Christopher Wall
@cscottwall.bsky.social
PhD student researching terrorism, insurgency, and AI for national security
Hi, just want to share my latest essay that looks at AI for counterterrorism.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Ghost in the Machine: Counterterrorism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
In the aftermath of 9/11 security agencies augmented their counterterrorism (CT) apparatuses with advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their abilit...
www.tandfonline.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hi, just want to share my latest essay that looks at AI for counterterrorism.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.
Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers.
TLDR: facts
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TLDR: facts
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.
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I will never claim to "know ball," but if there's anything I feel comfortable doing in this space, it's metabolizing Russell Westbrook's ethos as a point guard across his many eras. This was my latest foray: www.theringer.com/2025/01/21/n...
Russell Westbrook Is Once Again the Most Thrilling Show in Basketball
Just when we thought we were out, Russ’s uncanny chemistry with Nikola Jokic has pulled us back in
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January 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I will never claim to "know ball," but if there's anything I feel comfortable doing in this space, it's metabolizing Russell Westbrook's ethos as a point guard across his many eras. This was my latest foray: www.theringer.com/2025/01/21/n...
RIP Professor Gerber. Was an absolute privilege studying and learning from him. Just a generous, kind, and loving person - we lost a great one.
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Burton L. Gerber, CIA officer who boosted Cold War spying, dies at 91
As CIA station chief in Moscow in the 1980s, he oversaw an operation for a trove of secret documents on Soviet military research and development.
wapo.st
January 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
RIP Professor Gerber. Was an absolute privilege studying and learning from him. Just a generous, kind, and loving person - we lost a great one.
wapo.st/4fFXE33
wapo.st/4fFXE33
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People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
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Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.
Things I Read in 2024
A Partial List of Writing on Generative AI
There has been some great critical writing about Generative AI this year. This is a long post with many quotations that tries to give a snapshot of what ...
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December 15, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.
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End the Fed at your own peril.
Alesina and Summers (1993):
Alesina and Summers (1993):
November 9, 2024 at 11:14 PM
End the Fed at your own peril.
Alesina and Summers (1993):
Alesina and Summers (1993):
I’ve been thinking a lot about these lines from Paradise Lost over the past week (Book 3, lines 111-125)
November 9, 2024 at 11:50 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about these lines from Paradise Lost over the past week (Book 3, lines 111-125)
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In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
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ORIENTATION
FACT SHEET
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreigaks7wgy4rvmszhobeed7hlaqap4mynkhqketipzolmesislssci@jpeg)
August 1, 2024 at 9:35 PM
In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.