What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Iris van Rooij
Professor of computational cognitive science
Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good nature.com
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com
AI Hiring Tools Can Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection | Stanford HAI hai.stanford.edu
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute futureoflife.org
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Expert Comment: Digital literacy on the curriculum is an opportunity for a more proactive response to AI in schools | Oxford University ox.ac.uk
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International amnesty.org
law.berkeley.edu
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AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations rollingstone.com
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia doi.org
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Iris van Rooij reposted
I've spent 15 years becoming a researcher & tenured professor. I will absolutely quit and do literally anything else the moment someone tells me my job is to sell the racist, environment-destroying machine to students (esp. 1st gen, low-income ones). Shame on CSU. www.nytimes.…
Conscientious objection should be absolutely normalised, independent of religion. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
Is this a good time to stop calling fascist technologies "tools" and to stop calling racism "bias"? hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiri...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- A Stanford HAI study of 4 million applications found 26% of Black applicants faced AI-screened positions that discriminated against their racial group.
- Roughly 40,000 more applications would have advanced if the AI tool had recommended candidates at equal rates across racial groups.
- Ten percent of applicants who submitted four applications screened by the same vendor were rejected from all of them, exceeding independent-probability expectations.
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Iris van Rooij reposted
These pause AI nonsense calls have been happening for a long time. It's always about power because they wanna consolidate and stop racing against each other for no gains. Here's a previous time of many they tried the same silliness: futureoflife.org/open-letter/...
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> teaching students how to question and critique [AI] should not be the panacea for biased, unregulated, and problematic AI. There is a risk that a focus on digital literacies can responsibilise young people in dealing with the significant problems of generative AI. www.ox.ac.…
Iris van Rooij reposted
nice piece! everything "AI" and related nonsense touches becomes confused: even "automation" is problematic since it often implies in the public imaginary & beyond no human input, no human-in-the-loop when it's the opposite! thus underlining the urgency & damage www.sciencedir…
I have free advice: read this report from @amnesty.org instead www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Iris van Rooij reposted
What a breath of fresh air. Good to see at least one university being clear and granting students exactly the space they need to hone their skills. "The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitte…
"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵
Iris van Rooij reposted
Published version here, minor differences, different abstract 👇🏼 Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵
Their own posts
Recent commentary
Some AI researchers feel threatened by AI-critique without realizing that it is the AI-industry that is threatening
Seeing scary entanglement between Dutch technofascist movements and EU level research into AI. Not that I could not guess, but seeing it black on white remains disconcerting ...
Using an AI-“tool” from [insert BigTech company name] for language editing of a paper about the remarkable capabilities of AI-“tools" is a COI in my honest opinion.
What do other researchers do when you are asked to review or write commentaries on paper that have been processed by corporate “AI”?
if one thinks *displacement AI* is just a tool, maybe one is a tool (*term by @olivia.science)
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