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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 14m

We will be judged by young people for the damage we did to their health by letting Covid rip repeatedly through schools and colleges. All while we insisted hybrid or remote was too hard, but pumping schools full of tech and gen ai. This Covid wave could have been mitigated with remote learning

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7m

These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

Philip Morris to provide free cases of cigarettes to area schools amid debates over effects of tobacco on health.

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning

Microsoft Elevate Washington is a sweeping new initiative that will provide free access to AI-powered software and training for all 295 public school districts and 34 community and technical colleges ...

www.geekwire.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12h

AI in education is an investors' dream as education is a huge sector to get locked in for big returns while little is being returned on their investments elsewhere

AI in education is speculative capitalism at full throttle

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13h

AI in education is a policy discourse without substance except economic speculation about "jobs for the future"

AI in education policy talks about "AI literacy" or "responsible AI" but doesn't consider the irresponsibilities of those promoting AI in education

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13h

AI in education amplifies student surveillance

AI in education makes surveillance companies into trusted educational providers

AI in education surveillance techniques always threaten to creep beyond their original scope of operations

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13h

AI in education amplifies and intensifies educational systems of product-centredness

AI in education reproduces the idea of de-skilled, casualized pedagogy where the computer is the primary reader of the curriculum/syllabus and the tutor plays a subsidiary role

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13h

AI in education centres entrepreneurs as experts in teaching and learning

AI in education is based mostly on technical potential not educational needs

AI in education locks learning into models that afford summarization instead of archives of knowledge

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 13h

Instead, it is necessary to understand that while our current relations are ones of alienation and subjugation, they are still relations. We are not tasked with building relations where there previously were none, but with forging new relations, healing relations, and...

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 13h

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13h

AI in education amplifies existing biases against marginalized or vulnerable groups

AI in education is not evidence-based but based on speculation and proof of concept claims

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13h

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

And not just because people who lose their health insurance will die. They will, but that’s not the only reason. Rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and community health centers depend on Medicaid payments to stay open.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

Cursed post.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

“Whereas criminal suspects in this past may have been incriminated by a Google query on, say, how to clean up bloodstains, a more comprehensive, detailed back-and-forth with a tool like ChatGPT gives investigators far more opportunities to prove intent and mindset…”

What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial

User exchanges with ChatGPT and other AI tools are a valuable new form of evidence for law enforcement in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

www.rollingstone.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

Even if OpenAI claims it's reducing political partiality in LLM outputs to satisfy conservative agitators, since science is now so politicized that basic sociological concepts like structural privilege are coded "woke", etc etc, then these models must undermine fundamental educational values.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

“Will OpenAI send police to your door if you advocate for AI regulation? Nathan Calvin, a lawyer who shapes policies surrounding the technology at Encode AI, claims OpenAI did just that.”

OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door

OpenAI reportedly wanted to find out if the advocates received funding from Elon Musk.

www.theverge.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17h

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 17h

"the American people continue to be reliant on little more than insurers’ promises that they are not taking potential life-and-death decisions away from doctors and giving them to machines.”

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 18h

Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/b... via @statnews.com

Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI

A key Democrat is asking top Medicare Advantage insurers about how they use artificial intelligence in decisions about medical care and coverage.

www.statnews.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

“Some 1,500 police and sheriff's departments were flying drones by late 2024 — a 150% jump since 2018…”

AI drones are America's newest cops

AI-powered drones can do some police work — but using them raises new questions about surveillance and privacy.

www.axios.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 19h

"An executive order decreed that government agencies may not procure 'woke' AI models that feature 'incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism.'"

It's important to interrogate what 'bias' means to fascists.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20h

‪That Carolyn Bertozzi is the 2022 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry is relevant to this thread.

Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 20h

My 14-yr-old and I were playing with Sora, gave it two prompts of things I/we had done that day 1/n

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 20h

Yeet this shit into the sun.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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