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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18d

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

Poster of the Open Letter: Stop the uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia, with QR code

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent post on #ResistingAI
I am killjoy because I care about people & planet, and because I know that once these structures are built, it will be really hard to dismantle them.

Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

On Being a GenAI Killjoy

Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…

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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 1d

‘remigratie’ is het logische complement van ‘omvolking’. Beide klinken onschuldig als je de ideologische achtergrond niet kent, maar zijn in wezen diep racistisch.

Follow the Money @ftm.nl · 1d

‘Remigratie’ duikt op in de nieuwe verkiezingsprogramma’s van PVV, FvD, BBB en JA21. Dat is geen extremisme, beweren ze, slecht ‘een oplossing’. Maar is het echt zo onschuldig? Experts waarschuwen: ‘remigratie’ is in werkelijkheid een verhullende term voor deportatie.

Deze politieke partijen willen migranten deporteren

PVV, FvD, BBB en JA21 pleiten in hun verkiezingsprogramma’s voor het ‘remigreren’ van mensen met een migratieachtergrond. Daarmee normaliseren ze een rechts-extremistische term voor deportaties. Exper...

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 14h

🌾 #Fascism in liberal #democracy
📅 Tue 14/10, 19:30-21.00h, w time for discussion
📍 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
🚦 Free entrance, registration via link (there is also Zoom).
'Accountability without borders’ aims to create room for coping with the despair around the growing imperialism in the world.

Fascism in liberal democracy

Speakers: Willem Schinkel and Rogier van Reekum, with ample time for discussion with the audience

www.eventbrite.nl

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5h

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO

If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’

www.nwo.nl

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jul 29

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

title and abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 1 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26d

🩷💛 Check out @olivia.science ‘s CAIL website, with beautiful posters, video/podcast, papers and more! 🤩 olivia.science/ai

Colorful poster with text “Have you considered NOT using AI”, and a QR code going to our preprint “Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ technologies”

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18d

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 7h

People find facts hard as recognising them demands change, and people find change hard. Some habits of social convention are the greatest stumbling blocks to human advancement.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15d

Sometimes it feels like Dutch colleagues want you to pretend as if evidently false claims about AI are true, just to keep things “gezellig”.

This is what keeps us in the mess. Are we scientists, or not?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

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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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

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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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

www.nature.com

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 2d

Responsible use of dice 🎲 in finance.

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2d

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26d

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Sep 7

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...

"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in

with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2d

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: 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 collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

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 adversarial 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 discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

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.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 2d

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d

10K Word Premium: OpenAI is another unprofitable, desperate AI startup building products on its own models, spending $2.60 to make $1. Sora 2 is a reckless attempt to grow ChatGPT that costs them at least $5 per generated video. They need to raise $20bn+ before EoY.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai/

OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup

What is OpenAI? I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked t...

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

Move info on this website: olivia.science/ai by @olivia.science

QR code goes here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Poster with colour duo background and QR code, with the text “Have you considered not using AI?”

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tonsanx2.bsky.social @tonsanx2.bsky.social · 20d

"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."

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

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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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 · 15d

Let’s say, hypothetically, you appreciated our position paper and @olivia.science and I would be recording answers to questions about it. What questions would you have?

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

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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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 · 13d

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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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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