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Marcela Suarez
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Lecturer in Critical Intersectional perspectives on AI at School of AI, Radboud University
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adolfont.github.io
Critical washing, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social !
February 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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olivia.science
Selfish AI: "I will be thinking ill of you [...] because you have made yet another part of the economy impossible to engage with ethically.

This is how societies die. [...] I have nothing left but contempt for "it is what it is."

www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish... h/t @adolfont.github.io
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
marentierra.bsky.social
AI technologies have been actively promoted in universities under the guise of efficiency, time optimization, and the fear of missing out or “falling behind.”
February 5, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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altibel.bsky.social
In our position paper we looked at how the core principles of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for #ResearchIntegrity applies to AI usage. @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @marentierra.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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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January 22, 2026 at 8:56 PM
marentierra.bsky.social
This is a must-read if you want to understand AI colonialism and current apps offering all kinds of services (romance, therapy, and more)
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16d
Pygmalion Displacement:

9) Social bonding: Do the users and/or creators of the AI develop interpersonal-like relationships with it?

10) Psychological service: Does the AI function to subserve and enhance the egos of its creators and/or users?

PDF: doi.org/10.31235/osf... @spookyachu.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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jsanofranchini.bsky.social
kinda proud that my middle schooler sent this to me 🤣
simple drawing of a person gripping another person's mouth shut; the second person is labeled "AI Overview"
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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olivia.science
Probably something like critical AI literacy or critical AI studies could work cc @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Putting ‘prompt quality’ into the ‘safeguards’ bin of AI scams

( @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social and I discuss the latter, here: zenodo.org/records/1778...)
December 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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olivia.science
Coming out of 3 week migraine (status migrainosus, look it up) & seeing my work — w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social — in Rolling Stone. Guess I shouldn't be as depressed anymore based on facts 😌
milesklee.bsky.social Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social · Dec 17
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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olivia.science
If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:

"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
Second half of my 3-minute opening statement for today's panel discussion.

In the panel, we each picked two papers to share on a handout for attendees and guide discussion. Mine were: zenodo.org/records/1706... and unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p... (click through to read titles/authors please!)
Screenshot of text continuing from the previous post. It reads as follows: And many AI tools have fewer benefits and more harms. Let’s start with harms to the environment. Using AI means using data centers. Data centers evaporate water, spew pollutants, and use so much energy that people’s home electricity bills increase near them. Beyond environmental harm, there are also social and mental harms. When a new drug comes out on the market, it has been well tested and regulated so that side effects are known and risks are minimal. AI has no such regulations, yet the side effects are extreme and the extent of risks are unknown. A teen was encouraged into suicide, adults have been driven to complete psychosis. AI is not just disrupting learning, it is disrupting our society, and not in a good way. Last, we have hubris. I’ll end with part of the quote that Guest et al. open their paper with: “The culture of AI is imperialist and seeks to expand the kingdom of the machine. The AI community is well organized and well funded [...] AI scientists believe in their revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all.” That quote is older than I am, from a past era of overhyped, unsustainable, and poorly-defined AI. Those were my original three words, by the way. I stand by them, but I felt my revision provides a better framework for reflection: hype, harm, and hubris. Thank you.
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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adolfont.github.io
Nobody has called me a technopessimist yet.

But I haven't done any research on this myself. I just try to make other people's research on the negative impact of LLMs reach as many people as possible.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Dec 12
Somebody needs to write at length of the unhinged nonsense of calling academics critical of a monstrous technology, esp ones with direct expertise in formalism & implementation details: technopessimist. Are climate experts called pessimists for believing in & fighting against the climate crisis? 1/2
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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altibel.bsky.social
Een paar foto's van de demo. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥
Een band spelend tijdens de mars Een protestboord: where to spend 1 billion €, book no bombs Een AOB hond in een backpack Een protestboord: Invest in scholarship, divest from scholasticide
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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olivia.science
Yup, as @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social and I say in Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

"[Guardrails] pose an infinite regress of humans in the loop needed to make pretend of what AI was supposed to solve"
extract from pages 4 and 5 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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igure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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olivia.science
That's us! Please keep signing: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

More here: olivia.science/ai#activism
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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birgittaj.bsky.social
Pure excellence.
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Dec 7
📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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igure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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emp1.bsky.social
An interesting approach. After a (very) quick read, I'd like to highlight the following:

"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..."
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olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Dec 2
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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iedamarcondes.com
Tudo bem que é treinado com material roubado, que gasta uma quantidade enorme de energia, que causa crise hídrica, que deixa as pessoas malucas, que faz adolescente se matar, que espalha desinformação, que deixa os bilionários mais ricos, mas pelo menos também causa câncer.
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Full reference:

* Suarez Estrada, M., Barbara, M., Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. Sustainability Dispatch, Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
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November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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adolfont.github.io
We have a name for that:
Critical Washing
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adolfont.github.io Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · Nov 16
"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'".

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November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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adolfont.github.io
Thanks, Iris!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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olivia.science
ah that (in your OP) is also called whitewashing, specifically ethics washing, see @marentierra.bsky.social Suarez, M., Müller, B.,Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
doi.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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altibel.bsky.social
A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026
www.euractiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM