“This article ends with a good conclusion, but it is extremely misguided along the way. It is also a rich text for exploring how clear language helps make the point better. A thread: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... >>”
“This editor/author does the same “trick” as he writes: "Recently, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields. New AI agents can now carry out many…”
“Do read the whole thing, think about your personal and professional values, and how they can serve as strong grounds for resistance and refusal. leidendeclaration.ai”
“Weeks ago, @chanda.blacksky.app sent me this declaration, written and signed by a bunch of mathematicians. But I only had time to read it yesterday, which ended up being right on time given a new round of hype falling exactly under the patterns this documen…”
“How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/t…”
“Starts with asking Claude if it’s a “moral patient” and goes downhill from there.”
“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. >>
“Over on linkedin, I heard from Jeanna Matthews, co-chairing an ACM taskforce on Responsible AI use (saving commentary on that framing for later…) that this decision does *not* come from ACM leadership & that community input really matters. Make your voice h…”
“Take some time (very little) to weigh on this: "Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (not that I want to influence anyone, but my own position is along the lines of "hell no.")”
““The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.””
“Returning to this thread after a busy week, now that I've had time to read your "stochastic flocks" piece. Link here, just in case anyone else is following: www.techpolicy.press/stochastic-f... >>”
“This article managed to annoy all sides, but there are good technical explanations of why this kind of system would be capable of finding vulnerabilities & writing functional code. Rigorous critiques of AI are systemic, it holds up even when it “does things…”
“The "AI is an ideology" section of my recent encyclopedia article, and all of the references cited therein doi.org/10.1093/9780... preprint available from: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/publ... >>”
“"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/”
““"Useful" is not sufficient” https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/ > Usefulness is not an objective, fully abstract property: A thing is not useful for everyone or in general but mostly just for specific people in specific contexts. And usef…”
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tante: "In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/
tante: (Sorry, just a quick note, I'd love to write a longer piece on "useful" because it's such a harmful narrative)
tante: Gotta figure out if I might want to pitch that somewhere or just dump it on the blog ;))
“Depressing that ACM is probably correct about this: "AI-assisted literature reviews ... are already changing research workflows. Publishers absent from AI ecosystems risk becoming repositories of record rather than sources of influence." cacm.acm.org/opinio…”
“My reply: Not everyone who disagrees with me, but people who are loudly aligning themselves with a fascist project. That opinion isn't knee-jerk either, but rather deeply informed. Some good starting points for learning more: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social notai…”
“I did not submit anything to #EMNLP2026, which is probably part of why I missed this when it was first posted in May, but I want to say now that I am utterly appalled that @aclmeeting.bsky.social & @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social are engaging in this nonsense. 20…”
“If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender.bsky.social , @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman, with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. firstmon…”
“I follow @mjcrockett.bsky.social and @lmesseri.bsky.social in believing science (and in fact all scholarship) to be an essentially human activity. (@alexhanna.bsky.social and I write about this in The AI Con, too.) www.nature.com/articles/s41... >>”
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Emily M. Bender: A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>
Emily M. Bender: I follow @mjcrockett.bsky.social and @lmesseri.bsky.social in believing science (and in fact all scholarship) to be an essentially human activity. (@alexhanna.bsky.social and I write about this in …
Abstract Tesseract: A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>
M.J. Crockett: Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how muc…
M.J. Crockett: Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simp…
Emily M. Bender: Not loving how the #ACL2026 keynote represents "philosophy" graphically here.
Emily M. Bender: If the point of the example is not to critique the lack of gender diversity in philosophy, then representing it like this only reinforces that. Plus: the Greeks are not the only ancient philosophers!
Emily M. Bender: I really appreciate this stance. Too many people try to use "but it's useful" as a counterargument to what we say, for example, in The AI Con. Useful for whom and at what cost (to the user and espe…
tante: I really appreciate this stance. Too many people try to use "but it's useful" as a counterargument to what we say, for example, in The AI Con. Useful for whom and at what cost (to the user and espe…
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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