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open letter AI academia adoption
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“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science”
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“Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their na…”
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Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
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Amazon Mechanical Turk platform closes
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“Data workers will lose vital income when Amazon's Mechanical Turk shuts down. Krystal Kauffmann calls for lawmakers to protect AI's hidden workforce. buff.ly/qOfG2tu”
“Wow: www.techpolicy.press/mechanical-t...”
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AI skill degradation early results study
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“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”
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“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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OpenAI 50 consumer harm lawsuits
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“OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...”
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critical AI essay olivia science
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“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”
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“@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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philosophy journal publishes AI article
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OSF open science framework platform
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“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”
“*exhaustedly taps sign* see: doi.org/10.31235/osf... and this from @abeba.blacksky.app: doi.org/10.48550/arX...”
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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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“Quote is from: philpapers.org/rec/FODMFF, Chapter in The Robot's dilemma. The frame problem in artificial intelligence (Ed. Z. Pylyshyn, 1987): archive.org/details/robo...”
The Robot archived essay
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“Quote is from: philpapers.org/rec/FODMFF, Chapter in The Robot's dilemma. The frame problem in artificial intelligence (Ed. Z. Pylyshyn, 1987): archive.org/details/robo...”
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“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”
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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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Olivia Guest AI critique post
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AI agent lethal trifecta essay
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“I really like Simon Willison's "lethal trifecta"—which I'm most probably adding to both my fall semester courses—but I am amused at how AI is basically forcing people to re-discover long-established principles in security (in this case, OCaps). simonwilliso…”
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academics reject uncritical AI adoption
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“And this which is now published here: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p... 🌞 Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 2/2”
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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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Personal AI hater opinion essay
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“i also compiled it into a list for my haterversary post if you want something more succinct”
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Olivia Guest: What are your go-to resources on the dangers of LLMs and so-called "A.I."? I'm working on something and am looking to marshal a proper bibliography. If you have peer-reviewed studies that's great, …
Olivia Guest: All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2
Olivia Guest: And this which is now published here: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p... 🌞 Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–1…
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“*exhaustedly taps sign* see: doi.org/10.31235/osf... and this from @abeba.blacksky.app: doi.org/10.48550/arX...”
uncritical AI academia adoption critique
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“"[U]niversities must take their role seriously to a) counter the AI industry’s marketing, hype & harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. (...) [W]e include pointers to relevant wo…”
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“And this which is now published here: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p... 🌞 Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 2/2”
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Olivia Guest: I already thought of: - "Laborwashing" (Red; "AI will liberate workers by alleviating them from boring labor" shit) - Greenwashing - Ethicswashing (blue) - Pinkwashing (I think they do pinkwashing …
Olivia Guest: Wow need to check this properly later
Iris van Rooij: Thanks @ethicsofai.bsky.social for mentioning! Here a reference. See highlighted sentence.
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“OK, maybe these are useful for your exploration. Hopefully, but please ignore of course if not. I'll link you directly to where there is the full paper and related threads as much as possible. 1/ PDF: doi.org/10.31234/osf... bsky.app/profile/oliv...”
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Olivia Guest: ? bsky.app/profile/eryk...
Olivia Guest: What exactly are you looking for if useful I can suggest readings? Especially if you're interested in academic work.
Olivia Guest: OK, maybe these are useful for your exploration. Hopefully, but please ignore of course if not. I'll link you directly to where there is the full paper and related threads as much as possible. 1/ P…
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