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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Will share more about the wonderful festival organized by @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social 🩷 but for now, just sharing my drawing from the amazing workshop by @marentierra.bsky.social and @joostvossers.bsky.social to create situated and social depictions of AI to decolonize public representations ✨️✨️🙏

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

Thanks so much to my wonderful colleagues Marieke & @marentierra.bsky.social for setting up at @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social's amazing festival: reject AI instead reclaim the future! 🫚 💞 💥 Posters are here: zenodo.org/records/1736... & you can read more here: olivia.science/ai about our work.

a photo of this poster: https://zenodo.org/records/17111928

photo of some cool orange lighting, a fluorescent green frame with this poster in it: https://zenodo.org/records/17367323

a very blue frame with a poster from here in it: https://zenodo.org/records/17367323 which says Have you considered not using AI?

a room with a black table and a blue frame with a poster that says AI is evil: https://zenodo.org/records/17367323

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Much enjoying @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social 's Reclaiming Our Futures festival together w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @ethicsofai.bsky.social @markdingemanse.net @joostvossers.bsky.social and many more not on Bluesky reclaimingourfutures.org

The future is rhizomatic

(picture is a ginger root)

Reclaiming our futures

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My representation of some of the discourse about @irisvanrooij.bsky.social her work 🤣🤣🤣

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The same paper by @olivia.science, @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2026): zenodo.org/records/2008... also explains how "Knowledge production is ... safeguarded by (inter)national codes of conduct for research integrity (ALLEA 2023; KNAW et al. 2018)." 🧵

Honesty implies that we do not secretly use AI technologies without disclosure, and that one does
not make unfounded claims about the presumed capabilities of AI technologies (this also follows
from Responsibility; see example from MIT Economics 2025, where perhaps too little too late was
done).
Scrupulousness demands, among other things, that scientists only use AI products whose functional-
ity is well-specified and validated for its specific scientific usage (cf. Kwisthout 2024; Kwisthout and
Renooij 2025). This includes terminological precision about what formalisms, models, and/or tech-
nologies are used (recall Figure 1) and rigorous argumentation to motivate why these technologies
are appropriate for the scientific purposes at hand.
Transparency requires that the AI technologies are open source and computationally reproducible.
Here we must recall the technology industry’s obfuscatory tactics: “the name of the current
producer of ChatGPT. ‘OpenAI’ sounds like it is engaged in open science, but as we have now
seen, ‘open’ never really means what you think it does.” (Mirowski 2023, p. 738; see also Dingemanse
2025; Hao 2025; Jackson 2024; Liesenfeld and Dingemanse 2024; Liesenfeld, Lopez, et al. 2023;
Maffulli 2023; Maris 2025; Nolan 2025; Solaiman 2023; Thorne 2009; Widder et al. 2024)
Independence means that scientists ensure that their research is unbiased by AI companies’ agendas,
and that any potential conflicts of interest are declared in publications and other public communi-
cations (this also follows from Honesty and Transparency; cf. Mohamed Abdalla and Moustafa
Abdalla 2021; Atkin 2025; Forbes and Guest 2025; Knoester et al. 2025).
Responsibility precludes scientists from using AI products whose use is irresponsible, e.g. harmful to
people, animals, and the environment, or otherwise in violation of legal guidelines (e.g. copyright,
data privacy, labour laws, Butterick 2025; Cole 2025; Rijo 2025; Tafani 2024a). Minimizing harm is ...

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Timothy Babulski, PhD @tokenintellect.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've read plenty of great academic articles over the years. Many that have challenged my thinking. A few that had me nodding along. This is the first I've ever wanted to cosign.

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Wiep Hamstra @wiep.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This man needs to learn how to read. Basic skill. It doesn’t take weeks to read some articles. Besides, the summaries are already there.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Postscript: This thread is brought to you by someone who just learnt that a full professor of AI declares in a Dutch newspaper that it is A-Okay to not read 30 papers, but instead fine to ask CLAUDE for a "summary". 🧵 archive.is/VYIKn

Figure. (left) a desk with stack of books, papers, and a computer. Above it the words "2 hours". (right) icon depicting text produced by Claude. Above it the words "5 minutes".

Caption: Two hours searching, or five mintes reading a summary?

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The conclusion is NOT "we need to debias LLMs" Besides that it's impossible, it also detracts from the point, which is: We shouldn't use machines to offload of the very cognition that is constitutive of the work to be done & supercharge existing inequities and injustices in the process. 🧵

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Here is another example of *automated cryptogyny*: LLM removed my co-authors, *three of whom were women*. Instead, LLM states I published the paper with a *man* with whom I co-authored *other* papers. 🧵

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Using LLMs in science for “literature review” or “summarizing" is *automated cryptogyny* olivia.science/cryptogyny/ @olivia.science 🧵

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Cryptogyny

On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/08/2026

"my hands are tied" feels like a "this is what I say when I am caught just doing whatever the racist wanker wants because I am a loser too"

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/08/2026

Journalists need to stop letting "our commitment hasn't changed" slide without context. Emissions continue growing, companies are getting worse at reporting and are increasingly building with (dirty, inefficient) behind-the-meter simple-cycle gas. The Target is a decoy irrelevant to decision-making.

“The world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge,” said Margaret Callahan, an Amazon spokeswoman. Still, “our commitment hasn’t changed,” she said.

4-tile figure for Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft. Each pane shows MtCO2e versus year, with curves for Unadjusted, Adjusted, and Target. On each plot, the Target goes down while Unadjusted grows rapidly and Adjusted is in-between (mostly growing). Amazon is missing recent data.

Figure from: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/08/2026

And it also solidifies patriarchy and white supremacy within academic spaces going without critique or as @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social say being white washed using critical language but 0 actions. It's a great strategy within such leftist (in name) spaces.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Seeing group of men (philosophers, engineers, cognitive scientists) finding each other in their shared hate of women experts who work and think outside the(ir) mainstream. Patting each other on the back for mysogynist dunks & mischaracterisations, while thinking they are smart and doing noble work.

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Esin migrated to Eurosky @fellowesin.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

UPDATES ON THE COLORS: - Laborwashing (red) - Openwashing (orange) (Thanks @ethicsofai.bsky.social!!) - Memewashing (yellow) - Greenwashing - Accessibilitywashing (cyan) (Thanks again Soerjadi!) - Ethicswashing / Philosophywashing (blue) (Philosophywashing fellowesin.neocities.org/turing/criti...

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The Critical Washing Rainbow - /turing - Esin's Neocities

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/08/2026

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

We call upon you to:

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful.

• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.

• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety.

• Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces.

• Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/07/2026

Yup. I think this fits their trajectory, indeed. Part of a wider attempt at claiming that we should just find ways to use these "tools" through some pragmatic acceptance. See: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

For more thoughts on the role of 'critical thinking' see our CAILs framework, by @olivia.science, @marentierra.bsky.social and me. 📝 Full paper: zenodo.org/records/1778...

Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Conceptual 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.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/07/2026

Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things. It's ok not to both side things. It's ok to ask colleagues who are experts.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/05/2026

On the other hand, I want to highlight my work that is about cognition, models, theory (see: olivia.science/theory/) & understanding how we think about them. Sometimes a good starting point is to zoom out: What Makes a Good Theory, and How Do We Make a Theory Good? doi.org/10.1007/s421... 4/

olivia.science

Theory

What is a cognitive scientific theory?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/05/2026

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism.

olivia.science

Critical AI

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We cannot scale up AI to human-level cognition, but we sure can scale up inhumane practices and harm

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You may also enjoy this paper and/or talk bsky.app/profile/iris... (scroll down for full thread)

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like computers. Computers are dull and boring; humans are clever and imaginative.” — Jeannette M. Wing (2006) h/t @olivia.science dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

dl.acm.org

Computational thinking | Communications of the ACM

It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So in other words, coming up with strategies, algorithms, programs etc. is the creative part (as we did in class w/ coming up with sorting strategies). Executing a program once specified is what a machine can do. But the, analysis, creativity and specification is our achievement, not the machine's.

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Jose M. Casas 'two-' 🇦🇷 🏴‍☠️ @josemariacasas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

El contrato estrella de la implementacion de AI utilizado por la @urv.cat es el que mantienen con MicroSlop, justificando cualquier problema de uso en que dicho contrato le garantiza que Copilot cumple normativa europea. Pero y las demas variables? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...

nytimes.com

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.

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Jose M. Casas 'two-' 🇦🇷 🏴‍☠️ @josemariacasas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

La adopcion a-critica de AI realizada por la @urv.cat la expone al incumplimiento absoluto de sus objetivos de sostenibilidad ambiental y la aleja de cumplir al menos 6 de los objetivos de la Agenda de Desarrollo Sostenible con los que se habia comprometido.

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Marcela Suarez @marentierra.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Last week was both intense in teaching and full of hope. Participants of the Summer School: “Critical AI literacy for resisting and reclaiming” presented their group projects to resist and reclaim AI.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Not a small part Olivia!! 🥰 Honestly, we wouldn't have critical AI literacy at Radboud if it were not for you 🔥 Sorry you could not physically join ❤️‍🩹 We all learnt a lot from your keynote and all your CAIL materials 🙏 Your CAILs pentagram was a red thread through the week ✨

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/06/2026

this looks so cool, wow

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

☀️ 📚 In the evening of Day 3, we had a screening of the documentary film "Ghost in the Machine" 🎬 This event was co-organized with students from the School of AI. The audience was students from our BSc course Sustainable AI & MSc course Bias in AI, in addition to Summer School participants. 5/🧵

youtube.com

GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER

YouTube video by Ghost in the Machine

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I hate them so much. Wednesday I watched this at the Critical AI summer school organised by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social. I was "not a fan" of Altman but after seeing the movie... he really has a punchable face. bsky.app/profile/iris...

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I have had the privilege and honor to attend the Critical AI Literacy Workshop offered at the Radboud Summer School. The workshop was organized by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social @olivia.science along with @joostvossers.bsky.social and @altibel.bsky.social.

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I will have more thoughts to share but I am still processing the information. The #Radboud University is extremely lucky to have scholars who are leading this work and who are helping many scientists to achieve conceptual clarity about AI. Please read the OP by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

☀️ 📚 Day 2 of the Summer School, @marentierra.bsky.social lectured about critical intersectional perspectives on AI and I lectured about AI and cognitive science. Each of us bringing distinct but complementary frames for resistance. 3/🧵

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

☀️ 📚 Day 3 of the Summer School, after @marentierra.bsky.social’s eye opening lecture about unsustainability of AI and the global supply chain, @altibel.bsky.social gave an inspiring and heartwarming lecture on reclaiming our skills and the importance of reading and writing by ourselves. 4/🧵

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

☀️ 📚 Day 4, after restorative time, free-form discussions & reflections on the movie, we joined a session from @marentierra.bsky.social’s Sustainable AI course, where students presented vlogs 🎬 that they had created for their final projects. So impressed & proud by what our AI students made! 6/🧵

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

bsky.app/profile/iris...

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 24/05/2026

One of the oldest computer science courses in Brazil is at University of São Paulo (I did my PhD there). This is the first group of students that graduated there, in 1974

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Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Because America doesn’t belong to you.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/05/2026

> It’s common for US people (who vaingloriously claim the title of ‘American’ as if the rest of the hemisphere doesn’t exist or arrived from the 12th dimension) to fret about things worth fretting about while failing to see political economy. 💯

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Marcela Suarez @marentierra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Our position paper is out! Read it now in the following link:

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/12/2025

OK, bonus, some art: an Olmec head destroying a Tesla by @chavismarmol.bsky.social — chavismarmol.com you have GOT to visit that website; it is amazing! 🤩 Read more: hyperallergic.com/878913/artis... 3/3

Last Monday, March 11, artist Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton Olmec head made of quarry stone onto a blue Tesla Model 3. (all photos by and courtesy the artist)

more: https://hyperallergic.com/878913/artist-chavis-marmol-crushes-tesla-with-colossal-olmec-head-sculpture/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/12/2025

Some examples of decolonial automata/computations, apropos of giving a mini talk on this tomorrow: Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🐯 Tipu's tiger is amazing; sadly stolen & now in the V&A, created in India & depicting a tiger mauling an English man. 1/n

On the flip side, we can include positive examples in our teaching on the history of AI: Tipu’s
tiger from late 18th century India, featuring the eponymous robotic cat mauling a European man
(Karp et al. 2013); the Antikythera Mechanism from ancient Greece, which was a clockwork astro-
logical calender; and the Mayans’ calendrical system that was highly precise and directly translat-
able to a system of gears. We can also explain the origin of ‘algorithm’ and ‘algebra’, conceptually
developed during the Islamic Golden Age. These serve not only to properly contextualise the his-
tory of AI (Mayor 2018), but to reimagine with students what could be done differently.
Regardless of AI, science has always been intertwined with domination, extraction, binary
thinking, and the imposition of hierarchies (Tacheva et al. 2023). For example, the Cartesian dualist
idea that the mind can be separated from the body is at the core of AI hype. Corporate discourses
around AI feature preposterous claims, such that ‘ChatGPT has PhD level cognition capacities’,
and they will be able to surpass human intelligence in the near future (Welt 2025), implying that
technologies are human-like. However, far from LLMs having cognitive capacities, companies ob-
fuscate the labour that is extracted from data workers (Miceli et al. 2020). In the classroom, we
should question the mind and body binary and render visible its eugenical and colonial legacies.
While we refute corporate claims, we also take them seriously as dehumanising workers, women,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu%27s_Tiger Tipu's Tiger, Tippu's Tiger or Tipoo’s Tiger is an 18th-century automaton created for Tipu Sultan, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (present day Karnataka) in India. The carved and painted wood casing represents a tiger mauling a near life-size European man. Mechanisms inside the tiger and the man's body make one hand of the man move, emit a wailing sound from his mouth and grunts from the tiger. In addition a flap on the side of the tiger folds down to reveal the keyboard of a small pipe organ with 18 notes.[1]

zoomed in to the tiger biting the man's neck

Tipu's Tiger with the organ keyboard visible

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