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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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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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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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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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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 Resource 1d ago
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OSF open science framework platform

OSF

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Abeba Birhane Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Jed Brown Andrew Hundt

“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”

“I think these might be helpful! Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”

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Olivia Guest: Ignoring this crucial distinction is BTW at the root of many instances of xenophobia/racism. People often assume that "defective" output (i. e. non-native register) equals a lack of cognitive capac…
Olivia Guest: I have lots on this angle of you're interested 🫶🏼 Sexism: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Racism: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Also... bsky.app/profile/oliv... and more but I'll not overwhelm you needlessly!
Iris van Rooij: Also here bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Ghost in the Machine | A.I. Documentary | Independent Lens

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Jed Brown

“So good! I hosted an on-campus screening in the spring (about 60 people) and many stayed for almost 2 hours of discussion afterward. I'm excited for it to be out on PBS on Monday.”

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Andrew D Wilson: QED 🙄
Adam Becker: @davekarpf.bsky.social has a proposed solution to this, which I am wildly biased in favor of but I do still think is a good idea: davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/book-revie...
Adam Becker: yeah I screamed out loud when I read that part
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The Case for Boycotting Generative AI

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Gary Marcus Jed Brown

“The case for boycotting Generative AI: https://t.co/jse1naVrFi https://t.co/z1luGzPSE0”

“Sure, Gary, so why doesn't this essay mention liability? Instead of impotent theories of change, lead with "AI systems should be presumed 'ultrahazardous' and thus subject to strict liability". This is a versatile and powerful framework. garymarcus.substack…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

Unable to Process Request

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Jed Brown

“Yeah, joint liability is something that was taken out of the Colorado bill, and I testified for restoring it. "We should expect that both developer and deployer will maximally exploit the ambiguities in this space between marketing and terms of use." My com…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign

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“This is right: booster and doomer are the same ideology, have co-signed each others' gambling debt, and cannot abide liability. Read the TESCREAL paper and order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app's book. David Gerard is another astute observer of the EA/doomer cult…”

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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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Jed Brown

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

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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 · 1d ago
Anthony Moser Amanda Tepski Jess Miers 🦝🦞 Jed Brown Amy Hoy Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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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