“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”
“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”
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Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
“What is Cultural AI and the objects of its study? My paper addresses literary tools that can be borrowed to address cultural AI issues. The paper is on now ArXiv and forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies in Spring 2027. arxiv.org/abs/2607.02369”
“Nina Begus World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02369”
“Nobel-Winning US Chemist Will Move to China to Lead AI Institute: “Yaghi …voiced concern about Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation’s system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence.” ww…”
“The "Hidden Layers" exhibition examines some of the concealed dimensions of contemporary AI culture — the planetary infrastructures of extraction and computation, the often invisible human labor, the latent vector spaces within which culture is compressed a…”
“#CriticalAI4.1, Be sure to check out literary scholar James Dobson's drawing on of AI interdisciplinarian Nina Beguš' work to explain what humanists must do to effectively make sense of gen AI! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...”
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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue: #CriticalAI4.1, Professor James Dobson turns to the work of interdisciplinary AI scholar Nina Beguš to uncover the ways humanists can respond to and make sense of gen AI technologies. read.dukeupre…
Nina Beguš: #CriticalAI4.1, Professor James Dobson turns to the work of interdisciplinary AI scholar Nina Beguš to uncover the ways humanists can respond to and make sense of gen AI technologies. read.dukeupre…
Nina Beguš: The book is 50% off until the end of June: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... Also available under open access and free on Kindle! Another book in this framework, also on sale, is coming out in the fall: essa…
“We're excited to announce Artificial Humanities book series at the University of Exeter Press!💈 We invite book proposals that carry humanistic inquiry into the artificial, from ancient automata to contemporary AI and beyond. www.exeterpress.co.uk/collection…”
“I gave the interview for the Conversations section, and the next one will be by the wonderful Vauhini Vara. artificialhumanities.com/en/conversaz... Stay tuned for more projects on Instagram @osservatoriodeckard”
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