via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:
Facing a technology that already has such immense capabilities – built on, modeled after, and in many ways now exceeding human powers – the Institute’s fundamental challenge and most important goal must be to nurture and protect our shared humanity, and to value the MIT community, its members, and their flourishing above all.
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Facebook opened its membership to anyone on this day – September 26 – in 2006.
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Many of Beijing’s tech companies are in the Zhongguancun district, a cluster of office complexes set on land that, during the imperial era, served as a burial ground for palace eunuchs. For a generation, Zhongguancun has evolved with each passing fashion in tech. These days, advertisements for A.I. products are rapidly replacing washed-out ads for the metaverse.
~ Evan Osnos via The New Yorker
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via Indiana University:
Kelley Faculty AI Playbook
by The Kelly School of Business
published in July 2025, most recently revised August 2026
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Stalin was fond of telling a story from his experience in Leipzig in 1907, when, to his astonishment, 200 German workers failed to turn up to a socialist meeting because no ticket controller was on the platform to punch their train tickets, citing this experience as proof of the hopelessness of Germanic obedience. Could anyone imagine Chinese or Americans being so obedient?
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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If someone had a credible plan for slowing down AI advances globally, I would likely support it. However, I don’t think that’s going to happen. The geopolitical and economic incentives are pushing too hard to go full speed ahead.
~ Bill Gates via Gates Notes
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