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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Jul 1

Many thanks to the brilliant editors at @criticalai-journal.bsky.social my article is out: Endangered Judgment: Joseph Weizenbaum, Artificial Intelligence, and the Imperialism of Instrumental Reason url: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Endangered Judgment: Joseph Weizenbaum, Artificial Intelligence, and the Imperialism of Instrumental Reason | Critical AI | Duke University Press

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · 27d

My review of @shannonvallor.bsky.social 's The AI Mirror is now up at IEEE. A profound read: "In the age of AI. . .the courage to act autonomously seems to be on the wane. Vallor, as Weizenbaum did too, seeks new metaphors for fortifying it." ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...

<i>The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking</i>–Shannon Vallor (New York, NY, USA: Oxford Univ. Press, 2024)

Presents reviews for the following list of books, The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking–Shannon Vallor (New York, NY, USA: Oxford Univ. Press, 2024).

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · 27d

Maybe I need to revisit the podcast. What I recollect is he felt incredibly fond of HE and the humanities. That anecdote about his earliest memory eating Fruit Loops in the college cafeteria resonated. He treasured HE -- he was just in despair that not enuf other ppl did to sustain the humanities.

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · 27d

About AI generated books: Perhaps Amazon should reverse its policies by an order of magnitude: Last I checked authors were limited to uploading ~4 new books a day. The reverse seems more sensible: authors should be limited to uploading 1 new book every 4 years.

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · 27d

Luved this piece + Burnett's interview on Hard Fork. AI as a provocation 2 recall how the liberal arts aspire to give "shape to humans equal to the challenge of freedom." Pushing back against Burnett: imo free societies rest on citizens knowing how to express themselves in public w/o the aid of AI.

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · 28d

Wait. . .did Victor Miller, the AI mayoral candidate from Cheyenne, move to Albania?

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here's another: "AI is like a calculator." Don't bother using other analogies (like "empire") that might better highlight the way AI extracts labor and resources from around the world.

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 28

Brilliant! Here's another "feel the agi". We want you to regard the tech as a feeling that is beyond words thereby trancending the language critical ai uses to unmask what artificial intelligence actually is.

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tom Clancy's Long Island Compromise

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'd be psyched to see a paper on Weizenbaum's relationship with Winner and/or Turkle. Do the syllabi exist? Are there any recollections from students? How involved was Weizenbaum in gen ed curricular reform at MIT?

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 25

Interesting CFP. Are we mythologizing ELIZA and/or Weizenbaum?

Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · Aug 25

The #CfP for the Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of #ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” in the Weizenbaum Journal was just published! Please have a look, consider to submit your work, and forward the Call to interested colleagues. Thanks! ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wj...

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 21

+ Finally I agree that the quality of discourse on Bluesky is wanting. But is X the alternative? As Margaret Mitchell reminds us in one of her last posts on that platform, X is no longer Twitter. Sometimes the medium truly is the message.

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's true we need to avoid the caricature u c in Carr. At the same time we need to avoid caricaturing tech critics as mindless narcissists channelling tech lash rhetoric. To use dana boyds formulation it's more complicated than that.

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 21

IMO Carr deserves more credit than u extend to him. His concept of miswanting comes from the empirical research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. +

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 21

U r right that Its Complicated is exemplary ethnography (as 2 her colloborator Alice Marwick's Status Update). But its not perfect. She maintains teenagers r as they have always been. Few historians who believe in change over time would make that assertion. (We talk about this in our book) +

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 21

Worthy cautions. Still, the qualification that few fit this non ideal type is important. We r currently on our 35th hour plus interview in our current research. We aspire to do the ethnography u celebrate. At the same time i still maintain along w/ Winner that AI has politics. +

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 15

"cognitive labor as a political resource". I'm interested in what that means. Sounds a bit like Richard Sennett, who argues, contra Arendt, that the practice of a technical craft is not necessarily inimical to the development of statecraft. (cf The Craftsmen)

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 15

Interesting stuff. Nice to c empirical work on this. Worth noting that the relationship btwn household work and the capacity to do politics is a question which Aristotle, Arendt and republican theorists have been interested in for a very long time. Worth drawing some connections?

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 13

2 other metaphors possibly worth adding to fuel discussion: the computer metaphor (AIs are brains are AIs) and the notion that AIs are empires (that act imperialistically).

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 13

A great document (though as a fellow instructor I feel an obligation to write my own). The point is to get students to work thru these ethical issues themselves and the analogy (metaphor?) approach u use at the end is particularly productive. Luv the mirror metaphor (esp as Vallor xplores it). +

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Patrick Lin @patricklin1.bsky.social · Aug 7

TEACHERS: If you're looking for a reading to assign, to help explain why you're banning AI from your classroom, here ya go.

There didn't seem to be one article that rounds up all the major issues. I tried to do that here, so it's a long read. Feel free to use/share as you like.

Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits

A reading for your students

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Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Right on. Because citation is what authorizes truth claims. And citation is precisely what AI undermines.

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 6

Totally agree with the benefits of written note-taking for committing things to memory! Tho, recalling the Phaedrus, an even more ancient technique (recitation) arguably works even better.

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 5

@milesbrundage.bsky.social on X: "Never ask a man his salary. .or an AI company its definition of AGI" Which is why at OpenAI Sutskever rallied ppl by exhorting them 2 "feel the AGI". Like Nye's tech sublime AGI is felt rather than defined. It acts as a social glue precisely cuz its ineffable.

Luke Fernandez @aiintelligentsia.bsky.social · Aug 5

As Ilya Sutskever likes to say "feel the AGI"!

Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is incredible

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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is incredible

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