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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 Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia — Digital Culture & Education (ISSN: 1836-8301) Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI research Research 4d ago
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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy | Zenodo

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio Jed Brown

“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”

3 experts discussed this · 24 posts
Olivia Guest: New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM"…
Olivia Guest: Maybe many mid-career and above academics have my experience, and so can relate, but it never ever gets any less impressive, overwhelming, or old when a student appears our of nowhere (notice our g…
Olivia Guest: Anyway, back to the work itself (from the abstract): > Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal [...] and pragmatic accommodation that treats LL…
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AI skill degradation early results study

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

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Alondra Nelson, Scott McGrath
“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…” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Djamé 🟥 Scott McGrath Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +5
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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

1 expert

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...”

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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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Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Olivia Guest, Jed Brown
“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”

Research & technical analysis

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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/”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
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 Resource 10d ago
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AI models Zenodo research deposit

Models

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“3️⃣ for those who make excuses for AI, or stats in general, in "scientific settings" without any critical reflection, see the thread below and this manuscript: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... I might come back and add more later, but maybe this is enough for now. ☺…” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dwayne Monroe

“3️⃣ for those who make excuses for AI, or stats in general, in "scientific settings" without any critical reflection, see the thread below and this manuscript: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... I might come back and add more later, but maybe this is enough for now. ☺…”

“Read here about @olivia.science 's view on Models Guest, O. (2026). Models. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

2 experts discussed this · 29 posts
Olivia Guest: I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society…
Olivia Guest: > [We need] to push back against correlationism[:] the idea that because things can appear similar that therefore their [other properties match. A] video of me may directly coincide with many of my…
Olivia Guest: > This becomes utterly damaging pedagogically when we assume the ‘output’ of an assignment, the essay or horrifically the grade, is the essence. The point is for students to engage with the subject…
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 4d ago
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uncritical AI academia adoption critique

Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia — Digital Culture & Education (ISSN: 1836-8301)

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“"[U]niversities must take their role seriously to a) counter the AI industry’s marketing, hype & harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. (...) [W]e include pointers to relevant wo…” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"[U]niversities must take their role seriously to a) counter the AI industry’s marketing, hype & harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. (...) [W]e include pointers to relevant wo…”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“And this which is now published here: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p... 🌞 Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 2/2”

2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Olivia Guest: I already thought of: - "Laborwashing" (Red; "AI will liberate workers by alleviating them from boring labor" shit) - Greenwashing - Ethicswashing (blue) - Pinkwashing (I think they do pinkwashing …
Olivia Guest: Wow need to check this properly later
Iris van Rooij: Thanks @ethicsofai.bsky.social for mentioning! Here a reference. See highlighted sentence.
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2 experts · 15 posts · 16d ago
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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“> Their business depends critically on problem-solving. For this they recruit graduates every year and so they rely on a steady supply of graduates and therefore on healthy universities. Healthy un…” evidence ↗
Olivia Guest: @olivia.science Here's a first draft of what your piece on anxiety made me think about. I will post it properly next week as a quote post to that. I've put all the "an old academic wistfully rememb…
Olivia Guest: > I have experience that is cousin to this also – of not being trusted. For example, I was once accused by a colleague of having “gone native” for my preference to support students rather than coll…
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