Reposted by Robin T.Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 23hI wrote an extensive email to upper admin about its promotion of an GenAI course for graduate students - I was/am so distressed. The work behind LLMs is hidden but this has real world consequences for our own ethical conduct. Culled from my course outlines here is what I said ... 13112
Reposted by Robin T.Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 11hThere are no responsible uses of AI in evaluating research funding applications. Just calling it ‘responsible’ doesn’t make it so. #EthicsWashing #GenAI 07017
Reposted by Robin T.Rasmus Birk @rasmusbirk.bsky.social · 21hIt is ASTOUNDING that this apparently needs saying. 0114
Reposted by Robin T.Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And do not ever fucking dare to put other people’s writing into an LLM without consen : no matter why you’ve been asked to read it, for feedback or reviews. Have some decency. 49723
Robin T. @drrobinthomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Interesting. I didn't see the original post myself beforehand blekhman.substack.com/p/the-ai-dis...blekhman.substack.comThe AI Discourse in Academia is Toxic. It Doesn’t have to be.You are allowed to have a nuanced opinion about AI 001
Reposted by Robin T.Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026reminder, if you present, in psychology say, findings that "wow a neural network simulated this task" it's not actually surprising (they are function approximators) nor is the surprise compatible with believing neural networks can learn any mapping (they cannot) — confused? see below 34710
Reposted by Robin T.Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Evil. Shame on everyone who voted for this.👇 54750257
Reposted by Robin T.Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s happening again. LLMs reporting someone’s in progress research as if it’s own discovery. 1234796
Reposted by Robin T.Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself. 1227064
Reposted by Robin T.Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 26/09/2026There is no ethical use of AI. 210445
Reposted by Robin T.Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...harvardmagazine.comI Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard MagazineA former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs. 46029
Reposted by Robin T.Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.docs.google.comOPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLSOPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “... 39565
Reposted by Robin T.Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892813049
Reposted by Robin T.Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Every time I see someone take a "well it's here" stance on "AI," I want to cry. not b/c it "isn't here" but b/c it being here never implies the next thing they say. Slavery was ("was") here and a good question was never "how to best use it." 14616
Reposted by Robin T.Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now. 8784296
Reposted by Robin T.Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/09/2026Y'all are really phoning it in with this one. Take this graph. It's useless because you didn't bother to describe the denominator. (These are protein amounts per 100g.) 1413820
Reposted by Robin T.Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Hard limits are in view and true believers, with no vision for the future beyond whatever they think ‘AI’ or ‘AGI’ are (usually whatever they’re told by the corporates), dimly aware of these limits but unable to accept what it means, are lashing out." -- @cloudquistador.eurosky.social 38431
Reposted by Robin T.Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19/09/2026All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage. Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”. 514756
Reposted by Robin T.Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Everyone stop, this is important 9354771700
Reposted by Robin T.ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026It's sad to see this framing repeated endlessly. Most critics of AI don't deny the 'lived experience' (sigh) of AI users & especially boosters; they denounce the fanaticism, the disregard for hazards, and the perceived lack of a moral compass. This looks to me like guilty feeling rationalization. 8464
Reposted by Robin T.Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Here is the newsletter post I reference in that clip: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...buttondown.comSix Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI”How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will... 0219
Reposted by Robin T.Anson Mackay (they/them) @ans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Great post by @jbyoder.org, highlighting that recent AI-related additions to distilling that paper you want to read are really no better than how we already structure papers in terms of abstract, intro, methods, results etc. for ease of understanding and distiling key points 052
Reposted by Robin T.Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026LLM chatbots on published papers without explicit opt-in from authors is so incredibly disrespectful and completely undermines the idea of a published version of record 18817
Reposted by Robin T.Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...noyb.euAI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companiesIn a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans. 18464294
Reposted by Robin T.Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 17/07/2026“Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2… > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but our concerns are spurned or ignored.eamoncaddigan.netPotentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war 26928
Reposted by Robin T.c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."artsci.tamu.eduFrom Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on MathematicsEmmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c... 161302512
Reposted by Robin T.Nicolas Audebert @nshaud.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm burnt out of discussing "AI". I don't care for the press releases from big companies. I hate having to comment immediately. I dislike "hot takes". I'm worried we, as scientists, are losing touch with scientific values. We've become customers, salivating at ads marketed to investors. 1/15 49135
Reposted by Robin T.Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered 231782315
Reposted by Robin T.Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026AI companies sold C suites and lazy assholes on the idea that they invented magic beans but now that the magic isn't happening they're telling everyone they're actually deadly beans and only they have the antidote for the deadly beans. 8417107
Reposted by Robin T.Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026these people axed their writing center 616254
Robin T. @drrobinthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Department of Psychology at Miami University (Ohio) invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in Cognitive Neuroscience to begin Fall 2027. miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/miamioh-facu...miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor - Cognitive NeuroscienceJob Title Assistant Professor - Cognitive Neuroscience Department Psychology Department Worker Type Regular Pay Type Salary Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and e... 010
Reposted by Robin T.Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026The lawsuit challenges the NIH's current policy of using keywords to flag grant applications associated with climate change, DEI, gender, misinformation research, and vaccine hesitancy, keywords that have been used to terminate my own funding as well. Below: just a few of the banned words. 436052
Reposted by Robin T.Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... 1221089
Reposted by Robin T.Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@aaup.org @biblioracle.bsky.social & Katie Rainwater nails what everyone misses. Heritage Foundation hates college full stop. They bash DEI to get in the door, but the point is to close the door on everyone. That's why they want to own accreditation. Say no today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...academicfreedomontheline.substack.comWith Proposed Federal Rules, Heritage Foundation Upends Higher EducationWho is up for a little Christian Nationalism embedded into our higher education system? 02518
Reposted by Robin T.Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/09/2026“You need to integrate AI because while it will degrade your abilities and make your job less interesting and more shitty, at least you will retain employment” is not the sell AI proponents think it is. 81026207
Reposted by Robin T.Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...irisvanrooijcogsci.comComputational complexity for hype immunityUsing some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity… 917467
Reposted by Robin T.Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 302666905
Reposted by Robin T.megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am not a mathematician, so I am not sure if I can formally sign this, but I wholeheartedly concur and would argue that the same is true for all of science. Yes, we want scientific discovery. But -- like flipping to the back of the textbook to look at the answer key -- 1295
Reposted by Robin T.Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...youtu.beJimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To SeeYouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live 4541892911133
Reposted by Robin T.Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026The 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... 14772329
Reposted by Robin T.The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026With all the ugly news, even the cats are hanging out in bars. Note the side of goldfish. 631633
Reposted by Robin T.Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵olivia.scienceCryptogynyOn the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions. 3389167
Reposted by Robin T.Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/09/2026Once you realise computer misuse has been illegal for decades, you realise why companies crave their AI systems to be seen as something else. 316453
Reposted by Robin T.Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every course having a mandatory "AI Trailblazer" shows us all how absolutely desperate this is getting. Thou shalt use generative ai we paid for it the beatings will stop when ai is used, etc. 2242
Reposted by Robin T.Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hey, is Mitch McConnell’s speech tonight at that midterm convention gonna be in person or via video? 5085692929
![But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.
"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life," she said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiddnplprzxi3p3zrc6mnxynk2m5s6dsck27kgcc66uazcusz34hja)
