You can’t make this stuff up. “Extremely personalised” has never felt more threatening (and invasive, given the ‘talk to GPT about anything in your life and world‘ discourse). Seems likely that a ‘personalized‘ GPT sales-bot is going to be shoved down our throats. How unimaginative.

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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Let me get this straight: I’m using a messaging app. Someone thought it would be a good idea to make the app begin to spam me with ‘useful tips’. But they’re also like you’re probably going to hate this so we are going to give you an option to block us. What was the point of this exercise?! Madness.

🎆 Are you interested in the role of mythmaking and metaphors in contemporary and historical research and deployment of AI? Join us on 6th June, 1-2.30pm, for exciting talks by Dr Audrey Borowski and @velocitygravity.bsky.social, followed by a Q&A

🖊️ sign up:
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✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke

Such fun to be surprised by libraries. Picked up a Tintin to sink into some old favorites and I guess I’m now going to be familiarizing myself with Scots!

Nothing really exists in education until there is an OECD test for it. So we can now expect the international "AI literacy" ranking results in 2030, in case any countries wanted yet another way to be seen to perform on a made-up education metric.
www.oecd.org/en/about/pro...

When I eventually defend my thesis I want to channel the confidence of my 4yo pulling out a drawing from inside her shoe. Why did you put it in there? “Just because”. Why would you choose to fold it into your sock?! “Because I could!!”. Exasperated huff. Mike drop.

📢 Closing this week! 📢
Supervised by @zeerak.bsky.social and starting Sept 2025, the project will examine the ethical implications of natural language processing.

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Gotta appreciate the straight-up imperialist ask here. None of that “we are the savior and here for your own good” facade. We know you’re at war but we want your minerals. Do you like your minerals or do you like your internet infrastructure? Choose.

Calling my dentist’s office and having to “talk” to a self-professed AI who literally yells “I’m here to HELP!” definitely tops my bizarre tech interactions list. Poor Emily the AI couldn’t quite tell when I’d finished speaking. Im confused, it is confused. Unplanned inefficiency at its best.

“To err is human but to mess things up seriously one needs a computer”. Loving how on the nose Yanis Vanoufakis’ Technofeudalism is. This is going to be my tongue in cheek response to folk who tell me tech/AI/(latest phrase) in xyz domain is not problematic because “people are flawed too”.

On Thursday, Feb 20 @ 1 pm ET, Lama Ahmad, @camillefrancois.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, @briana-v.bsky.social, and @borhane.bsky.social will examine red-teaming’s place in the evolving landscape of genAI evaluation and governance. RSVP and join us online! datasociety.net/events/red-t...

If there was ever a time to focus on the education of engineers, and justify why the system needs a complete overhaul, this would be it: “Workers for Doge, an unofficial government department with no congressionally approved mandate, have gained access to U.S treasury’s

“Duolingo but for anxiety”. What does that even mean?? Am I going to learn about anxiety in different languages? Tech bros tech bro-ing hard in their alternate universe where they are genius “disrupters”. And the 420 reference? Very subtle, har har.