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...

"Our intention is not to stop scientific research, but to stop a genocide. A laboratory being disrupted for one day is incomparable to the devastation in Gaza. We sincerely hope that Radboud University [understands] the urgency of the situation and the need for action." www.voxweb.nl/en/activists...

Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science 🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg... 📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

🩷💛 Check out @olivia.science ‘s CAIL website, with beautiful posters, video/podcast, papers and more! 🤩 olivia.science/ai

Do not miss this interview "Safeguarding science from AI” with experts in the field @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

h/t @disruptedscience.bsky.social @joymoop.bsky.social for mentioning this study (depressing, but useful) AND not unrelated to the tech sector harming us (from: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEB...)

"Ultimately, these systems cannot really replace humans, replace the quality of human craft and thinking — so many of their capacities are overblown and displacement will only happen if we accept the premises ( @olivia.science 2025).” 1/n philpapers.org/rec/GUEATU

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

@marentierra.bsky.social and I give some bad experiences we have had lately... "Such situations hollow out our institutions from within, creating bad actors out of our own students, PhD candidates, and colleagues." www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 7/n

Please consider signing our letter here: openletter.earth/open-letter-... ❣️ Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social as well as everybody else who helped make this piece: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... and the paper a reality: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 10/n

I’m glad this blog post is out. Please comment if you can identify with us.

This podcast is a great introduction to our position paper "Against the Uncritical Adoption of “AI” Technologies in Academia” which has 20 K downloads. Do not miss it!

We kunnen het zeker nog stoppen. Het frame dat AI unstoppable is, is onderdeel van de marketing. If we do not buy into it, we can stop it :) We schrijven hier ook over in de preprint: zenodo.org/records/1706... Zie ook: www.ru.nl/onderzoek/on... En ook: www.beste-id.nl/nieuws/ai-op...

@olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and their large team doing sacred work well deserving of the attention it's getting. While I'm away to figure out if there's a way to get posts shared from my reading app to thread properly, you can read the full paper at zenodo.org/records/1706...

I really appreciate efforts like this to nail down the conceptual landscape in a way that makes critique possible. A lot of technology we interact with is ideologically shackled... brought market at any social cost. We need precise understanding to offer a meaningful alternative.

I read this today and am so tempted to send it to our vice-chancellor. I will definitely be using it in my teaching in a couple of weeks' time

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

The paper is 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia' and it's worth reading in full. It’s a great resource for educators, administrators and anyone concerned about AI in the classroom. And a great resource for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy admins.

Can you all explain yourselves what the actual f is 23k views and about half as many downloads on a preprint right now come off it 🥺

No idea how hard or easy this was, but Gabriel Villalobos Camargo makes it look seamless: translation into Spanish here: scholar.social/@gabriel@col... 🥰

I see now that people are trying to argue against AI-hype by using neuro-hype. You can’t fight hype with hype !

There are a lot more people than one might think who refuse this tech but are shamed by users. Once the space for their opinions and voices opens up, the scene will change. These stats, 18k views, are not a coincidence for example on this preprint. People want to not, yup. zenodo.org/records/1706...