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Marcela Suarez

@marentierra.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Critical Intersectional perspectives on AI at School of AI, Radboud University

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Marcela Suarez

@marentierra.bsky.social

Thanks to you and leadership! Great work!

December 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM

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Iris van Rooij 💭

@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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Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

We have a name for that:
Critical Washing
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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 16d

"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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Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

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

Left: washing machine with the words “Critical Washing” on it.

Right: Quote: “When we critique AI, we should do so with intellectual honesty and in a principled way. Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing. (…) Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”

—Suarez, Müller, Guest, & van Rooij (2025) https://zenodo.org/records/15677840

November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@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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Dwayne Monroe

@cloudquistador.bsky.social

Another lesson we can take from this marketing release thinly disguised as high level overview is that 'the west' has never been serious about addressing climate change. The ad includes this statement, then blithely goes on to say: 'let's try it even though the Earth, she burns!'

Picture of an excerpt from the article that reads as follows: "Of course, the discussion is not limited to this one topic. The use of generative Al is clearly not uncontroversial either when it comes to environmental impact, data provenance, transparency and privacy. In this blog, we only zoom in on the issue mentioned in the title"

November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Thank you, Alex. Here's everything in one spot olivia.science/ai

I recommend the project syndicate piece with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social 💖