Richard Poynder

@RickyPo

Independent journalist & blogger commenting on university issues (especially academic freedom), and on AI. Posts/Reposts are not endorsements. @rickypo.bsky.soc

Joined February 2009

247Following

9KFollowers

Pinned

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Nov 25, 2023

I’m signing off from reporting on open access. The movement has failed and is being rebranded in order to obscure the failure. Time to move on.

66.0K

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · 15 h

Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests science.org/content/articl…

RickyPo's tweet card. Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · 15 h

UN head calls for more green energy projects, fearing AI capacity limits semafor.com/article/07/22/…

RickyPo's tweet card. As AI data centers sprout up, concerns are mounting over where the energy to power them comes from, and how to pay for it.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · 16 h

Artificial intelligence and clinical trials: a framework for effective adoption thelancet.com/journals/landi…

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · 16 h

Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions theguardian.com/science/2025/j…

RickyPo's tweet card. Program Aeneas, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historians

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · 16 h

Trump administration's new artificial intelligence plan focuses on deregulation, beating China abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…

RickyPo's tweet card. The White House on Wednesday released its promised "AI Action Plan," a sweeping agenda aimed at promoting the United States' dominance in artificial intelligence.

111

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · 16 h

FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up studies edition.cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…

RickyPo's tweet card. Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is getting better, and use is not mandatory.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · 16 h

Tech companies want to move fast. Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ aims to cut ‘red tape’ latimes.com/business/story…

RickyPo's tweet card. The plan, unveiled Wednesday, shows how the Trump administration is taking a different approach to tech regulation than his predecessor.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 25

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? kqed.org/news/12049420/…

RickyPo's tweet card. The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Why evaluating the impact of AI needs to start now nature.com/articles/d4158…

RickyPo's tweet card. Nature - Artificial-intelligence technologies are being deployed rapidly across industries, yet most organizations lack even basic guidelines to assess the tools’ effects.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

More people are considering AI lovers, and we shouldn’t judge theconversation.com/more-people-ar…

RickyPo's tweet card. As AI-powered chatbots become more popular, AI-human relationships are a new and growing phenomenon.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change course theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

RickyPo's tweet card. Technology happens because people make it happen. We can choose otherwise

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Researchers use AI to analyse cosmic explosions youtube.com/watch?v=ArauDR…

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Generative AI is coming to the workplace, so I designed a business technology class with AI baked in theconversation.com/generative-ai-…

RickyPo's tweet card. Generative AI is in the workplace already, so students should learn how to use it. But an early experiment shows generative AI is different than learning previous business apps.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Google’s newest Gemini 2.5 model aims for ‘intelligence per dollar’ artificialintelligence-news.com/news/googles-n…

RickyPo's tweet card. Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a model designed for developers who need to build things at scale without breaking the bank.

184

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Columbia disciplines dozens of students for pro-Palestinian library protest reuters.com/legal/governme…

RickyPo's tweet card. Columbia University said on Tuesday it was disciplining dozens of pro-Palestinian student protesters who seized part of the school's main library during a demonstration in early May that led to...

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Depoliticising the academy thecritic.co.uk/depoliticising…

RickyPo's tweet card. The final guidance was issued by the Office for Students on 19 June 2025 for implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. This guidance is effective from 1 August 2025.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Left-leaning Third Way maps counter plan to Trump’s AI agenda semafor.com/article/07/23/…

RickyPo's tweet card. The think tank provided a roadmap for Democrats, urging collaboration with industry, attracting foreign talent, and prioritizing regulation on key ethical issues like deepfakes.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Trump’s AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against ‘Bias’—and Regulation wired.com/story/trumps-a…

RickyPo's tweet card. The Trump administration’s new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Trump’s AI plan: Pull back restraints on tech edition.cnn.com/2025/07/23/tec…

RickyPo's tweet card. The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled its AI action plan, a package of initiatives and policy recommendations meant to cement the United States as a global leader in a technology that’s...

Richard Poynder@RickyPo · Jul 24

Meta Overtakes Google DeepMind: Despite Progress in AI Risk Management, Industry Remains Far Below Adequate Standards, New SaferAI Ratings Reveal drive.google.com/file/d/1Q1pQ48…