Weekly AI news roundup

Weekly, designed as an agent-harness pipeline, published to Ghost after his editorial pass. Two editorial lenses: a defensible theory of mind critical of anthropomorphising AI; and the ideologies, goals and funding of the factions driving the tech narrative, treated as plural rather than monolithic. Each roundup ends with an annotated bibliography that accumulates. Its bibliography is a legitimate input to this wiki's sources.

Live: re-check with James before relying on this.

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The theory-of-mind lens is argued in ai-risk-as-runaway-it; dark-discourse is the same critique applied to design.

Source: James's notes at exitmusic.world (read 2026-10-26); his own position, disposition stated.

Provenance: James, in conversation with Claude, Sept 2026 (unverified). Disposition: live.

Related: harness-idiom

Part of thread: thread-mind-and-machine