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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 9h

"Of the 203 primary reviews, 45 (22 per cent) failed accuracy standards, and 19 were flagged as needing further review. Of the 56 secondary reviews, 30 (54 per cent) were deemed to be sub-standard, information obtained by the Open Rights Group found"

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On Thursday, 10/8, from 5 PM to 7 PM, we'll be hosting organizers from the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), NC Warn, Clean Water for North Carolina, and Community Land and Power to discuss the environmental harms of data centers. Learn more here: www.aaupnc.org/projects/gen...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really not sure what the point of this is. I do my very best to avoid consuming synthetic media, even though I can't always avoid it. Does not being able to avoid it somehow devalue my critique of "AI"? >>

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us Friday, 10/2, for a critical AI teach-in with the wonderful Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social! She'll be helping us think about the importance of reclaiming our reading and writing skills from generative "AI." Learn more and access Zoom link here: www.aaupnc.org/projects/gen...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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So exhausted to read this on the day before I have to have a department-level conversation about why we all need to adopt generative AI... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h... Why are universities aligning themselves with products that are being used to undermine the role of experts in our society?

A screen shot of text from an article about a MAHA summit, featuring RFK's remarks about AI and experts: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/health/maha-summit-kennedy-vance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFE.VU26.T_6I0lxMmVb-&smid=url-share

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This week's newsletter: "Boosters and critics aren’t playing the same game. When I cite the profound violence and cruelty enacted by commercial AI companies, I’m not talking about something that could be outweighed by a language model that can do some cool stuff." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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On “Breakthroughs”

Moving the goalposts, racing for arms, etc.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Joseph Shea @josephshea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The "inevitability" of AI argument is such a copout. Its only inevitable if we stand back and let it become entrenched (or worse: encourage it) in our classrooms. Looking at you, UNBC.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This Wednesday - "Teaching Critical AI Literacies," a workshop with Lauren M.E. Goodlad, editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical AI. Wednesday, 9/23, 4:30 pm John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke More information: buff.ly/0el2U3a

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please join us for a teaching critical AI literacies workshop with Dr. Lauren M.E. Goodlad on September 23rd at 4:30 PM at the Franklin Humanities Institute! @ncaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org fhi.duke.edu/event/lauren... If you can't make it in person, the event will also be streamed via Zoom!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you need to "check everything" that an LLM spits out in peer review, aren't you just making MORE work for yourself? What is even happening, and why is adding more steps and labor somehow considered the "better" way to do peer review???

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I LOVE this! I’ve been having conversations in recent weeks about how we need to stop throwing AI over the fence into other people’s areas of expertise in a needless quest for a use case

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Ron Belmont @ronbelmont.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well damn. If I'd known he was going to delete that so quickly, I would have taken a screenshot for posterity.

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Matthew Kenerly @mattk-fs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today, in Stop Fucking Using "AI":

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Nicolas Audebert @nshaud.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'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

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are some great resources here: sites.rutgers.edu/critical-ai/ We also have some additional resources compiled here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At my workshop for the wonderful Public AI Summit today, I asked participants why they teach writing. If we know why we're doing something, we can then ask "to what (writing) problem is AI the solution?" There is no AI replacement for thoughtful teachers.

A white board of sticky notes that answer the question "what are you trying to do when you teach/assign writing"?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here's what I like about this: Instead of answering the question, what should we do about AI, these outcomes answer the question, what do we want our students to be able to do? Yes, implementation has new challenges now because of AI. And in some fields, what we want our students to be able to do/1

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are humans directing the things other humans report "AI" is doing

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs

Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Noting the gap between the infected and the well, the Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion to help the uninfected join this exciting development in which Microsoft is so precariously invested."

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also, just a note that this workshop is on Wednesday, 9/23!

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're excited about this workshop next week! Hope to see you there! @aaup.org @ncaaup.bsky.social

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

Right: A 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. Critical reflection cannot be reduced to a mere ‘check box’ before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life after all (as has been done in other areas such as vaping and combustion engines). 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

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16/09/2026

this is just to control them, deskill them, impoverish them more

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Must watch, yinz!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have consistently heard from students it that they use non university AI because they assume they are under surveillance in university systems. Would be curious to know the numbers on how many are using what universities provide. (But also: that $$ would pay for...a lot of writing centers!)

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The UK is voting on the Assisted Dying bill today. Most disability organizations oppose it. Safeguards have already been removed or rejected. Please listen to disabled Canadians. What was meant to be dignified quickly became coercive eugenics aimed at the most vulnerable.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two points among many here: 1. Asking students to write without AI is not "trying to make AI go away" 2. If we accept that we can "AI proof" things in STEM but that writing is different, we'll end up giving up on writing--and all the learning that goes with it. www.chronicle.com/article/harv...

In reality, no one is “trying to make AI simply go away,” if for no other reason than that no such thing is remotely possible. Students do not lack opportunities, incentives, and guidance in how to use AI. However many papers students are asked to write without AI, they will still have every opportunity to fire up the chat and explore its ability to alleviate the burdens of every cognitive activity imaginable. Here is what our students no longer have opportunities to do: read long, difficult texts; think; write on one topic for more than 50 minutes at a time.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026

FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is the thing: the work of doing work that could be done by AI is often the "important work" that AI promises to save you the time to do. We know what this work is, as @profmarylewis.bsky.social notes below. But our students won't necessarily, unless they actually get to do it themselves.

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