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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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Concern & critique

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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/”

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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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“@jzl86 @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind @Miles_Brundage @rodneyabrooks OK two more more recent papers then: https://t.co/GRGkE3juP8 Do we collaborate with what we design?”

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Pavel: Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, an…
Ali Alkhatib: that colleague who traumatized data workers during their training period, produces deepfakes of unwilling women, has no connection to reality like you or me, and CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: In my last real “tech” job I was the designated guy who took all of the code the super-prolific “distinguished engineer” generated without any planning and put into production over the weekend, to …
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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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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"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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2 experts · 5 posts · 2d ago
Dan Hon Pavel
Dan Hon: Just finished Robert Jackson Bennet's A Tainted Cup, and... I think you could make an Obra Dinn Dinnlike of Ana and Din? (The book was great, v recommend much)
Dan Hon: Also finished TR-49 recently so ai am very into my spreadsheet mysteries
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3 experts · 3 posts · 5d ago
Hypervisible Pavel alanau.bsky.social
Pavel: Founders: *reading distressed recruiters posting about candidates using AI to cheat on interviews* we should make this into a product
alanau.bsky.social: At some point it'll just be AI interviewers meeting with AI candidate for jobs being done via AI, and why are we even bothering to do any of this at all?
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3 experts · 3 posts · 18d ago
Luis Villa Pavel Teresa Heffernan
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 …
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2 experts · 3 posts · 7d ago
Pavel Abstract Tesseract
Pavel: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I asked AI which one to try. "Explorers say to pick the right." I did; no Robert Frost in sight. The answer left me unimpressed once it turned out that Claude j…
Abstract Tesseract: Mentally compiling a list of "writers who mercifully did not live long enough to see 'AI'" and "writers who mercifully did not live long enough for us to see their thoughts on 'AI'"
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2 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
Pavel Andrew D Wilson
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Andrew D Wilson: I was on Google Scholar and every pdf link had an AI ‘quick summary’ button but I just read the abstract so I didn’t have to worry about this shit
Pavel: There was a study where someone compared AI summary accuracy to the abstract, and they did not do very well
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2 experts · 3 posts · 14d ago
Pavel Baldur Bjarnason
Baldur Bjarnason: As far as slop indicators go, variations on “let me break that down for you” have to be somewhere in the top ten Also, do people not realise how condescending and insulting this phrasing is in a re…
Pavel: Since the output and input are one and the same to a language model, I wonder if they are trained to break a task down into steps before doing the steps, and that bleeds through to the text generat…
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