Apparently GenAI is going to save a lot of languages from extinction. How exactly? Like this? Has tech ever saved a language? If not, why do people keep making this grandoise claim as though it was self-evident? Perhaps it is speech communities that save languages. aclanthology.org/2020.coling-...

PhD scholarship: Safeguarding Australia's Indigenous languages in the AI era. For Australian students with preference to First Nations Australians, working on the ground with remote communities in northern Australia. Likely March deadline for study beginning mid-year. Contact [email protected].

Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do? Read my four-page article, presented in multiple NLP conference keynotes in 2024, rejected by multiple ACL venues in 2025. Newly updated with 7 proposals for what we can do differently. What do you think? Let's discuss! arxiv.org/abs/2512.24863

Reading the AI ethics literature feels like doomscrolling the most outrageous newsfeed. It flips from the sanguine to the alarming, from infuriating algorithmic solutionism to disturbing insights, trapping attention for days on end. Has anyone talked about the harms of exploring AI harms? 😵‍💫

ACL terminology: "Paper" = anything with lots of tables with numbers. "Position paper" = anything critical or just deeper. I propose: "Paper" = intellectual contribution. "Engineering paper" = anything purely technocratic.

We Don't Trust Those Mobiles: critical reflections on generative AI for minoritised languages and new ways forward. Presentation delivered at LT4All (Paris, February 2025) #IndigenousLanguages #firstvoices #NLP #ethics bit.ly/bird-lt4all-...

Generative AI extracts behavioural data and takes over human agency. Augmentative Intelligence carefully enhances human agency. What would it be like to take this other fork, and seek a path towards a non-extractive NLP committed to augmentative solutions? 🧵(updated from Twitter/X Aug'24) 1/5

Language Technology and the Metacrisis, my keynote presentation at ALTA'24, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcU_...