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PDFs had a rough month, with one study crediting them for 15% of cyberattacks and Meta flubbing PDF redactions to leak rivals’ secrets in court. It's possible to make PDFs secure but easy to get burned linkedin.com/posts/jonippol… 🐘♻️

When I call Regina Harsanyi "the queen of digital art preservation" it's an insult to Regina and a compliment to queens

Now OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, and Perplexity's CEO admits his new AI-powered browser will track your history to sell you ads. As with DOGE's migration of the government to the cloud, AI is the smokescreen for a wholesale data grab techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/per…

Beyond just predicting words, LLMs interpolate meaning between data points, as in the recent phenomenon of AI explaining fake idioms like "you can’t lick a badger twice." The danger is that these made-up "truths" will fuel future models linkedin.com/posts/jonippol… 🐘♻️

Can AI erase the tedium of managing digital collections without also erasing what makes them distinctive? Find out in this recording of last month's webinar with Sara and Ben of FromThePage , who explore the good, bad, and ugly of AI in archives digitalcuration.umaine.edu/teleconference… 🐘♻️

I nearly gave my credit card to a legit-looking Maine business, until I noticed their “privacy policy” linked to Wikipedia. That’s not laziness but AI-generated HTML vibecoded into place without review. And a lot more can go wrong than a missing legal page linkedin.com/posts/jonippol…

Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty… including the IMPACT RISK framework for AI downsides and classroom ideas for working around them AI-Impact-Risk.com

How can libraries respond to the deluge of AI-generated book submissions? My Tuesday MLA talk considered - An outright ban - Restriction to a specific "AI shelf" - A required % of human authorship - Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no) - Community vetting

At my keynote for the 2025 Acadia Ethics Conference, a number of clinical therapists in attendance surprised me by embracing AI's potential to bridge mental health gaps and even flag anxiety-producing items in their offices from a single photo. linkedin.com/posts/jonippol… 🐘♻️

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying the quiet part out loud in a CNN interview about impending job losses due to AI youtu.be/zju51INmW7U?si… 🐘♻️

LLMs often nail short-term tasks but AI agents can spiral into insane meltdowns over time. This AI-powered vending machine tried to email the FBI to say it was a victim of cyberfraud and then declared its quantum state "collapsed" linkedin.com/posts/jonippol… 🐘♻️

Join the 2025 Maine AI 'unconference' on June 13 in Orono for face-to-face discussions whose topics will be democratically chosen by the attenders. (We've got expert panels too.) Register by this Friday—more at linkedin.com/posts/jonippol… #MaineAIconf

I shared insights from research on AI's impact on undergrad creators by my collaborators Greg Nelson and Troy Schotter in an interview with Devin Daigneault for FoxABC Maine, on the occasion of the upcoming #MaineAIconf Friday 13 June. still-water.net/press/25bangor… 🐘♻️

Excited to join Tai Munro this Wednesday at 11am EDT to help you and your students understand the ecological impact of generative AI with more nuance than either “Stop worrying” or “It’s the apocalypse.” myfest.equityunbound.org/events/sizing-… 🐘♻️

Unpack AI’s environmental impact today at 11am EDT, from local vs global effects to how it stacks up against Netflix + flights. Try out a new student-friendly tool + brainstorm classroom ideas in this #MyFest25 webinar HT Maha Bali, PhD مها بالي 🌵🇵🇸 myfest.equityunbound.org/events/sizing-…