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Established AI field signal Analysis 11d ago
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academics reject uncritical AI adoption

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

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Margaret Mitchell Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“5/ PDF: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.app/profile/oliv...”

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Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago
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firstmonday.org

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Margaret Mitchell Emily M. Bender

“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…”

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