“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”
“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”
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Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
“New initiative from @karenhao.bsky.social airesistlist.org”
“On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world. http:// airesistlist.org”
“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”
“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”
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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
“"I’ve struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity." Hating AI in 2026”
“"AI users seem untroubled by—or unaware of—the dissonance, because the richest individuals and corporations have decided that the future must be built on this specific approach to this specific technology that they own." www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-...”
“🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The articl…”
“One thing you learn from reading so many accounts of edtech “innovations”’over the decades is how the mischaracterization of what schools actually look like never changes. The people quoted always parrot shit like “schools haven’t changed in 80 years” despi…”
“"This review shows how diverse actors are resisting algorithms, [automated decision-making], and AI in everyday life contexts—and that such resistance is possible across diverse geopolitical and cultural contexts and in relation to various sociotechnical sy…”
“"We describe what a technoskeptical position entails and discuss how it offers insights that notions of AI literacy or competencies do not,” write @jbpleasa.bsky.social and Julianna Lopez Kershen.”
“A helpful review from Keara Quadros, Marcia McKenzie, and Kalervo Gulson. Also, because “the environmental impacts of the development and use of AI in education are an area that will require further research,” who wants to collaborate?”
“"A mature university response will protect the right to refuse, cultivate the duty to understand, and treat refusal as evidence that the purposes of learning, teaching, scholarship and governance remain open to public deliberation."”
Charles Logan: I know what I’m doing with my kids this weekend! (Also, websites like this one and the creativity and learning they might support are one other reason a contextless metric like “screen time” is an …
Olivia Guest: I know what I’m doing with my kids this weekend! (Also, websites like this one and the creativity and learning they might support are one other reason a contextless metric like “screen time” is an …
Jane Rosenzweig: "You don't need to experience anything that might give you joy or unexpectedly make your child laugh" but there is still no AI that will do the laundry for you while you tell your kids a story.
Charles Logan: As we all know, writing is for losers and nobody’s achieving unicorn status with something as humdrum as solving a centuries-long gendered labor issue like laundry, so better to turn over your imag…
Charles Logan: Heard about a new parenting book just now via an email from our local children's museum. Book discusses raising kids in the age of AI and it’s blurbed by Eric Schmidt, Angela Duckworth, and Jonatha…
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