Believe it or not, I’ve heard this sort of opinion even from students who use AI.The pressure many feel to use it is so high. I hate it. When I teach my first iteration of my Critical Perspectives on AI & Digital Tech course next fall, we’ll have at least a week on imagining alternative futures.

They get excluded from so many tech related decisions that affect them and treated as if they have neither needs nor desires in that area. It's depressing that this is being handled in the same way.

In my career in education I've long found students to be far more realistic about the impact of technology on their education than older adults. To students, the latest tech fad does not present as some radical transformation, it's just some thing they gotta deal with.

Yep. And regrettably, those headlines make it into the public consciousness, even though the science behind them does not support such strong claims. 😕

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Same as it ever was.

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me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Yeah they’ve really failed to describe the imperatives here except that the guy whose chips the entire infrastructure is built on thinks maybe we’re not buying enough chips.

what exactly is "winning the AI race? environmental destruction, labor extraction, ever more intrusive surveillance, mass manipulation, and unprecedented power for the handful???

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Forward around to those who need to know. Key word here is 'investigating', not 'promoting'.

"After burning through almost a trillion dollars, we finally invented a computer that can't do math." "For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."

"According to Nick Clegg, AI would die if the tech oligarchs couldn't steal our work--I am okay with that. If requiring consent kills something, that thing deserves to die."

this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved

This talk from @monteiro.bsky.social is fantastic. "We are born with hearts that want to make a mark on the world. This ability is not lost, it is taken from us." A few more quotes in the thread ⬇️. There is much more in the full talk. h/t @tante.cc www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2d...

Different domain, but can't help but see the parallel to road safety. "Misuse" shifts onus to people driving and away from road engineers and car companies.

Also this. *You* are the problem if you're not satisfied with the product.

This matters, among other things because the creators claim the technology is useful for areas they don't know that well (writing, education, etc.)

If your organisation still feels the need to start any questioning of AI with "We recognise that AI has huge potential to help with XYZ, but.." then they're still not free of the hype. It's past the time for fake even-handedness, and the AI emperor has no clothes.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

That is some job, working with some woman. Makes me wish I had a PhD just so’s I could take a tilt. Have at it!

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Originally, use-cases were what were previously traditional NLP tasks. Namely semantic reasoning, textual entailment, similarity, and classification through what is now called zero-shot learning. The problem is, big tech corrupted what was originally innovative data science into a capitalist gimmick

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

This is such an amazing opportunity to work with a leader in the field doing really important work! As much as I'd love to apply, I already know I can't move to Dublin for 2 years. But someone else out there is going to get this awesome job. Is it you?

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

This is a great opportunity to work with @abeba.bsky.social at the AI Acountability Lab in Dublin on the use of genAI

This will be someone's dream position. Maybe yours?

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controversial take nobody asked for: trying to hold a "middle-ground" position on the usefulness of genAI feels like being satisfied with 'regression to the mean' as acceptable standard 🤷🏾‍♀️

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

every OpenAI commercial is like “hey dumbass your brain is terrible, use this fake one that we stole from other people that also doesn’t quite work right”

"If you don't know what a drug is doing in your body or how it works it's upto you to realise what it is for"

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

This is evident in the language around these much-touted industry, academic, or even governmental “partnerships.” The MOUs usually state that they are trying to “identify opportunities,” not that they have any clear sense of the value LLMs will add. (Though it’s even worse when they claim they do).

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

Not the only path, but a big one. Another path is compatibilism over inevitability, another is tolerating these colleagues and continuing to publish compatibilist papers, another is granting anthropomorphic language to machines, which even if minor before, it is huge today, and much more.

Lots of experts in my domain (computer programming) completely fell for it—the fallacious logic goes something like “it works for some of what I’m doing, and my field is the hardest of all human endeavors, therefore it must work 100% in all those lesser fields”

This and Zionism. I left enough projects over both, and whole heartbreaking, I can't do much else. I do hope they recover soon.

The conversion process is kind of fascinating to me. Like there’s a threshold in a conversation (often code) where critical thinking evaporates because the thing did something in a domain they weren’t familiar enough to evaluate

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

In short, money talks. Microsoft and its cash sapping parasite, OpenAI, plus Amazon, Google and others are waging a full scale propaganda war to recruit advocates. @jaybeware.bsky.social and I discuss this: www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...

I ran head first into this situation this week. It sucks.

Go fuck yourself

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