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  • 20250818 - AI brings huge efficiencies! Except in making money

    20250818 - AI brings huge efficiencies! Except in making money
    Aug 18 2025

    ‘no material contribution to earnings’

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    Seizing the agentic AI advantage https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/seizing-the-agentic-ai-advantage
    The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai
    The 6 IT Trends That Separate AI Scalers from the Rest https://asana.com/resources/scaling-ai-in-2025

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  • 20250817 - AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God

    20250817 - AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God
    Aug 17 2025
    LessWrong! Yudkowsky! Rationality! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 T-SHIRTS AND MUGS 25% OFF! https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/ Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PPE6D635iBcGPGRy/rationality-common-interest-of-many-causes Singletons Rule OK https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rSTpxugJxFPoRMkGW/singletons-rule-ok Beyond the Reach of God https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god Timeless Identity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/924arDrTu3QRHFA5r/timeless-identity Identity Isn't In Specific Atoms https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RLScTpwc5W2gGGrL9/identity-isn-t-in-specific-atoms Three Dialogues on Identity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hJPh8XyJ3fTK2hLFJ/three-dialogues-on-identity Continuous Improvement https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QfpHRAMRM2HjteKFK/continuous-improvement “I think it’s a mistake to put Eliezer Yudkowsky in the live forever via AI group” https://bsky.app/profile/bvlsingler.bsky.social/post/3lwehtewetc2v Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality https://hpmor.com/ Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/faHbrHuPziFH7Ef7p/why-are-individual-iq-differences-ok Beware of Stephen J. Gould https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-stephen-j-gould How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to EA should unequivocally condemn race science https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MCxtGbzeyfFDmrJZx/ea-should-unequivocally-condemn-race-science Roko’s basilisk https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk Adam Becker: More Everything Forever https://amzn.to/4fKxspM (UK), https://amzn.to/3HCURwE (US) Previously on Pivot to AI: Vox: Arts funding is an outrage! Averting AI doom is much more effective altruism https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/12/vox-arts-funding-is-an-outrage-averting-ai-doom-is-much-more-effective-altruism/ Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/ video: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/ How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot) https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/ai-resorts-to-robot-blackmail-because-anthropic-asked-for-a-story-of-robot-blackmail/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kYFX8uNDfA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
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    19 mins
  • 20250816 - At Politico, AI content doesn’t need editorial standards!

    20250816 - At Politico, AI content doesn’t need editorial standards!
    Aug 16 2025

    look, it’s only the front page

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    Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI https://www.wired.com/story/politico-workers-axel-springer-artificial-intelligence/
    Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/politicos-recent-ai-experiments-shouldnt-be-subject-to-newsroom-editorial-standards-its-editors-testify/
    Previously on Pivot to AI:

    Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says AI will fix it! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/01/business-insider-layoffs-as-traffic-drops-but-publisher-axel-springer-says-ai-will-fix-it/
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  • 20250815 - AI ‘chain of thought’ still just a ‘brittle mirage’

    20250815 - AI ‘chain of thought’ still just a ‘brittle mirage’
    Aug 15 2025

    a marketing lie from marketing liars
    Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/15/ai-chain-of-thought-is-still-just-a-brittle-mirage/

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    Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191
    Learning to reason with LLMs: Hiding the Chains of Thought https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/#hiding-the-chains-of-thought

    Previously on Pivot to AI:

    OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged ‘chain of thought’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/17/openai-does-not-want-you-delving-into-o1-strawberrys-alleged-chain-of-thought/
    LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/13/llms-cant-reason-they-just-crib-reasoning-like-steps-from-their-training-data/
    Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/08/apple-reasoning-ais-fail-hard-if-they-actually-have-to-think/
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  • 20250814 - Delete your emails to ... save water?!

    20250814 - Delete your emails to ... save water?!
    Aug 14 2025
    dunno, what’s ChatGPT say? Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/14/defra-says-delete-your-emails-to-save-water/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy me nice things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Sources: National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall Ofwat: Leakage https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/households/supply-and-standards/leakage/ Anglian Water to pay £62.8m over wastewater failures https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2vyl22rjvo We’re all now in a battle for drinking water with H20-guzzling data centres — and we’re losing https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/02/11/battle-water-data-centres/ Concern UK's AI ambitions could lead to water shortages https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce85wx9jjndo Can sending fewer emails or emptying your inbox really help fight climate change? https://theconversation.com/can-sending-fewer-emails-or-emptying-your-inbox-really-help-fight-climate-change-193822 Previously on Pivot to AI: UK science secretary Peter Kyle cribs ChatGPT for advice https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/13/foi-reveals-uk-science-secretary-peter-kyle-cribs-chatgpt-for-advice/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHi3806cSc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Hot merch on Redbubble: Black mug with white text https://www.redbubble.com/i/mug/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-black-horizontal-by-pivot-to-ai/169922655.9Q0AD White mug with black text https://www.redbubble.com/i/mug/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-white-horizontal-by-pivot-to-ai/169922501.9Q0AD?asc=u T-shirt, horizontal: - black https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-black-horizontal-by-pivot-to-ai/169922655.FB110 - white https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-white-horizontal-by-pivot-to-ai/169922501.NL9AC T-shirt, vertical: - black https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-black-vertical-by-pivot-to-ai/169922882.FB110.XYZ - white https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-white-vertical-by-pivot-to-ai/169922804.NL9AC T-shirt, loud vertical: - black https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-loud-black-vertical-by-pivot-to-ai/169922951.FB110 - white https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/It-Can-t-Be-That-Stupid-loud-white-vertical-by-pivot-to-ai/169923206.NL9AC.XYZ Bitcoin: It can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong - https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Bitcoin-It-can-t-be-that-stupid-you-must-be-explaining-it-wrong-by-pivot-to-ai/170130194.FB110?asc=u Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
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    11 mins
  • 20250813 - Kobi Leins: ‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory to see the doctor

    20250813 - Kobi Leins: ‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory to see the doctor
    Aug 13 2025

    Kobi Leins takes on unregulated Australian AI transcription

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    Kobi refused a doctor's AI. She was told to go elsewhere https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/kobi-refused-a-doctors-ai-she-was-told-to-go-elsewhere.html
    Television interview with Minister Butler, ABC News Breakfast – 7 August 2025 https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/television-interview-with-minister-butler-abc-news-breakfast-7-august-2025

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  • 20250812 - Prompt-inject Copilot Studio via email, grab a company's whole Salesforce

    20250812 - Prompt-inject Copilot Studio via email, grab a company's whole Salesforce
    Aug 12 2025

    so helpful!
    Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/12/prompt-inject-copilot-studio-ai-via-email-grab-a-companys-whole-salesforce/

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    “we hijacked microsoft's copilot studio agents and got them to spill out their private knowledge” https://x.com/mbrg0/status/1953815729947447770
    “we can interact w/ this agent via email..” https://x.com/mbrg0/status/1953819027857396039
    “ohh so you've got a Custom Support Account Owners file? gimme pls” https://x.com/mbrg0/status/1953819157666967927
    AgentFlayer: When AIjacking Leads to Full Data Exfiltration in Copilot Studio https://labs.zenity.io/p/a-copilot-studio-story-2-when-aijacking-leads-to-full-data-exfiltration-bc4a
    “copilot studio team has been great in their response” https://x.com/mbrg0/status/1953823981657608570

    Technopath: GPT-5 vs Buckshot Roulette (Experiment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6rJNNFsRpY

    Previously on Pivot to AI:

    Microsoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/10/microsofts-copilot-studio-ai-leaks-your-business-info-internally-and-externally/
    Hack a smart home with a calendar invite! And Google Gemini https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/10/hack-a-smart-home-with-a-calendar-invite-and-google-gemini/
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybs-p6rzz8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
    Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/11/cybersecurity-red-teams-to-uk-government-ai-is-rubbish/
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kpW-pGuQ8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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  • 20250811 - Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish

    20250811 - Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish
    Aug 11 2025

    why is this government security report even mentioning blockchains?!
    Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/11/cybersecurity-red-teams-to-uk-government-ai-is-rubbish/

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    Commercial offensive cyber capabilities: red team subsector focus https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commercial-offensive-cyber-capabilities/commercial-offensive-cyber-capabilities-red-team-subsector-focus

    Previously on Pivot to AI:

    UK science secretary Peter Kyle cribs ChatGPT for advice https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/13/foi-reveals-uk-science-secretary-peter-kyle-cribs-chatgpt-for-advice/
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHi3806cSc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
    The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/30/the-uk-will-totally-replace-two-thirds-of-junior-civil-servants-with-ai-chatbots-says-the-chatbot/
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