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Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Reaction converging Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions +2 more reaction maps further down
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”

Research & technical analysis

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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/”

4 experts discussed this · 46 posts
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 11d ago
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Erin Kissane
“As someone with deep concerns about every aspect of AI, I would like to see the math part of this study run with a calculator or a search engine in place of a chatbot to help disambiguate what is new here. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...” evidence ↗
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Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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Developing NLP & language Signal 2d ago

Rethinking Linguistic Tests for Large Language Models: Airplanes Aren't Birds | Northern European Journal of Language Technology

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Baldur Bjarnason

“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…”

2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Olivia Guest: > As [I and @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social] point out, drawing inferences about shared competence based on shared behavioral outputs risks committing a metatheoretical fallacy: it conflates surface s…
Olivia Guest: Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions…
Olivia Guest: also this from doi.org/10.31234/osf... with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
AI apocalypse framing essay

Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · AI Now Institute, Shobita Parthasarathy, Veni Kunche
“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...” evidence ↗
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Abeba Birhane Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio AI Now Institute Tamara Kneese Joris van Hoboken Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র +2
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
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3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."”

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Justin Hendrix: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
David Kaye: i had to scroll to the end for this modest, "arundhati roy is a writer"
Eryk Salvaggio: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
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Established Culture, work & education Resource 9d ago
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critical AI literacies summer school

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“Thank you so much for sharing @dim-ah.bsky.social It was such a pleasure and privilege to have you at our Critical AI Literacy Summer School, and so grateful you are spreading the knowledge 🙏❤️☀️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s...” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest J. Nathan Matias

“Thank you so much for sharing @dim-ah.bsky.social It was such a pleasure and privilege to have you at our Critical AI Literacy Summer School, and so grateful you are spreading the knowledge 🙏❤️☀️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s...”

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Iris van Rooij: ☀️ 📚 A joy to be at this week’s Summer School ‘Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming’. Grateful to our amazing and brilliant team 🙏 @marentierra.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @altibel…
Olivia Guest: Wish I could have been there but still in bed 🥲
Iris van Rooij: 💔💜
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New Policy & governance Development 22h ago
⚡ 199 h early
AI local laws database built

LawZero | Home

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Teresa Heffernan
“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Ethan Zuckerman Hagen Blix Teresa Heffernan
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“LawZero (lawzero.org/en) has $300m from the Canadian and German governments to build AI as a global public good, with a focus on building safe, responsible and equitable AI.”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Olivia Guest: Sup dawg, I heard you trust AI, so I put an AI in your AI so you can trust AI while you trust AI.
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawz…
Olivia Guest: prob I should sue
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Established Compute & infrastructure Development 7d ago
⚡ 81 h early
data centers taken to court podcast

- YouTube

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“☀️ 📚 Day 1 of the Summer School, we had the inspiring and thought-provoking keynote by @olivia.science, titled: “What is AI, and why is it harmful?” You can watch it here 🎬 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85... 2/🧵” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“☀️ 📚 Day 1 of the Summer School, we had the inspiring and thought-provoking keynote by @olivia.science, titled: “What is AI, and why is it harmful?” You can watch it here 🎬 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85... 2/🧵”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: Excited to hear @olivia.science’s research on what #AI is and why it is harmful at today’s @adaptcentre.bsky.social webinar. (Happening now!) #PhilAI #CogSci
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
Olivia Guest: oh you already found it! thank youu 🩵
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Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago

Guided inquiry approach to students co designing

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Rosamunde Van Brakel
“We are discussing this one tomorrow www.emerald.com/aiie/article... and I already got the students reading about a general critique of AI in education by @olivia.science et al for the first lecture: static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf15...” evidence ↗
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Olivia Guest Rosamunde Van Brakel

“We are discussing this one tomorrow www.emerald.com/aiie/article... and I already got the students reading about a general critique of AI in education by @olivia.science et al for the first lecture: static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf15...”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Rosamunde Van Brakel: Tomorrow I will teach my 2nd lecture of the year for my course Legal, Ethical & Social Issues of AI! For the evaluation, apart from the exam, students will need to write a short paper describing an…
Rosamunde Van Brakel: I have decided to co-create the gen-AI policy for the assignment together with the students. In prepration for this romorrow we will discuss a US study which did exactly this. It will also be inter…
Rosamunde Van Brakel: last week we discussed if AI is going to kill us all. And the students were very engaged in this discussion and it made clear how important it is to keep on emphasising the importance of science, p…
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4 experts · 9 posts · 8d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Robin Z
Matches Concern & critique
“i think a lot of folks who are tuned in to the many harms of ai/surveillance tech struggle with how to talk about it without getting stuck on the details of particular devices or platforms, and imo…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: *this is funny actually because professor harold hill says you don't need to practice your instrument to get good, you can "use the think method" which is not terribly dissimilar to the pitch made …
Anthony Moser: and it's important to remember (especially for talking with people who aren't interested in the tech) *you don't need to deeply evaluate or disprove the claims of a con man* you just need to spot t…
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3 experts · 12 posts · 18d ago
Olivia Guest Amy Hoy Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈
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“That's a complex counterfactual, so hard to really adjudicate. But eugenics and harm to humans, especially women, has a long history and is intertwined with the computer and AI sadly from early on …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈: So stop using them. There are plenty of alternatives.
Olivia Guest: FWIW Simon was quite the booster, sadly, even by today's standards
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3 experts · 11 posts · 18d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest Jed Brown
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“Really not sure what the point of this is. I do my very best to avoid consuming synthetic media, even though I can't always avoid it. Does not being able to avoid it somehow devalue my critique of …” evidence ↗
Emily M. Bender: Really not sure what the point of this is. I do my very best to avoid consuming synthetic media, even though I can't always avoid it. Does not being able to avoid it somehow devalue my critique of …
Emily M. Bender: Or is the claim supposed to be "Everybody uses it dude!" aka another attempt to normalize the whole horrific enterprise and pressure others into accepting it?
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2 experts · 14 posts · 15d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest
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“I'm with her on that, there is no way in which anyone should be promoting chatbots as therapy. To do so is despicable. (And I worry for anyone who is spontaneously trying that out.) >>” evidence ↗
Emily M. Bender: But mixed in, Prof. Turkle kept saying things like "It's totally fine to use ChatGPT to ask xyz medical question" or "It's great if AI is going to help find lots of new drugs". >>
Emily M. Bender: And all of this is summed up with "Stay in your lane" aimed at the chatbots: a righteous and rightful call to keep them out of psychotherapy and related fields. >>
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3 experts · 8 posts · 12d ago
Olivia Guest Dan Goodman Joshua Grochow
Matches Concern & critique
“Don't get me wrong - I agree that you shouldn't. All I was saying is that if you find LLMs unethical, all the other stuff you have to do to succeed in the game of being a super competitive prof wil…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Olivia Guest: The paper we just finished started from an idea ~1 year ago. "USING AI, you can go from idea to paper much faster" I'm told. In that year a lot else happened, professionally and privately. But stil…
Dan Goodman: If you want to get into the competitive professor game, using LLMs is not the most unethical thing you'd be doing. Fortunately, there is still space for people interested in ideas rather than compe…
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3 experts · 5 posts · 18d ago
Olivia Guest Hypervisible Anthony Moser
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“I guess it feels muddled bc "even critics are using it" is sort of an inevitability frame, whereas "it is being forced into everything so people can't avoid it" isn't really about critics” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Hypervisible : Non-consensual, hard-to-avoid "use" of GenAI (like asbestos shoved into every crevice) does not invalidate critique of GenAI (primarily, its political economy of resource extraction, labor exploita…
Anthony Moser: "Used to find a restaurant menu" is a curious minimum to choose. Search, while degraded, still exists? And even if you use a delivery app you search for a restaurant and click to see a menu Feels l…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 10d ago
Olivia Guest Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Anthony Moser
Matches Concern & critique
“will this result in them mobilizing around some nonexistent threat based on an absurd interpretation of a complete fiction? of course it will but that's their whole thing” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Anthony Moser: ai is a rhetorical technology. don't ask what it's supposed to do, ask what it's supposed to justify
Anthony Moser: will this result in them mobilizing around some nonexistent threat based on an absurd interpretation of a complete fiction? of course it will but that's their whole thing
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3 experts · 3 posts · 9d ago
Emily M. Bender Olivia Guest Christian Wolf
Matches Concern & critique
“Yes, because it is really important to smoke, try heroin, download CSAM (!!!), or burn plastic, etc etc to be able to discuss the dangers and harms of those activities.” evidence ↗
Emily M. Bender: Yes, because it is really important to smoke, try heroin, download CSAM (!!!), or burn plastic, etc etc to be able to discuss the dangers and harms of those activities.
Olivia Guest: Yes, because it is really important to smoke, try heroin, download CSAM (!!!), or burn plastic, etc etc to be able to discuss the dangers and harms of those activities.
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2 experts · 2 posts · 7d ago
Olivia Guest David Picard
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“> We use simple ResNet18 convolutional neural networks (CNN) to train models to do two things they should not be able to do: predict which patients avoid consuming refried beans or beer purely by e…” evidence ↗
Olivia Guest: > We use simple ResNet18 convolutional neural networks (CNN) to train models to do two things they should not be able to do: predict which patients avoid consuming refried beans or beer purely by e…
David Picard: Clever Hans effects have been known and studied for as long as deep learning exists. There are many mitigation techniques. Degenerate overfitting is usually not a problem when being careful enough.
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