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Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel Jed Brown
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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.”

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“@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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Amnesty International generative AI human rights report

Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

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Iris van Rooij Luke Stark James Grimmelmann Alix Dunn tante rev. howard arson Pavel Adverb +3
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“"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."”

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“> Without significant changes to how these systems are developed and deployed, they will continue to undermine international human rights laws and standards. www. amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This is a pretty good report overall. Hard to dis…”

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James Grimmelmann: I know people who do a shitload of web scraping without the consent of the people whose servers and personal data are being scraped. And do you know why they do it? To document human rights violati…
James Grimmelmann: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
Adverb: I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to …
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Anthropic recorded net loss over billion first half this year wsj reports

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Pavel: Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid …
Teresa Heffernan: Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid …
Luis Villa: These numbers are for 2025, before Claude Code’s rocket launch? So the two are not contradictory?
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3 experts · 3 posts · 15d ago
Emily Bell Pavel ae
Pavel: "AI will destroy humanity" has always and only been an attempt to distract from "AI will leak your login credentials to the internet"
Emily Bell: Exactly …’you might want to buy a wind up radio because the Internet will be offline frequently in the coming months…and get some cash as Applepay won’t work’ just less appealing as a PR statement …
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2 experts · 4 posts · 20d ago
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Pavel: Access to hormones needs to be regulated, nowadays any kid can walk into the corner store and buy as many e cigarettes as they like
Pavel: Sincerely hoping that no one's shitty AI assistant picks this up as a serious post
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2 experts · 3 posts · 13d ago
tweety fish Pavel
tweety fish: one of the interesting things--hey I should write about this at length--about all this nonsense is the way that it's revealing how many people (including many bosses) have a weird/stupid/bad idea o…
tweety fish: like if you think of "managing people" as comprising only "you tell people what to do and if they do a bad job you yell at them or fire them", boy you're turbo-fucked, and that is weirdly applicabl…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 13d ago
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alanau.bsky.social: This reminds me a lot of the hype around data science about 10 years ago. It's basically corporate FOMO, which is a sign of weak management.
Pavel: What do you mean we can't just tell our people "add AI to this" and magically 10x profit
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