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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

"By normalizing the use of AI products in academia, universities contravene codes of conduct and contradict their own missions and betray their core values, harming science and society in the proces”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“institutional conditions have encouraged, and rewarded, unethical behaviour long before the current AI hype cycle, but the normalization of AI usage and the ubiquitous false claims regarding AI capabilities seem to further obfuscate the boundaries of proper conduct”

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“TRANSPARANCY requires that the AI technologies are open source and computationally reproducible.”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“SCRUPULOUSNESS demands, a.o. that scientists only use AI products whose functionality is well-specified and validated for its specific scientific usage (cf. @johankwisthout.bsky.social 2024; Kwisthout and Renooij 2025)”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“To add insult to injury, many metaphorical … phrases (especially used to describe ANNs; see Table 1) — like train, learn, hallucinate, reason — are applied to machines and result in distorting how we perceive these machines: humanising them while dehumanising us”

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Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“When we engage with the public, we notice people think that AI, as a field or a technology, appeared on the scene in the last 3 years. And they experience confusion … when they discover the field and the technologies have existed for decades (…)”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“(…) jargon infused with technology industry hype, such as shown in Table 1, does not meaningfully explain. (…) We strive to remain critical of the vocabulary the technology industry coopts and deploys, and to remain respectful of scientific terminology.”

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“Although some differentiate AI and non-AI systems by appealing to generative models versus other types of AI, we are convinced that this does not bring clarity …, and we can fall head first into misuse of terminology and fostering industry hype (see … Figure 1)”

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Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative ad- versarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discrim- inant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

“AI has always been a marketing phrase that erodes scientific inquiry and scholarly discussion by de- sign, leaving the door open to pseudoscience, exclusion, and surveillance.”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 22d

"The technology industry is taking advantage of us, sometimes even speaking through us, to convince our students that these AI technologies are useful (or necessary) and not harmful.”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14d

If academics & researchers in AI (like myself) don’t want the coming AI winter to destroy our field, we need to be accountable for how we allowed another hype cycle on our watch. We have the expertise to stop it. We need to speak truth to power in our own institutions!

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 18h

Reposting this, because I found this short article an encouraging model of how one academic discipline is proactively engaging AI and reshaping it for disciplinary needs.

Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 5d

Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence

They consider how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the way mathematical research is conducted and discuss how future developments of this technology will transform mathematical practice.

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Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence - Nature Physics

In this comment, we consider how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the way mathematical research is conducted and discuss how future developments of this technology will transform mathematical practice.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

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Flink og snill Vegard om sommeren @rakettkirurg.bsky.social · 18h

Jaggu greit det ikke skjer viktigere ting i verden enn landskamp mot folkemordere og… det her

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«Menn i overgangsalderen er den glemte minoriteten som lider i stillhet»
Orjan Greiff Johnsen Jurist og skribent

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 16h

Now generative AI is producing new bias challenges. One is the underrepresentation of children with additional needs, which "may result in technologies that misunderstand, overlook or pathologise neurodivergent and disabled learners"
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How AI bias could undermine inclusive education

The promise of personalised learning masks very real risks that demand careful attention from educators and policymakers

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 17h

Denne serien her. Bad Sisters.

Du tenker i første episode "joda, det her er jo bra men vil det bare bli en how-did-they-do-it?" og så... Blir det så mye mer !😯

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 19h

Er så heldig og får snakke om The Sims med Christine Kærulv på Rosa bøker den 19. Oktober.

Kom kom!

OFM 2025: Å vokse opp i og med The Sims - Samtale med Christine Kærulv om "Motherlode"

Event in Oslo, Norway by Oslo flermediale - Nordic Multimedia Poetry Festival and 2 others on Sunday, October 19 2025

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10d

so this should be an article but whatever, you're getting an off the cuff thread because I have nothing but time

we'll do hurt locker lady's movie first because I don't think I have the strength to do jacobsen right now (and I don't own the book so I'll have to go pull references together)

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11d

I really would like to read a detailed debunking article from someone with this kind of experience on nuclear war plans about house of dynamite and/or jacobsen's book because all I see from like professional critics is the typical "chilling, sobering...she's obviously done her homework"

David Teter @dtc94133.bsky.social · 11d

Well, I suppose it can't be any worse than Annie Jacobsen's POS book. At least they got the Black Book right.
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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 23h

Dette har jeg også tenkt på mye i det siste at i spørsmålet om "det skjønne, det gode og det sanne" og hvor mye vekt som legges på det visuelt "skjønne" kontra narrativet (plottets konsistens, er det troverdig som uttrykk for "det sanne" og eventuelt budskap "det gode"). Om det ga mening?

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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 1d

Jeg skjønner at d r opptil flere gyldige grunner til d, men opplever d likevel som litt symptomatisk at denne ekstremt positive anmeldelsen av AHoD handler nesten utelukkende om estetikk og filmhåndverk og r nesten ribbet for noen analyse av plottet og om d henger i hop. www.nrk.no/filmpolitiet...

«Intenst virkelighetsnært»

ANMELDELSE: «A House of Dynamite»

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 23h

For a long time, I've been saying AI would obviously be used as propaganda machines by the right-wing billionaires that run them and the Trump administration they're aligned with. And AI bros kept telling me it would never happen (or even that it couldn't happen!)...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

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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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades