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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI 404media.co
Majority of City Council Members Urge Mamdani to Pause A.I. in Schools nytimes.com
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Wow - can't make this up. Just let us surveil you and your child and your child's teacher and your doctor and your lawyer and your therapist and...watch us get rich! www.404media.co/researchers-...
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/n... A parent-driven pause AI in schools movement has persuaded the majority of the New York city council to agree!
#CriticalAI 4.1, artist Molly Crabapple speaks out against corporate tech’s fleecing of creative workers and the production of “vampiric slop” which mimics their artistry through AI. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Professor James Dobson turns to the work of interdisciplinary AI scholar Nina Beguš to uncover the ways humanists can respond to and make sense of gen AI technologies. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Don't forget to check out Russian language scholar Kitt Pribble's critique of automated, LLM-based translation modules! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Don't forget to check out digital studies scholar Kat Brewster's assessment of the heteronormative biases of AI algorithms! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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The report is a serious warning of the issues that arise when poor safety protocols govern AI use, one we should take seriously given the Trump admin has adopted AI tools across federal agencies, many of which are privy to sensitive personal information.
#CriticalAI by @dukepress.bsky.social proud to announce 4.1: free to public for 3 more wks! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/... From @mollycrabapple.bsky.social crushing it in the opener, to a fab essay on why #intersectionality crushes #genAI, onto amazing reviews, the issue …
#CriticalAI4.1, Remember to check out literary critic Alexander Hartley's critique of corporate AI's aesthetic "hijacking" from the lens of artist Hito Steyerl's work. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Don't forget to check out roboticist Andrew Hundt's critique of automated solutions to eldercare from the perspective of disability studies! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Remember to check out historian Jamie Pietruska's analysis of how "bottom-up approaches" to data demystify it and reveal its political connotations! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Again @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social shows that he doesn't realize that "AI" isn't a single technology. These "good" products are all significantly different.They have little to do w/ the technofeudal, technofascistic monopolies Klein (unknowingly?) boosts when he writes on AI. NYT editors wake up!
@criticalai.bsky.social Whenever opinion journalists use "ban" to describe a policy abt use of gen AI in a learning environment, grit your teeth and prepare for bizarre claims and rhetorical questions (below shortchanging clients/endangering the future of students at @berkeleylaw.bsky.social). +
This op essay from a Stanford undergrad is interesting but fails the reality test. Even in Sili Valley, no one's throwing $$ at half-baked startups "AI in the title." Bollocks! Perplexity had early AMZN funding; and let's not forget that Anthropic + OpenAI also lose money w/ each user query. /1
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