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‘Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data | WIRED’ … of course they have, if you stop saying or caring about DEI, then how would you report on it?

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." 1/n www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Hm, bizarre world. But I have a question- if not a genius idea; hypothetically, if we all marry ChatGPT, let’s assume I found THE loophole, imagine the potential divorce settlement from OpenAI we’d get! If you can’t beat them, divorce them? 🥳

‘Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.’

Of course they are. So the ads are coming to ChatGPT as predicted. Should be fun. Or not.🍿😎 #ShopGPT

‘Even if we could make AI systems…transparent, capable of explaining their reasoning in lucid prose, this does not cure the underlying democratic deficit; a decision explained is still a decision imposed. Without a clear path for recourse, human agency dissolves into statistical abstraction.’💥

To my surprise, but for a while now, the @financialtimes.com has increasingly become an important since critical AI info source, but it’s also an expensive one. anyone having tips or infos on whether some (or your?) Unis provide access to it? If so, I can better pitch it to @univie.ac.at

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization 1/

‚Some researchers see this behaviour as a serious threat, whereas others call it hype. So should these episodes really cause alarm, or is it foolish to treat LLMs as malevolent masterminds?‘ I am torn here 🫤 a/ legally, murder plotting requires intent&accountability www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lots of things wrong here, from the maybe realness to the only toolness (?). I don’t get why fake women equally have to embody fake beauty standards, which real women have been tortured with forever a/ now, get resold as standardised womenness. #syntethicdiscrimination variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Surprise surprise, hm, not really. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

#CreativeSurveillanceHacks Love the (analogue) #hacking twist, hate that we need this… conemagazine.com/culture/capa...

everyone who believes that AI will fix democracy: Read this piece by @himself.bsky.social‬ ‪@hahrie.bsky.social‬ knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

The FDA is using an LLM to speed up drug approvals. 🤦‍♂️ #AIEthics #Trumpland #MakeAmericaSickAgain

I wrote something on #syntheticdiscrimination; a form that is rendering existing women invisible online due to the hypervisible, synthetic female imagery made by GenAI and taking over. Publication👇🏻 (for now, only in German, @unesco.org) www.unesco.at/fileadmin/us...

Great piece on #slopaganda: «Whether it's a self-assured small social media account … or, indeed, a department of the US government, the viewing public isn't the only target of this new form of propaganda. In this manner, the creator also experiences the same reassurance from interactions online.»

#uefa2025 #frauenem #orf nach nur 5 Minuten kommentiert der Sprecher, dass #jennihermoso leider nicht dabei ist ‚die die damals in den Kuss Skandal verwickelt war‘. Nope, nix da. Sie war nicht so verwickelt, sondern wurde von LB belästigt. Solange wir so sprechen, ist alles nur kleine Lappalie.

‘Power always needs abstraction. To be controlled, reality’s unwieldy complexity needs to be slotted in models, …that allow for standardization and manipulation. Nature and social life are bureaucratically indigestible in their raw form and must be pre-processed to be seen and shaped.’

Despite darkness, anger or sadness, may there be a rainbow ahead.

I am guiding/giving/performing a workshop on #AIethics (my twist), #art (my non-interpretation) and #AIslob (you know, Jesus as shrimp etc). This Saturday afternoon, 14.6, in #Vienna, join if you want 👇🏻🌈 (No prompting, no genius narratives, maybe crayons 🖍️) www.semmelweisklinik.at/collective-r...

‚It would be a disaster for our students to have no idea how to effectively use one of the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created,” Brown said. “AI is such a powerful tool for self-education…‘ To me the disaster is utter worldly incompetence and climate collapse, but that’s just me 🤨

Ich bin wieder mal kurz im Radio, es geht um #KI und Uni und ja, noch macht es einfach mehr Spaß mit Menschen zu sprechen @fm4.orf.at sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/...

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/dismantlin... 🔥 #empireofai @bcmerchant.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social

I just learned about the depth of these Thiel’ian approaches and tentacles - thanks to Saturday’s talk by @cryptologocentric.bsky.social … and here we go, now it’s Financial Times worthy. I am confused about who’s doing critique these days… www.ft.com/content/d332...

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Not sure Jesus would approve these kinds of blasphemic interventions, but well … www.science.org/content/arti...

viennadigitalcultures.at/en ⭐️

‘…I asked her whether she was also experiencing this—a slackening of the usual reflexive fact-checking impulse. … But there is now a category of things I see online which I register simply as indications that the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.’ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Finally … get your own sycophantic historical ‘facts’ summed up while packaged as a lipstick ad … what’s not to like? Like, let’s face it, historical or theoretical stuff is too grey anyway (⚡️🙄) techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/o...

Great read in the @financialtimes.com about AI ,slopaganda’

Thema der heutigen Session der Critical Data Discourses ist Data & AI mit Vorträgen von @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social und Helena Mihaljević, die einen Blick auf Diskriminierung und Bias von KI-Anwendungen und die gesellschaftlichen Folgen werfen. 📅 10.4.25; 14-16 Uhr ✅ Anmeldung unter: hu.berlin/64446

Very fascinating 👇🏻 chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/03/29/w...

Where we have lost hope in institutions, hype declares that AI can do the work of those institutions based on their data. But while AI tools can complete tasks and follow orders, they cannot replace collective decision-making — and must not be allowed to do so, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Ok, we know ‚reducing ideological bias’ means turning full on discriminatory, but someone should’ve told T that this ‚agenda’ will rather break ‚AI’ as a useful tech, turning it into looping nonsense, b/ this won’t just remove the ‚woke’ left from AI #shootingAIinthefoot t.co/1m4zh0K2Fw

The paper @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social and I wrote on “trustworthy AI” as empty signifier in EU discourse has a home now in this year’s first issue of Critical Policy Studies. Relevant reading in times that the EU wants to launch its own AI industry. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is just 🤯. When words disappear, people do too. What am I (a/ half of population) referred to then? Adam’s rip? No-man formerly known as woman? hhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E4.fhvs.5ol_5eG4a4hY

📽️ FULL VIDEO ONLINE (Un)trustworthy AI | Elevate Festival 2025 with Irma Mastenbroek, @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social, Alfred Ongere Moderation: Christoph Weiss alias @burstup.bsky.social youtu.be/Q9GN2duAAQA #ElevateFestival #TrustIssues

‘In November, Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup… , and defense contractor Palantir announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to “provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to [Anthropic’s] Claude 3 and 3.5 family of models on AWS”.’ www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/s...

(Un)trustworthy AI FRI, 7 March 2025 | Elevate Festival | Heimatsaal, Graz Part of "New Perspectives for Action", a project by Re-Imagine Europe. Co-funded by the European Union. @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social @burstup.bsky.social elevate.at/en/discourse...

My great colleague #MiraReisinger, the amazing #ElisabethScharang and I met recently to talk (critically) about AI, discrimination, women and democracy (yes, a lot). It’s was a delight and now it’s out there (but in German) #ScienceArena #ö1 #WomeninAIAustria oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

‘People have been trafficked from more than 60 countries. Around 120,000 people are likely held in scam compounds across Myanmar, according to one United Nations report from 2023, with another 100,000 captive in Cambodia.’ www.wired.com/story/starli...

So excited to speak in the panel on (Un)Trustworthy AI, my dream topic basically (at one of my favourite festivals in my old Heimat). I’m joined by great co-panelists 🌈 A big shout out to the fantastic discourse team backstage. Come and join us if you’re around. @elevatefestival.bsky.social

Happy the article addressed this mystic perpetuum mobile: no technology is ever just turning more human, but most tech research attempting this, ends up reductionist and discriminatory in how we understand humanness. See 99% emotion research in HCI & HRI, now AI👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

after 4 years the "critical" tech community will be comprised of objectively uncritical computer scientists who "defiantly" use words like "ethical", "participatory", or "human-centered" in proposals to train hegemonic algorithmic systems, because that's the form & extent of their hashtag-resistance

under the leadership of editor-in-chief @thatminesgirl.bsky.social the @engrstudies.bsky.social board members (incl. @dmriley.bsky.social & @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social) & former EOCs (Gary Downey & me) have put our names to an editorial regarding current "events" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#germanelections2025 #berlinbubble Some of the depressing (😭) results from this election are a bit surprising (like AfD surges in rich Western towns), but I don’t get the numbers for the AfD in B-Neukölln? What am I missing? Like, why? (Source: Die Zeit)

‚…software has, for the tech industry, become far more about extracting economic value than it has in providing it. When the tech industry becomes focused on penetrating markets (…) there's little consideration of whether said software is prioritizing the solution to a problem.‘ @edzitron.com

Another fantastic read and lots of ‚food for thought’ by Eryk Salvaggio 👌🏻 @cyberneticforests.bsky.social ‚ChatGPT is not a decision-making technology, it is a decision-removing technology. It creates text to fill the space where a decision is needed’ mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-th...