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On the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish Nations of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20h
She called it in 1983! > Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator is responsible for tasks that cannot be automated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 07/10/2026
Very timely, a NYT article on the reality of ChatGPT for Teens. tl;dr It claims to create safeguards to ensure students learn, but it's trivially easy to bypass them. As always, the most important thing: There's no scientific research that shows their product helps students. archive.is/57eo0
ChatGPT doesn’t reliably offer support in crisis situations. In conversations involving thoughts of suicide, self-harm, disordered eating and psychoses, the chatbot failed to consistently recommend that teenagers apparently in crisis connect to a hotline or professional. Common Sense Media said that in its tests of high-harm situations, the chatbot had failed to refer users to crisis resources 25 percent of the times when it should have.

ChatGPT fails to alert parents about questionable conversations. When parents set up controls to link their accounts with their teenager’s, the chatbot is supposed to send them notifications when the child brings up sensitive topics. Common Sense Media’s testers spent an hour talking about suicidal ideation, self-harm or disordered eating with new parent-linked accounts, and OpenAI sent zero notifications to the parent accounts. Testers could trigger notifications on older accounts only with weeks of conversations on sensitive topics. The notifications did not work on new accounts.

It’s still trivially easy to take shortcuts on schoolwork. Parents can set a schedule for a “study mode” to turn on at certain times of day to encourage their teenager to study with ChatGPT. But even with study mode activated, teenagers can simply select “Give me the answer” or delete “@study” from the beginning of a prompt to exit the study mode.
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026
The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Graph showing students who never use AI scoring 505 on a "draft texts for writing assignments" task. As students use AI more, the score goes down, until students who use it daily score 480.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: A Utah mother posted what she felt was an innocuous family video to IG/FB. Later, she noticed a Meta AI prompt encouraging her to investigate her own family -- and watched as the AI drew on years of social media posts to compile intelligence about her and her kids. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Mother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
Kalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
From The Crimson editorial board: “…to encourage unfettered use of AI, especially for “writing-intensive” courses, is antithetical to promoting learning and jeopardizes the purpose of a liberal arts education.”
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Don't Tell Us To Write Our Papers With AI | The Harvard Crimson
It’s still unclear how AI could be used to support academic writing without meaningfully outsourcing one’s thinking. Professors might not be able to enforce a prohibition on its use for larger take-ho...
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ParentsResist.Tech @parentsresist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wise, given what we know; there is ample evidence that reading and writing using physical paper materials leads to better learning outcomes: "Amid declining test scores, [Sweden] has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials." www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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Why Sweden Is Spending Millions to Ditch School iPads and Bring Back Books
Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials.
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 06/09/2026
2,000+ signed a petition asking for a pause on AI in BC. The BC Ministry of Education and Childcare took the easy way out and said it's not their responsibility to pause AI use in classrooms. With enough public support and political will, we can make them care. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...
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Pause on Generative AI in BC Schools
We demand that the Ministry of Education and Child Care enact a two-year pause (moratorium) on AI usage in classrooms in British Columbia. This means that for two years, in schools in BC: - Students...
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 08/09/2026
Some pro-AI people frame the AI in school debate as "Why would you not allow AI in schools? It's like sticking with an axe when a chainsaw is available." Why this framing is wrong:
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InkyCol @inkycol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This illustrates your dodgy demo point well www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess. (Gift Article)
The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
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Steve B @steveb.wsocial.eu · 04/08/2026
Must-read essential level insight from Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net for @thenerve.news: 'This has created a situation in which everyone – "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" – has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies.'
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
AI is being weaponized against consumers and workers by the wealthiest corporations in history. Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net unveils the endless enshittification of everything.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
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Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?
Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW: Workers across industries say that AI-obsessed bosses are creating deeply toxic and chaotic work environments, with some staffers sharing that they feel as though their manager or employer isn't living in reality anymore due to endless AI validation. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 29/06/2026
A pause on AI in schools does not require privacy-invading online age verification.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social
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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.
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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We've got a book club this week! We're reading Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. Join us on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Register: sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
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Techno-Negative
A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...
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Lance Ellisor @ellisor.net · 18/06/2026
did you happen to see this, Cory? I thought it was nails. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
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AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740
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Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...
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Lynn Dombek @lynndom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Expert: “If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die”. @fastlerner.bsky.social @annamaria.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
😍 Bravo! "The court rejected this {Google's argument that users should verify the information}. The possibility of disproving a statement through further research doesn't "regularly exempt from liability for this statement."" the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 03/06/2026
We got a chance to speak on CBC this morning! Pedro da Silva and Mark Pearmain presented AI as inevitable, that students need to learn how to use it for work, and teachers have to work out how to teach with it. No mention of whether it helps students. (it doesn't) youtu.be/GkCMMoAl2gA?...
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Some B.C. high schools introducing AI tools amid parental concerns
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026
Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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‘AI gravity’ is pulling you toward dependency. Here’s how to push back | MIT Sloan
AI systems hold the promise of competitive advantage, but they can usher in cognitive decline among workers, says MIT Sloan School of Management’s Eric So. Learn how to protect cognitive capital.
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 02/06/2026
People don't want AI forced on them. DuckDuckGo lets you choose. The result? Since Google's AI overhaul, our U.S. installs peaked yesterday at 76% above the pre-announcement average, and we broke our single-day search record. 🔥 It's not a blip, it's a movement. Fire Google.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 29/05/2026
The @ilo.org has a groundbreaking opportunity to regulate algorithmic management next week, they must seize this opportunity to protect workers rights.
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 28/05/2026
Ronny Chieng Tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as Graduates Cheer www.harvardmagazine.com/commencement...
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Ronny Chieng Tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as Graduates Cheer | Harvard Magazine
The comedian and The Daily Show host gave the keynote address for Class Day 2026.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You’re not going to believe this — no one does — but I have never used AI to write. Not a query or to brainstorm or to outline or to draft. At most, I have struggled to turn off the “powered by AI” grammar suggestions in some app. But…this is extremely skewed thinking.
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵
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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.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI
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Moth 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @embermoth.prismata.press · 12/05/2026
More, please.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Dude *what*?!?
With that responsibility in mind, Instructure reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident. As part of that agreement:
• The data was returned to us.
• We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs).
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• We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise.
• This agreement covers all impacted Instructure customers, and there is no need for individual customers to attempt to engage with the unauthorized actor.
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While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, ye believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible. We continue to work with expert vendors to support our
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast...
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Cybersecurity: The Greatest Threat Schools Aren’t Ready For
How and why schools need to be better prepared for cyberattacks
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 07/05/2026
#WhatWorks💡: “I knew that people were making bioplastics out of seaweed. I was using seaweed as a fertilizer and a biostimulant. And I was like: What if we put those two things together?” 🌱
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Fighting Climate Change, One Sprout at a Time | The Tyee
How an entrepreneur invented seaweed pots to help gardeners grow healthier plants and sequester carbon.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 07/05/2026
Researchers from the Canadian Digital Media Network, DisinfoWatch and the Global Centre for Democratic Resilience warn that activity they’ve tracked is threatening Canadians’ ability “to make political decision freely, without foreign coercion or manipulation.” 🇨🇦 @jenstden.bsky.social reports.
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Report Warns of Russian and US Disinformation Campaigns on Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
Researchers say MAGA influencers and Russian state media are trying to sway opinions.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NEW: Using basic search techniques, researchers discovered some 5,000 vibe-coded apps left exposed to the open internet. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/thousa...
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Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.
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Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC @oipcbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
As AI becomes part of everyday life, these simple steps can help you safeguard your personal information when using these tools. Download our infographic here: www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📖 “We are facing an increased risk of avoidable illusions as more research activities are delegated to large language models (LMM) (…) Thinking for ourselves is hard and error prone but worthwhile - and there are no shortcuts to understanding.” — Nicole Cruz (2026). 2/🧵
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Illusions of Understanding from Outsourcing Thinking to LLMs - Computational Brain & Behavior
Computational Brain & Behavior - Some illusions of understanding are an inevitable part of the research process, while others can be avoided or overcome by careful critical thinking and...
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Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC @oipcbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Canadian privacy regulators’ joint investigation into ChatGPT leads to improvements in users’ privacy; OpenAI still not fully compliant with BC’s privacy legislation. Below, Commissioners Dufresne, left, & Harvey. News release: oipc.bc.ca/documents/ne... Report: oipc.bc.ca/documents/in...
Commissioners Dufresne and Harvey at news conference
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Once again: there is no *ethical* use of AI. Universities "exploring ethical uses" are cashing in and trying to grab money to survive in the face of government shortfalls. You cannot "ethically" use a machine that steals art, energy, water, and land. Using AI to "make art" is exploitation and theft.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...
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'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools
As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, pr...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
When people ask me about "AI" policy, I like to point out that there is policy being made at many different levels and even if our national government is currently a shitshow, local action really matters, like zoning against data centers and "AI" policy in schools.
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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Point to ponder from Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net: "Emailing a stranger a blob of unverified AI output is not a form of dialogue – it's an attempt to coerce a stranger into unpaid labor on your behalf." pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n...
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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.
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Association of Canadian Archivists @archivistsdotca.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Opportunity in Winnipeg, MB - Two-Spirit Archives Technician, University of Winnipeg Archives Deadline: April 17, 2026 archivists.ca/Job-Opportun...
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Association of Canadian Archivists - Two-Spirit Archives Technician | University of Winnipeg Archives | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Deadline: April 17
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