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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Sep 16

project applications will continue until morale improves

Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · Sep 16

I'm hiring again! Please share. I'm recruiting a postdoc research fellow in human-centred AI for scalable decision support. Join us to investigate how to balance scalability and human control in medical decision support. Closing date: 4 October (AEST).
uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/

Recruitment

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Sep 15

Maybe the issue is not that AI will kill us all. Maybe the issue is: it will not care about us

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Sep 15

I just started Mordew. The beginning is not working for me, maybe there is a correlation :) let me know if you try

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Sep 6

have I ever felt lonely? sure. has it ever occurred to me to take that talk to ChatGPT& its LLM cousins? Hell-no. Why?

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Aug 29

The algorithm is a good servant but a bad master www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/ny...

Nye funn om budbransjen: – Stor nød og desperasjon

De vasker huset ditt, kjører drosja du tar hjem fra byen og leverer mat på døra. En stor del av Norges «nye underklasse» har en app som sjef, ifølge nye rapporter.

www.nrk.no

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Aug 24

As with many aspects of our digital lives, responsibility is too diffuse for accountability. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said

The chatbots are lying about me.

www.theatlantic.com

AIhub.org @aihub.org · Aug 21

Many congratulations to the three winners of the distinguished paper award at #IJCAI2025 @ijcai.org
aihub.org/2025/08/20/c...

Congratulations to the #IJCAI2025 distinguished paper award winners - ΑΙhub

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Aug 21

English is not mother-language for most in academia. We could have used LLM to translate the mails in our native language we send and learn from the languages. instead we prompt LLM in english and send that drivel around. Same tech, different human choice

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Aug 17

tldr: toss a coin to your library if you like the chatting AIs too much www.khrono.no/ingen-sannhe...

Ingen sannhet uten kritisk tenkende

Vi tar alle fram telefonen, når vi skal sjekke fakta. Men er det vi finner ut der sant?

www.khrono.no

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Aug 14

safety is optional

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 14

A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 14

A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you can prove, then you are not talking about trusting but knowing. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Will we ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks?

An example from the history of mathematics shows how views on the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence can quickly start to change

www.newscientist.com

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 25

The fifth element is information

a woman in a leopard print coat is holding a statue of a skull .

ALT: a woman in a leopard print coat is holding a statue of a skull .

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 23

I think this is wrong. You cannot sell what is your human right. At least you should not be able to. Tech or not.

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 23

We sold our privacy cheaply, creating surveillance billionaires in the process. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Obsessed with the Coldplay kiss cam story? I was too, until I realised the sinister truth at the heart of it | Arwa Mahdawi

Nobody should expect to go to a huge concert and expect privacy, but the incident is a jarring reminder of the reach of the surveillance state and the internet’s insatiable appetite for public shaming...

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 15

In light of Meta-takes-your-messages-data a throwback to this excellent article scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol75/...

Algorithmic Destruction

Contemporary privacy law does not go far enough to protect our privacy interests, particularly where artificial intelligence and machine learning are concerned. While many have written on problems of ...

scholar.smu.edu

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 13

We cite what we are aware of. Let that sink in.

a man is standing in front of a brick wall reading a piece of paper

ALT: a man is standing in front of a brick wall reading a piece of paper

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 13

I have reached that stage where I read an old paper of mine and think: mhm this is actually rather a good idea

a woman stands in front of a white board with oh god written on the bottom

ALT: a woman stands in front of a white board with oh god written on the bottom

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 6

to tie you over, Starter Villain by John Scalzi

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 1

Suffering from the heat wave ☀️☀️🥵🥵? How about a nice postdoc in AI in Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴. Our summers are always cool 😎🆒🌡️. Read the fine print!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Lead AI postdoctoral research fellow position in Information Science and/or Media Studies (283570) | University of Bergen

Job title: Lead AI postdoctoral research fellow position in Information Science and/or Media Studies (283570), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hashtag 25272 and 25271 Dagstuhl

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jun 28

I always thought smokers had the unfair advantage to be able to just go out and take a break in social situations. I will start using “I need to go and monitor the perimeter” #murderbot

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jun 12

There is unethical use of AI and unethical lack of use of AI… like when you murder the room with powerpoint

Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jun 9

i am pretty sure even chat gpt would not have gotten it this wrong

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jun 9

Former PM of Norway stated 4 days ago we should reduce teaching non useful subjects like humanities and social sciences 😆 burn the kant we’ve got too many 🎶

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jun 9

I am sorry, what? 🥹

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Marija Slavkovik @mslavkovik.bsky.social · Jun 4

Large Language Models small labour market effects. Turns out, LLMs are not automagic, humans need to use them with skill www.nber.org/system/files...

www.nber.org

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