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I'm proposing a bookclub on this list by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on fighting back on data politics (term coined by Tressie). A couple of other books I'm going to add is, "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna & "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. www.nytimes.com/…
While golf courses exist in the desert, building a bunch of new golf courses in the desert would be controversial. One could imagine data center companies buying Phoenix golf-courses and replacing them with xeriscaped data center campuses, but that is not what's happening.
It's notable that the report has been out for 8 months and this was only detected because an "AI" vendor (GPTZero) had an adversarial interest. So much for the discernment capabilities of business/finance/executives. www.ft.com/content/b382...
Never forget that "everyone is cheating now" is literal marketing for the vendors. Demand to purchase these products is unperturbed by learning about harms, and overwhelmingly driven by perceived peer use. The solutions are necessarily systemic. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This has many examples, with rationale, of software communities (in many cases, research software) engaged in refusal and various middle grounds. See also Codeberg's policy: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...
So maybe there wasn't enough political capital to course-correct the 67% error-rate "assistant", but surely people on the inside could exercise some caution about new projects. Lol, no. Lip service to validation and governance, but always full steam ahead. newsnetwork.mayoclin…
the whole episode is out today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twr...
💀 Pygmalion displacement 💀 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
> “when men use AI, we question their effort; when women use AI, we question their integrity” [...] (Pringle, 2026). What is framed as a literacy deficit is [actually] a form of rational refusal [&] within that frame, the only direction of travel is toward more adoption. doi.o…
No AI-positive institution is deploying responsibly. If they say they are, it means they aren't checking or are silencing the people who are. Read Nik Suresh (hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...) or listen to this interview, then read the lawsuit from the Mayo Clinic's director of…
Live by the slop, die by the slop. > “Jay telling us to question [AI’s] output and then asking AI to rank the UWs and then presenting it to us is comical,” Noah Fritz, a regent, who is a student, wrote to Jack Salzwedel, another regent, during the February board meeting.
An excellent interview with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social on safety engineering (in contrast to the clown show of "AI safety"). This discussed abdication of standards and safety revisionism is paralleled in computational science & engineering with abandonment of verification and va…
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