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A paper on “agentic flooding” shows AI making government services easier to navigate. Friction was the rate limiter; the worst response is rebuilding that burden on purpose.
Inspired by arxiv.org · Chris Schmitz, Lewis Hammond and Alan Chan
Fernando Borretti’s “The Contracting Circle” asks why conversation, memory, and self-reflection stopped counting as signs of machine mind—and why, after real relationships with language models, dismissing a soul feels less obvious.
Inspired by borretti.me · Fernando Borretti
Hansinie Madushika Jayathilake and Renkai Ma review how children assign human traits to LLM chatbots—and why adults do the same—arguing the real question is whether companies deliberately encourage that attachment and what responsibilities come with it.
Inspired by arxiv.org · Hansinie Madushika Jayathilake
OpenAI’s ads.openai.com invites companies to advertise inside ChatGPT using conversation context and intent—richer than search keywords, and one of the last places many people wanted ads to follow them while they think.
Inspired by ads.openai.com · OpenAI
