do you measure this? https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-measure-ai-efficiency-and-productivity-gainsLike every other piece of software, a rushed AI is likely to be less-than-good in its quality: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/fda-rushed-out-agency-wide-ai-tool-its-not-going-well/English speakers are most nervous about the rise of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/english-speaking-countries-more-nervous-about-rise-of-ai-polls-suggest Perhaps because most AI use English the most?A vulnerability is being kept alive by AI generated code: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/llm_kept_persistent_path_traversal_bug_alive/I'm not sure how I feel about Google's AI summarising my emails. I'd prefer to read them myself: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/05/the-gmail-app-will-now-create-ai-summaries-whether-you-want-them-or-not/A lack of training leads to a mistrust of AI amongst users: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999619/do-you-trust-ai-heres-why-half-of-users-dont.htmlYoshua Bengio is also calling out the dangers of AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/godfather-of-ai-calls-out-latest-models-for-lying-to-users/An AI tool to help amateurs write opinion columns: https://www.theverge.com/news/679332/washington-post-opinion-pieces-ai-tool-emberWe still need human programmers who know how to program, not just give prompts to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/vibe_coding_raspberry_pi/AI adoption is a people problem more than a tech problem, according to a framework from the UK government: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4002450/uks-new-ai-framework-puts-culture-before-code.htmlA ten year freeze on AI regulation is too long: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/in-10-years-all-bets-are-off-anthropic-ceo-opposes-decade-long-freeze-on-state-ai-laws/When an AI fails, the user is responsible: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998202/when-ai-fails-who-is-to-blame.htmlIndustries that can use AI better show higher wage growth compared with those industries that cannot adopt AI as easily: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/ai_productivity_pwc/Are law clerks using AI to write legal briefs because they've become used to using AI in their studies? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/law-clerk-fired-over-chatgpt-use-after-firms-filing-used-ai-hallucinations/Ways to convince management of the value of AI: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-convince-management-colleagues-that-ai-isn-t-a-passing-fadAI chatbots do not improve productivity for most workers: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998244/ai-chatbots-see-fast-adoption-but-deliver-minimal-productivity-gains-study-finds.htmlA new architecture for analog AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/analog-ai-chip-architectureIt's legal to use AI driven face recognition in New Zealand, as long as there's a good reason for it: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/563010/privacy-commissioner-inquiry-finds-supermarket-facial-recognition-tech-s-use-is-justifiedMoves in the UK to make it legal for AI companies to use copyrighted material to train their AI are stalling: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/ministers-offer-concessions-ai-copyright-avoid-fifth-lords-defeatThe tricks AI chatbots use to keep you chatting to them: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/how-ai-chatbots-keep-you-chatting/An AI learned to cheat its way around measures of its hallucinations: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/self_improving_ai_cheat/AI companies continue to scrape training data from websites, whether they are allowed to or not: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/reddit-sues-anthropic-over-ai-scraping-that-retained-users-deleted-posts/
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- The data-hungry nature of AI means people are struggling with managing the data it needs: https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/06/04/tech-leaders-struggling-to-store-ai-data-never-mind-manage-it-research-shows/
- AI are tools, not co-workers, despite the anthropomorphizing language used by marketers: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/for-the-love-of-god-stop-calling-your-ai-a-co-worker/
- AI should improve efficiency and productivity, but how do you measure this? https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-measure-ai-efficiency-and-productivity-gains
- Like every other piece of software, a rushed AI is likely to be less-than-good in its quality: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/fda-rushed-out-agency-wide-ai-tool-its-not-going-well/
- English speakers are most nervous about the rise of AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/english-speaking-countries-more-nervous-about-rise-of-ai-polls-suggest Perhaps because most AI use English the most?
- A vulnerability is being kept alive by AI generated code: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/llm_kept_persistent_path_traversal_bug_alive/
- I'm not sure how I feel about Google's AI summarising my emails. I'd prefer to read them myself: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/05/the-gmail-app-will-now-create-ai-summaries-whether-you-want-them-or-not/
- A lack of training leads to a mistrust of AI amongst users: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999619/do-you-trust-ai-heres-why-half-of-users-dont.html
- Yoshua Bengio is also calling out the dangers of AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/godfather-of-ai-calls-out-latest-models-for-lying-to-users/
- An AI tool to help amateurs write opinion columns: https://www.theverge.com/news/679332/washington-post-opinion-pieces-ai-tool-ember
- We still need human programmers who know how to program, not just give prompts to AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/vibe_coding_raspberry_pi/
- AI adoption is a people problem more than a tech problem, according to a framework from the UK government: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4002450/uks-new-ai-framework-puts-culture-before-code.html
- A ten year freeze on AI regulation is too long: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/in-10-years-all-bets-are-off-anthropic-ceo-opposes-decade-long-freeze-on-state-ai-laws/
- When an AI fails, the user is responsible: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998202/when-ai-fails-who-is-to-blame.html
- Industries that can use AI better show higher wage growth compared with those industries that cannot adopt AI as easily: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/ai_productivity_pwc/
- Are law clerks using AI to write legal briefs because they've become used to using AI in their studies? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/law-clerk-fired-over-chatgpt-use-after-firms-filing-used-ai-hallucinations/
- Ways to convince management of the value of AI: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-convince-management-colleagues-that-ai-isn-t-a-passing-fad
- AI chatbots do not improve productivity for most workers: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998244/ai-chatbots-see-fast-adoption-but-deliver-minimal-productivity-gains-study-finds.html
- A new architecture for analog AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/analog-ai-chip-architecture
- It's legal to use AI driven face recognition in New Zealand, as long as there's a good reason for it: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/563010/privacy-commissioner-inquiry-finds-supermarket-facial-recognition-tech-s-use-is-justified
- Moves in the UK to make it legal for AI companies to use copyrighted material to train their AI are stalling: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/ministers-offer-concessions-ai-copyright-avoid-fifth-lords-defeat
- The tricks AI chatbots use to keep you chatting to them: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/how-ai-chatbots-keep-you-chatting/
- An AI learned to cheat its way around measures of its hallucinations: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/self_improving_ai_cheat/
- AI companies continue to scrape training data from websites, whether they are allowed to or not: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/reddit-sues-anthropic-over-ai-scraping-that-retained-users-deleted-posts/
