🩷💛 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...

this should be a compulsory read to everyone in higher education regardless of your proximity to AI

The notion that there is but one future, and you can either submit to it or perish, has been one of the biggest hazards to critical thinking in our time.

That was a very cathartic read.

"AI has always been a marketing phrase that erodes scientific inquiry and scholarly discussion by design, leaving the door open to pseudoscience, exclusion, and surveillance" "...there will be no future to embrace if we deskill our students and selves..." goddamn this paper is fire!

I'm still a bit shocked at the attention because I expected something, but this is immense. 11k views on zenodo!? What? Thank you all! (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) Wondering if my new followers are into my research? Shall I do a thread of my work for you all? Do you like papers also like below? 🥰

En: een nieuw paper over AI in de wetenschap onder leiding van @olivia.science! www.felienne.nl/2025-36/

Many are craving the stance you articulate.

As we were informed last week about our university — and in fact many(most?) Italian universities — paying for pro openAI I have forwarded the link to the head of Mathematics. Thank you @olivia.science and your coauthors for your work.

"Resisting AI technologies means refusing to take a role in the continuing devastation of the environment and the exploitation of labour."

boop bsky.app/profile/iris...

and these if people wanna do some postering bsky.app/profile/oliv...

And from me too! Thanks! @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social

Pensamiento crítico del bueno.

🚨 ALL HANDS ON DECK, THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 Here's a paper that will give you all the science-based ammunition you need to convince your higher-ups that they shouldn't just ignorantly jump on the AI bandwagon. Let's turn the tide around and stand up against all this nonsense

Thanks to you @olivia.science for leading this great and so needed project: Against the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia. Read the preprint here: zenodo.org/records/1706...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I already left science once. And it's very clear that some people around me know how hard it is while others actively contribute because let's be honest there's no neutrality here. Certain people profit by pushing us down or allowing others to. To the cool people who protect and support: thanks. 1/

Excellent mansplaining example: a man with a PhD in psychology explains which AI work to a woman who (has a PhD and) researches AI.

Sara Ahmed's work is along the lines of what I was imagining www.dukeupress.edu/complaint

SpaceX told investors it may never have to pay US federal income tax. Thanks to a change made during Trump’s first term, it can count the more than $5 billion in losses it racked up by late 2021 against future taxable income. Meanwhile, 76% of its income in 2021 came from government contracts.

Se ha publicado una potente carta abierta a las instituciones universitarias y gubernamentales de Países Bajos. Trata de evitar la adopción acrítica de las tecnologías de IA en el mundo académico. Gracias a @olivia.science y @irisvanrooij.bsky.social openletter.earth/open-letter-...

"We can't ban AI" they keep saying — "China will surpass us" they keep saying... I mean they surely surpass us in taking education seriously: www.theverge.com/news/682737/...

heartbreaking case that exemplifies all that is wrong with silly half-measures and nonsense about AI use ("it was allowed to ask ChatGPT questions so that students could develop ideas as a result") & how people who don't need visas to live/study here bully those who do www.utoday.nl/spotlight/74...

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University colleagues (especially in The Netherlands) -- sign onto this open letter -- "Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia" Thank you to Olivia Guest and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social for leading on this. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

I just signed this letter. Join the critical movement against corporate AI in the classrooms.

Saying you need to use ChatGPT or the like to learn critical AI literacy, is like saying you need a computer to learn Computer Science. Both are false and misleading. www.csunplugged.org/en/

You can sign here

Short text on genAI worth reading.

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? — by @marentierra.bsky.social #BarbaraMueller @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-a...