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Multiple readings Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
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AI skill degradation early results study

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Alondra Nelson Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Djamé 🟥 Scott McGrath Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +5
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“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...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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New AI field signal Analysis 14h ago
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AI as social science field essay

Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Alondra Nelson Luke Stark Henry Farrell Social Media Lab Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo

“Yes. www.amacad.org/publication/...”

“Food for thought... "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool" www.amacad.org/publication/...”

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: "...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
Alondra Nelson: Thank you for reading and sharing.
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Established Policy & governance Signal 18d ago
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A civic grammar for AI rights | Science

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Alondra Nelson Meredith Broussard Data & Society Joanna Bryson Luke Stark Jack Stilgoe

“An expanding civic grammar for AI rights #AIBillofRights #DataCenterBillofRights www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...”

“Though President Trump rescinded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, it is having a second life. As red and blue states draft their own versions, they're drawing on the vocabulary Americans have long reached for to contest power, @alondra.bsky.social wr…”

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Alondra Nelson: An expanding civic grammar for AI rights #AIBillofRights #DataCenterBillofRights www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tamara Kneese: 👀👀👀
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Established AI research Analysis 13d ago
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scientists reject AI leader claims

Why Scientists See AI Leaders as False Prophets

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Alondra Nelson Frank Pasquale

“Encouraging to read measured assessments of AI promises for medicine and health: "the scientific community thinks Silicon Valley leaders are...making grand public pronouncements without showing an abundance of evidence to prove their statements" Gift link: …”

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Alondra Nelson: Encouraging to read measured assessments of AI promises for medicine and health: "the scientific community thinks Silicon Valley leaders are...making grand public pronouncements without showing an …
Alondra Nelson: I sent a gift link--it may be used up already.
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix: Super interesting. But if I'm reading this right, seems like it's traditional AI and not genAI that might help at all (?). That seems understated ... and important...
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