Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy
3 directory members surfaced this signal.
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What credible people across AI noticed, why it matters, and where the field is converging or disagreeing.
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3 directory members surfaced this signal.
12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
What remains unresolved or contested.
“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." w…”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
“Maybe, just maybe, the way to think productively about the intersection and AI is to spend much more time thinking about humans and much less about AI. That's what I tried to do in More Than Words through the lens of writing and teaching writing. www.amazon…”
9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
“Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to …”
“www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...”
13 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”
“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
“But the otter test is a novelty. It is not a meaningful gauge of how AI tools might be useful to us or how we might think about these human capacities in relation to AI. Marveling at the capacity of AI to produce novelties is a waste of everyone's time. bib…”
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“You could take a look at this as a replacement mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...”
“You can order the physical book Inventing Eliza from @mitpress.bsky.social here:”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
““Two key takeaways are that an enormous number of physicians are using AI for clinical care and that they are often using it in areas where they don’t have specific expertise…” hms.harvard.edu/news/first-l...”
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
“Evan Shieh & @jbpleasa.bsky.social on why Jasmine Sun’s “No Data Centers in My Backyard” is "an illustrative case study for the persistent shortcomings of technocracy and the 'Abundance Agenda' to faithfully represent the material, socioenvironmental concer…”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
““According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www…”
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
1 directory member surfaced this signal.