What Do You Want to Know?
Artificial Intelligence
By “Artificial Intelligence,” I mean the tech currently (in 2025) being called “AI” – ChatGPT and other LLM chatbots and AI that generates images, like Midjourney or music. This page is where I’ll be collecting articles that I’m chewing on about the subject. I’m grouping the links I’ve collected into rough topical clusters.
Authorship
- Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT: Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
- Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not An Essay and this interview with its author: ChatGPT repeatedly lied about helping this writer. Some commenters said it was her fault
Data Centers Are a Problem On Multiple Fronts
- Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor
- A.I. Is on the Rise, and So Is the Environmental Impact of the Data Centers That Drive It
- Data centers’ air pollution associated with lung issues: Report“
- Harvard Science Review: The Physical Limits of AI Intelligence: The Collision Course With The Law of Thermodynamics (Part I)
- Harvard Science Review: Re-Architecting the AI Server: The Hidden Water Cost of Data Centers (Part II)
- I Asked an AI Chatbot for My Data. I Didn’t Expect a Psychological Profile
Who Watches the Watchers?
- The Oppenheimer Principle revisited
“the big social media companies know just how much damage their platforms are doing, especially to teenage girls, but they do not care.”
Chatbot/AI Psychosis
- Chatbot Psychosis (Wikipedia)
- The Emerging Problem of “AI Psychosis”: Amplifications of delusions by AI chatbots may be worsening breaks with reality. (Psychology Today)
- New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good (Futurism)
- Psychiatrists Hope Chat Logs Can Reveal the Secrets of AI Psychosis (UCSF)