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/...

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"

Join us tomorrow at 1 pm for Dr. Nicholas Guardiano’s talk, "Emerson's Aesthetic Transcendentalist Legacy: The Idea of Beauty in American Art," in the Center for Dewey Studies (Morris Library Basement). We will have snacks and beverages available, and you are also welcome to bring your lunch.

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

Hot off the press! It's the JIME Special Collection, Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices edited by myself, @eam0.bsky.social, Giselle Ferreira and Kyungmee Lee Check it out if interested in #AI in #Education (or metaphors generally) jime.open.ac.uk/collections/...

For those who don't know, there is a gofundme set up for Helen's family. They are very humble to not mention it, so I will. www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

Please consider contributing to this gofundme, this is really important for helping support Helen's family

Besides the personal tragedy, Helen's untimely passing leaves their family in a difficult financial situation. Donate to support them:

A gofundme fund for Helen de Cruz's children, set up with Helen's blessing by @marcusarvan.bsky.social:

Free ECR/PGR workshop in Nottm next month. Details in the thread below, email or DM me to register. It will be a fun and interesting day. Please share.

Frustrating but imho accurate description from @amyko.phd 's trip report from #CHI2025 - the largest academic conference on human-computer interaction. medium.com/bits-and-beh...

Prof Pat Thomson has written about this and I find it so very useful patthomson.net/2021/07/05/t...

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620 See more details below:

How can anyone cultivate a moral relationship to creative and intellectual work – their own and others' – if we're building it atop (or rather, pushing a button to autogenerate from) a technology of deception and theft? 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-plagiari...

I published a new article on "AI & the Disruption of Personhood" in the Oxford Intersections doi.org/10.1093/9780... 👤 Can AI possess personhood or be part of our personhood? @esdit.bsky.social @utwente.bsky.social @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social #oxforduniversitypress #oupacademic #ethics #ai (1/4)

New article on AI and epistemic agency published in the journal Social Epistemology www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Hello bsky! Hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services. wellreadherring.com/editing Reposts appreciated!

Five themes from #SIGCSE2025: amyjko.medium.com/sigcse-2025-...

My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What if technology *isn’t* changing faster than it’s ever changed before? 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/not-so-fast/...

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social #bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

There's three new sofa videos on my channel: What Is Phenomenology? - youtu.be/S9_t1IxOV-k What Is A Case Study? - youtu.be/LmkrOrog7TM What Is Indigenous Research? - youtu.be/dqsr4Q_5q8k0

🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil? Join us in person or online ✨👩🏻‍💻❣️ to celebrate emerging research practices in Brazil and kick off a Global South network! www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

Scientific Integrity Question Consider a fictional AI system M, and a scientist S who wishes to use M in their research pipeline (e.g., for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, M is not fully understood by S. In your opinion, is it acceptable that S uses M in their research pipeline?

🤖 From narratives of AI to its ethical landscape - @coeckelbergh.bsky.social takes us through a philosophical journey on the #HCAI Podcast. What does responsible #AI development really mean? 🔗 Tune in at hcai.se/podcast/24-1... #ethicalAI #humancenteredAI #responsibleAI #aidemocracy

Today is publication day for the new book - Critical Data Studies. But since my copies are stuck in Holyhead parcel pileup & open access version not yet available on publisher website I'm saving marketing stuff to new year. As a launch day it's a bit of an anti-climax! But it's no longer 'in press'

▪Hot off the Press! ▪AI ethics as a complex and multifaceted challenge: decoding educators’ AI ethics alignment through the lens of activity theory ▪Jaber Kamali, Muhammet Furkan Alpat & Aras Bozkurt educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....

I have a draft of a paper on AI that I would really, really like some feedback on. It's about whether it's a good idea to use AI technologies to persuade people of things (spoiler: I say no). You can find it here if you are so inclined: philpapers.org/rec/MCKSOS

Reading this fabulous paper on reporting qual research results by Braun and Clarke @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social and recommend you do too (it's also open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deadline for this CFP extended to Jen 17th.

1/ Will AI autotune my essay (Cormier 2023)? Are AI sceptics tilting at windmills in a quixotic questto be aligned with yesterday’s epistemic landscape (Perrotta 2023)? Is using ChatGPT like“eating plastic for your cognitive agency and natural intelligence” (Nephew 2023)?

Really hope that "MiniEdTech" catches on! Terrific special issue of counterprojects to the dominance of Big Edtech in education, edited by @roopikarisam.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social

This is a good analysis explaining why the scientic migration to bluesky worked when it failed to take hold with mastadon, threads, or linkedin. The key is network effects: Moving an entire community is hard and people are reluctant to leaveit www.science.org/content/arti...

Really interesting and important discussions. I tend to side with you (and @lastpositivist.bsky.social paper below) that the status quo is likely worse than many alternatives. It's a nontrivial problem replacing the edifice though; burning it is not enough. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...

@nicwhitton.bsky.social and I will be hosting a CSET 2025 – Critical studies of education and technology meeting in Durham on the 21st February, 2025 (this event is globally organised by @neilselwyn.bsky.social ). Free registration is now open www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cset-2025-...

Even though X/Twitter is imploding, our study on the ethical quoting of social media posts applies regardless of the platform. Check out our (@lenandlar.bsky.social) paper from 2022, might be useful particularly for #education researchers. doi.org/10.1177/1747...

AI hype is making AI researchers forget painfully learned lessons core to the field. There's an emerging cope that progress in capabilities isn't slowing down—it's just invisible as benchmarks are saturated; vibe checks are useless because models are now superhuman so we can't perceive improvement.

Philosophy of AI / AI Ethics Syllabi, Lessons, Readings dailynous.com/2024/12/10/p...

"What AI can really do" (also available in German as: "Was KI wirklich kann") from the LMU Munich newsroom. Interview snippets/statements on AI, featuring me on "how human should AI be or behave?", & various LMU colleagues on numerous AI topics: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... #aiethics #ai #philosophy

New preprint, w/ @lilianedwards.bsky.social: 'Reputation Management in the #ChatGPT Era': www.reubenbinns.com/blog/wp-cont... We consider what legal tools can protect individuals when #GenAI outputs lead to reputational /privacy harms with a particular focus on defamation and data protection law.

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

AI as brain rot 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-robots-h...