The complicity of universities cannot be understated... The few of us fighting back aren't enough. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Language is so funny. "Cannot be overstated" and "cannot be understated" mean similar things in this context. Ha. You can't overstate it means it's not possible to. Can't understate it means please don't understate it. Help me do both, I guess. Coming out of migraine and words are difficult. 🫪

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai 🧵

I guess so too!

A very special episode, have a listen: pca.st/episode/59c7... Hollowed, with @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social

This summer school is about the real Critical AI literacies, not the washing type. You cannot miss it! Just two weeks to apply for the early bird application. Deadline is 31 March.

For more — and more in-depth — information, also read: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., et al. & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3/🧵 cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

The #cwcon25 Proceedings are here, and I'm grateful for the inclusion of my keynote, "What's 'Critical' about 'Critical AI'? A Recommitment to Humanistic Inquiry in the Ostensible March to Hyper-Automation." Thank you to the editors and peer reviewers for making this Proceedings possible!

Apply for our Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming. More information and resources:

this is more along the lines of things they should be teaching bsky.app/profile/iris...

I compiled a sort of follow up here olivia.science/before/ on the situation with ppl thinking we're in some special moment: "We have certainly been here before. Many many times in the past, companies — just like artificial intelligence (AI) companies now — have lied to us to sell us products." 1/

Apply for our Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming. More information and resources:

this is a good way, as @booch.com frames it here, to flip the pygmalion displacement back on the perpetrators and enablers; more here: olivia.science/ai/#pygmalion; PDF: osf.io/preprints/so...

We need to reclaim "token anxiety" for the feeling gendered and racialised people get when we're invited to all male/white events

“Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas. This requires deep commitment to the mission of universities, our academic values, our scientific integrity, and our critical scholarship …”

Critical washing, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social !

Selfish AI: "I will be thinking ill of you [...] because you have made yet another part of the economy impossible to engage with ethically. This is how societies die. [...] I have nothing left but contempt for "it is what it is." www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish... h/t @adolfont.github.io

AI technologies have been actively promoted in universities under the guise of efficiency, time optimization, and the fear of missing out or “falling behind.”

In our position paper we looked at how the core principles of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for #ResearchIntegrity applies to AI usage. @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @marentierra.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This is a must-read if you want to understand AI colonialism and current apps offering all kinds of services (romance, therapy, and more)

kinda proud that my middle schooler sent this to me 🤣

Probably something like critical AI literacy or critical AI studies could work cc @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Putting ‘prompt quality’ into the ‘safeguards’ bin of AI scams ( @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social and I discuss the latter, here: zenodo.org/records/1778...)

Coming out of 3 week migraine (status migrainosus, look it up) & seeing my work — w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social — in Rolling Stone. Guess I shouldn't be as depressed anymore based on facts 😌

If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co: "Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a... Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social

Second half of my 3-minute opening statement for today's panel discussion. In the panel, we each picked two papers to share on a handout for attendees and guide discussion. Mine were: zenodo.org/records/1706... and unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p... (click through to read titles/authors please!)

Nobody has called me a technopessimist yet. But I haven't done any research on this myself. I just try to make other people's research on the negative impact of LLMs reach as many people as possible.

Een paar foto's van de demo. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥

Yup, as @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social and I say in Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... "[Guardrails] pose an infinite regress of humans in the loop needed to make pretend of what AI was supposed to solve"

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨ Thread with my favourite quotes 👇 1/🧵

That's us! Please keep signing: openletter.earth/open-letter-... More here: olivia.science/ai#activism

Pure excellence.

An interesting approach. After a (very) quick read, I'd like to highlight the following: "We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..." 1/2

Tudo bem que é treinado com material roubado, que gasta uma quantidade enorme de energia, que causa crise hídrica, que deixa as pessoas malucas, que faz adolescente se matar, que espalha desinformação, que deixa os bilionários mais ricos, mas pelo menos também causa câncer.

Full reference: * Suarez Estrada, M., Barbara, M., Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. Sustainability Dispatch, Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @marentierra.bsky.social @olivia.science

We have a name for that: Critical Washing bsky.app/profile/adol...

Thanks, Iris! bsky.app/profile/iris...

ah that (in your OP) is also called whitewashing, specifically ethics washing, see @marentierra.bsky.social Suarez, M., Müller, B.,Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI

Please sign letter to stop the AI hype:

✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿 Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper: Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

"Utmost care is needed to avoid [...] critical washing. Critical reflection [is not a box to tick] before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life" — @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Somehow I got people in my mentions asking me why I don’t want to prevent autism. To them, I say: Hi, welcome to bsky, please go get some neurodiversity education before you injure yourself. #Autistic

"Additionally, by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513

"We always tell people that AI tools are kind of flawed colleagues: they are not thinking beings, but calculating machines." Good lord these people are unhingedly cringe www.ru.nl/en/radboud-i...

Another lesson we can take from this marketing release thinly disguised as high level overview is that 'the west' has never been serious about addressing climate change. The ad includes this statement, then blithely goes on to say: 'let's try it even though the Earth, she burns!'

Thank you, Alex. Here's everything in one spot olivia.science/ai I recommend the project syndicate piece with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social 💖

This post is blowing up. Please read the full paper 😌✨ 👇👇👇👇👇👇 Guest, O., Suarez, et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

> Computing has always been a seesawing discipline. We had the AI winters of the 1970s and the 1990s, and we had the dot. com crash and the ensuing “Image Crisis.” It seems another crisis is upon us. Will we ever learn? It is time for some serious thinking! cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp...