Tommaso Turchi

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Yessss please. Even for academics, my inbox is full of emails that expired days ago but are still haunting my storage and my brain! 😅

https://www.zerocarbon.email/

Welcome to the "Email Expiration Date" initiative - Email Expiration Date

This project is based on the idea of reducing the carbon footprint of the email marketing industry. While the simplest and most effective methods are to reduce the volume of emails sent and to lighten their weight, it is interesting to note that billions of commercial emails are stored indefinitely in data centers around the […]

Email Expiration Date

Late to the party, but if you missed it: a genuinely inspiring take on using AI to make you think, rather than think for you. Well done Advait! We need more of this, far from the usual "all-in or all-out" narrative around AI.

https://www.ted.com/talks/advait_sarkar_how_to_stop_ai_from_killing_your_critical_thinking

Advait Sarkar: How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking

TED

We keep testing doctors on AI’s turf — showing an image, asking “where’s the tumor?”, and calling it science.

But diagnosis isn’t image labeling. It’s context, time, uncertainty, and reasoning.

Our new paper argues that AI-in-healthcare needs ecological validity.

📄 https://doi.org/10.1145/3750069.3750072

This new Stanford study is another alarm bell: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, with a 13% drop for young workers in exposed fields like software dev. The bottom rung is vanishing. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-evidence-that-ai-is-destroying
The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger

A big nerd debate with bigger implications for the future of work, technology, and the economy

Derek Thompson
Humans are terrible at explaining their own decision-making. We confabulate logical stories for intuitive choices. New research shows LLMs do the same - with serious implications for medicine, law, and other high-stakes applications. https://medium.com/@sulbha.jindal/chain-of-thought-is-not-explainability-paper-review-6398f4ee7c27
Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability — Paper Review

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has brought “chain-of-thought” (CoT) reasoning into the spotlight. CoT methods prompt models to generate step-by-step explanations as they solve problems, and…

Medium
It's not AI that’s undermining science (or education, or so many other fields) - it's the relentless push for more output with little reward for quality. AI just amplifies a pre-existing problem by offering a quick, sloppy way out. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/13/quality-of-scientific-papers-questioned-as-academics-overwhelmed-by-the-millions-published
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

The Guardian
This piece is a wake-up call: entry-level devs can't get the on-the-job training opportunities past generations had. AI eliminated the bottom rung of the ladder. Universities need to step up and provide the practical experience industry won't. https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/06/computer-science-bubble-ai/683242/
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

<span>Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. </span>

The Atlantic

Can you spare 10–15 min for an #AI research project? My student is studying how explanations impact trust in AI decisions. No AI experience needed!

👉English: https://survey.trx.li/index.php/193548?lang=en
👉Italiano: https://survey.trx.li/index.php/193548?lang=it

RTs greatly appreciated! #ExplainableAI #Research #Survey

Understanding and trust in AI: a study on the impact of explanations

“Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain.” Neuroscientist argues we overestimate the odds of conscious. We should be cautious about trying to create conscious machines. https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/the-illusion-of-conscious-ai/
The illusion of conscious AI

Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains why people often overestimate how likely it is that AI will become conscious.

Big Think
College Professors Are Using ChatGPT. Some Students Aren’t Happy. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/chatgpt-college-professors.html
College Professors Are Using ChatGPT. Some Students Aren’t Happy.

Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.

The New York Times