I hope that no #AI gets pissed off with me for #AISkepticism and for writing posts about #aifailures. Not to mention my previous work about #AIdiscrimination ...

Artificial Intelligence controls are coming to Firefox, and Mozilla is clearly courting the AI-skeptics

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/firefox-ai-controls/

Caltech: New Study Examines Gender Differences in Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Risk. “A new study, which draws on survey data from approximately 3,000 respondents in the United States and Canada, finds that women, on average, exhibit greater skepticism toward artificial intelligence (AI) technologies than men. Analysis suggests that differences in risk orientation and exposure help […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/21/caltech-new-study-examines-gender-differences-in-perceptions-of-artificial-intelligence-risk/
Caltech: New Study Examines Gender Differences in Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Risk

Caltech: New Study Examines Gender Differences in Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Risk. “A new study, which draws on survey data from approximately 3,000 respondents in the United Stat…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
Broadcom’s renewed AI skepticism triggered a sharp sell-off, but analysts say the real risk is a “triple weakness” in South Korea’s markets as long-term bond yields threaten further declines in stocks, bonds, and the won.
#YonhapInfomax #Broadcom #AISkepticism #TripleWeakness #LongTermBondYields #IMSecurities #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=95435
Broadcom-Driven AI Bearish Sentiment Differs from November—“Triple Weakness Is the Bigger Concern”

Broadcom’s renewed AI skepticism triggered a sharp sell-off, but analysts say the real risk is a “triple weakness” in South Korea’s markets as long-term bond yields threaten further declines in stocks, bonds, and the won.

Yonhap Infomax

Aside: you can tell the AI productivity boom isn't materializing when GitHub, a company that is aggressively rolling out fancy AI bots to assist with development, isn't using said AI bots to detect obvious duplicate security advisory entries based on text similarity comparison (something LLMs should be good at), nor automatically review PRs removing obvious duplicate entries.

#aiskeptic #aiskepticism #aipartypooper

Hello! Are you a technologist/software person that lives in the #Seattle area? Are you also an AI skeptic ? Would you like to give a talk on the subject at a local meetup? If so I can get you in front of an audience at the meetup I help run, Puget Sound Programming Python, aka PuPPy. Please reach out. Boosts welcome.

#AISkepticism #NeoLuddite

#DonaldKnuth's #20QuestionsForAI and what they reveal about how far #AI has come and has yet to go.

https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

#AISkepticism