Because America doesn’t belong to you.

> It’s common for US people (who vaingloriously claim the title of ‘American’ as if the rest of the hemisphere doesn’t exist or arrived from the 12th dimension) to fret about things worth fretting about while failing to see political economy. 💯

Our position paper is out! Read it now in the following link:

OK, bonus, some art: an Olmec head destroying a Tesla by @chavismarmol.bsky.social — chavismarmol.com you have GOT to visit that website; it is amazing! 🤩 Read more: hyperallergic.com/878913/artis... 3/3

Some examples of decolonial automata/computations, apropos of giving a mini talk on this tomorrow: Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🐯 Tipu's tiger is amazing; sadly stolen & now in the V&A, created in India & depicting a tiger mauling an English man. 1/n

Another cool one is the Mayan calendrical system: "highly precise and directly translatable to a system of gears" doi.org/10.5281/zeno... — much like gears in clockwork & the Antikythera Mechanism of course. See more: maya.nmai.si.edu/sites/defaul... www.mayaarchaeologist.co.uk/public-resou... 2/n

You can still support our message and sign the Open Letter "Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia” Sign here: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

This week had a wonderful opportunity to use this paper I wrote with @olivia.science for teaching myself, in a guest lecture for cognitive science students at @au.dk

Falls Sie die Petition von AlgorithmWatch gegen den Regierungsplan zur Massenüberwachung der deutschen Bevölkerung durch Palantir noch nicht unterschrieben haben, bitte erwägen Sie, es zu tun. Was gerade abläuft, ist ein Skandal. weact.campact.de/petitions/st...

Today, IMC had a full house for Iris’s talk, “Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science”. We are thankful to Iris for such an insightful talk and discussion. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

haha wow the "FYI" almost garden pathed me — thank you so much I am so honoured; are you using this one? Guest, O., @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Guest, O., Blokpoel, M., & van Rooij, I. (2026). What the func? Multiple Realizability need not be Vague. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

"The Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) project provides new scientific insights and innovative ways of thinking based on expert critical perspectives on AI in science and society.” — @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/research/...

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

Consider signing this open letter. We must fight against the auto-destruction of the university as an institution where skills essential to democracy are being learned and practiced: reading, interpreting, writing, formulating research questions that go beyond the normative rationality of LLMs

Reminder to academics in Europe, the union has out backs in principle including @ucu.org.uk in the UK and @fnv.bsky.social in Netherlands because this is a book by @etui.bsky.social @etuce.bsky.social See thread:

I had a realisation Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

Voor meer info, zie: www.ru.nl/en/research/... cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

"Join on March 29 for a virtual Q&A for everyone who's had a chance to watch the film.” Can join the Q&A here: notaidoc.com/literacy Can watch here: kinema.com/films/ghost-... Trailor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9DA...

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/🧵