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critical AI essay olivia science

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

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“Thanks so much to my wonderful colleagues Marieke & @marentierra.bsky.social for setting up at @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social's amazing festival: reject AI instead reclaim the future! 🫚 💞 💥 Posters are here: zenodo.org/records/1736... & you can read more here…”

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Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
Olivia Guest: Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/
Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Anthony Moser
“it's not even like it has to get hacked tbh. there is so much critical infrastructure dependent on systems that require constant maintenance and aren't really getting it. so yeah the answer to "what could they do to harm us" is "break"” evidence ↗
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Anthony Moser Jess Miers 🦝🦞 Gina Helfrich By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Anthony Moser: it's not even like it has to get hacked tbh. there is so much critical infrastructure dependent on systems that require constant maintenance and aren't really getting it. so yeah the answer to "wha…
Anthony Moser: and even with the threat of automated script kiddies, i think the worst stuff we'll see coming from ai is most likely to happen bc somebody asks it to tell them what to do
Anthony Moser: "chatgpt, walk me through fixing this reactor"
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6 experts · 37 posts · 14d ago
Anthony Moser Amanda Tepski Jess Miers 🦝🦞 Jed Brown Amy Hoy Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“Definitely. I warn my students about this too. I don't worry about the C- lawsuit who barely survived law school using AI. I'm worried about the gunners who know both the law and how to weaponize t…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Policy & governance · 4 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Amanda Tepski: In rebuttal to “legal? ai is getting there” I offer www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
Jed Brown: And beyond law, is a 67% error rate good for medicine? Is it normal medical practice to suppress data misconduct and 10 independent whistleblowers? It's only "getting there" when conditions to bypa…
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4 experts · 19 posts · 5d ago
Olivia Guest Hagen Blix Anthony Moser Abstract Tesseract
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“1. most people do not know how LLMs work, or what inherent limitations might exist as a result of that approach 2. companies that make LLMs describe what they can do and how they work in misleading…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one…
Anthony Moser: 1. most people do not know how LLMs work, or what inherent limitations might exist as a result of that approach 2. companies that make LLMs describe what they can do and how they work in misleading…
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3 experts · 12 posts · 6d ago
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Anthony Moser
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“are you sure there isn't a facial unlock system on luxury cars already? a lot of times surveillance is sold as a luxury @hypervisible.blacksky.app is in fact working on a book about this called "Lu…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't a…
Anthony Moser: So let's apply that here. what does this justify?
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3 experts · 11 posts · 16d ago
Ben Recht Anthony Moser Will Lowe
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“Hmm. That software has unexpected effects should not be surprising. It's the norm, and you have to work overtime to prevent or protect against those unexpected effects.” evidence ↗
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Will Lowe: Functional programming seems much clearer about being a tool for reasoning first & a set of operations and data types distant second. Is my elegant recursion being quietly unrolled into a loop? 🤷🏻 …
Anthony Moser: I think a lot of things go wrong when we mistake programming metaphors for how the computer works. You might have object-oriented programming but it is only one computer; it's just a way of keeping…
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