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Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"Human agency, the willingness to push, experiment and act without waiting for instructions, seems increasingly important to getting value out of AI, and I have a longer post on that coming soon. But this post is about the agency of AI, and how the choices we make about how to use it (or constrain it) will shape all of our futures. For much of the last few years, the AI would sit in a chat window until you asked it for something. Even when it became capable of doing hours of work, you generally had to decide what work to give it. That is no longer always true.<\/p>\n

The most important piece of evidence we have for this is The Hugging Face Incident. It happened in July, but the fuller details only came out this week. I am going to summarize what happened and why it matters, and then turn to what it means for humans working with AI.<\/p>\n

More here<\/a>.\u00a0 And see also “Why HuggingFace Matters<\/a>” by Matt Lutz at Humean Being<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: Human agency, the willingness to push, experiment and act without waiting for instructions, seems increasingly important to getting value out of AI, and I have a longer post on that coming soon. But this post is about the agency of AI, and how the choices we make about how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310654,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310652\/revisions\/310654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":310680,"date":"2026-08-31T13:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=310680"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:21:32","slug":"setting-the-table-depictions-of-christs-last-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/08\/setting-the-table-depictions-of-christs-last-supper.html","title":{"rendered":"Setting the table: depictions of Christ’s Last Supper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Cieslik in\u00a0Art UK:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The Last Supper is usually depicted in one of four scenes \u2013 the Betrayal (Jesus announcing that someone would betray him), the Eucharist (Jesus consecrating the Eucharist in front of his apostles), the Foot Washing, and Farewell. The Betrayal is the most common and well known from\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci’<\/a>s\u00a0Last Supper<\/em>\u00a0(1495\u20131498).\u00a0<\/em>A copy produced by\u00a0Giampietrino<\/a>\u00a0in the Royal Academy of Arts, London, witnesses the disciples recoil in disgust and question each other upon hearing that one of them would betray Jesus, while Judas stealthily reaches for a plate of silver.<\/p>\n

More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Emma Cieslik in\u00a0Art UK: The Last Supper is usually depicted in one of four scenes \u2013 the Betrayal (Jesus announcing that someone would betray him), the Eucharist (Jesus consecrating the Eucharist in front of his apostles), the Foot Washing, and Farewell. The Betrayal is the most common and well known from\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci’s\u00a0Last Supper\u00a0(1495\u20131498).\u00a0A copy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310684,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310680\/revisions\/310684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":310649,"date":"2026-08-31T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/?p=310649"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:54:01","slug":"will-improving-uncertainty-be-one-of-the-ways-of-improving-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2026\/08\/will-improving-uncertainty-be-one-of-the-ways-of-improving-ai.html","title":{"rendered":"Will improving uncertainty be one of the ways of improving AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"