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Cognitive scientist working on AI critique
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
When an "AI" provider announces a new result, remember they have a product to sell. Watch for the careful and systematic ways human labour is elided at every step and claims about the model and the 'discovery' process are shielded from direct inspection Today's specimen: opena…
Today in AI in education is cop shit: "BusPatrol’s cameras would take a photo of each car a bus drives past, record the car’s license plate and GPS location, and then law enforcement can query that data."
Conscientious objection should be absolutely normalised, independent of religion. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
Disinformation machines: "A March 2025 study from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that more than 60 percent of responses from AI-powered search engines were inaccurate. A BBC study puts the wrongness of chatbots closer to 45 percent" www.wired.com/story/fact-c...?
@olivia.science @kh0rish.bsky.social I'm getting a LOT of criti-hype vibes from this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
"AI" is a PSYOP exhibit #234183 « "We deliberately limit enrollment opportunities, create waiting lists even when capacity exists, and establish application windows that close regardless of capacity—triggering the scarcity psychology that accelerates decisions and enhances per…
Mayo Clinic has been using Ambient Listening for a couple years at this point, but not all patients may be aware the recording is ongoing. www.404media.co/mayo-clinic-...
There’s a long list of reasons to boo this man.
I’m honoured and delighted to have been selected for the EU’s new AI Act Advisory Forum ec.europa.eu/transparency...
Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development …
If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:
Has anybody else noticed that with the yankification of UK politics for example we also have yankification of the mainstream internet and of academia? Everything through AI has been streamlined into nonsense of the average USA chud, lowest bar — not typical stiff upper lip or whatever else. 1/
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