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Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Olivia Guest, Jed Brown
“If you're in psychology or any of the cognitive sciences please consider that AI is more than a harmful piece of hype or pollutes the environment but also actively destroys our ability to do our science. A lot of my work related to this is here: olivia.scie…” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“If you're in psychology or any of the cognitive sciences please consider that AI is more than a harmful piece of hype or pollutes the environment but also actively destroys our ability to do our science. A lot of my work related to this is here: olivia.scie…”

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“@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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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy | Zenodo

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“And also: Ray, I. & Guest, O. (2026). Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio Jed Brown

“And also: Ray, I. & Guest, O. (2026). Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

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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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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor
“Not to put too fine a point on it but remember in Jan 2025 when the AMS was like JMM will have a theme for the first time ever and the theme is AI, yay, ps the program has no decision of ethical concerns etc? www.ams.org/about-us/ai-...” evidence ↗
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor Jed Brown

“Not to put too fine a point on it but remember in Jan 2025 when the AMS was like JMM will have a theme for the first time ever and the theme is AI, yay, ps the program has no decision of ethical concerns etc? www.ams.org/about-us/ai-...”

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Established Compute & infrastructure Signal 5d ago

Western government leaders call for a focus on infrastructure resilience, not AI hype

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“The actual exploits are not nearly so fancy. And what is needed is mostly boring old-fashioned infrastructure resilience.” evidence ↗
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Jed Brown

“The actual exploits are not nearly so fancy. And what is needed is mostly boring old-fashioned infrastructure resilience.”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Meredith Rose: I think it's simpler than that: they simply do not understand what they're building. And that's a problem that has been around for a while in machine learning. There's a point of complexity past wh…
Meredith Rose: The "it's all marketing hype" is an understandable reflex, because the marketers have been the ones driving policy. Now frontier labs are in a position where, when (not if!) there *is* a serious ri…
Meredith Rose: This is the worst possible state of affairs. There ARE very serious risks, we do NOT know what these tools are capable of, and a huge swath of the population won't believe that the risk is real bec…
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6 experts · 37 posts · 1h 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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2 experts · 13 posts · 3h ago
Jeff Sharlet Jed Brown
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“Yes we do so let’s fucking support any and all efforts to get Congress to take seriously this is dangerous. If they want to imagine it like Hal, fine; if they want to talk energy consumption, bette…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Policy & governance · 2
Jeff Sharlet: Is AI gonna kill us by launching nukes or whatever? Dunno, but I'm more puzzled at the leftists & liberals saying "akshually" to the idea--and the window it opens for regulation--because the whethe…
Jeff Sharlet: Of course I get this might be marketing or some other BS. But why are people trying to “akshually” the first time politicians are seriously talking about slowing down AI? Why do we care more about …
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