Reposted by Sarah KleinAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money 5509168
Reposted by Sarah KleinAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank 837599
Reposted by Sarah KleinAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social 213743
Reposted by Sarah KleinEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger. >> 527281
Reposted by Sarah KleinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026The absolute best case scenario is that the people in this article and everyone uncritically enabling them are remembered as briefly demented rubes in an era of elder millennial mass delusion brought on by the Conversation Simulator. The worst case scenario is that all this gets much worsetheguardian.comCan chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rightsCattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm? 2017728
Reposted by Sarah KleinKatie 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. 302667907
Reposted by Sarah KleinIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Even stronger: there is at present no reason to believe "AI" can even functionally approach anything close to human-level cognition before the sun dies out. Can it fool us? Yes! But it isn't anything other than a bunch of scams in a trechcoat 924867
Reposted by Sarah KleinOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 09/09/2026I keep hearing the argument that the 3 big pro AI academics who are usually doomers are right BECAUSE they're experts. What's important about experts is we declare our *perceived* conflicts of interest. How many AI company shares do they own? Because employees are often paid in shares in any case. 212034
Reposted by Sarah KleinTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U.... 762207767
Reposted by Sarah KleinDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Aw hell yeah. 1292
Reposted by Sarah KleinEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026First, let's ground this in why the pro-science position is anti-chatbot (and anti-AI hype): >> 19811
Reposted by Sarah KleinEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is a case study in pro-AI propaganda, and annoying enough to inspire a Saturday thread: bsky.app/profile/bren... 🧵>> 9239107
Reposted by Sarah KleinJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Believing that other people are real is antifascist praxis. 5661167
Reposted by Sarah KleinIris 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. 3388167
Reposted by Sarah Kleinblair @blairaf.com · 02/09/2026Doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific 615332
Reposted by Sarah KleinAAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I agree that many faculty at my university seem reluctant to openly call bullshit in relation to "AI" because they feel they don't have the expertise to speak up. One of the goals of our project is to address this. We want to help faculty gain the confidence and expertise to voice their concerns. 0276
Reposted by Sarah KleinOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/06/2026Destroying history is a feature not a bug 415257
Reposted by Sarah KleinTeresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Very basic...stop using error-ridden disinformation machines. Academics, researchers, journalists, students, universities, governments, politicians etc that use them should be called out. "As you can see from this story, all it does is take a sledgehammer to the foundations of shared reality." 03418
Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Seriously this is so good, and one of a few recent academic pieces that actually offers me hope 11910
Reposted by Sarah KleinElaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Anthropic Institute, the research arm of Anthropic, published a report speculating on what it sees as potential future trends in AI development, and media literacy took an absolute beating from it. A thread: (1/22) 312155
Reposted by Sarah KleinKatie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Hey, y'all! This is my photo, so let me provide context to this awesome piece: it's a reprinting of the Oberlin letter in a mag called The Luddite Dispatch, a publication of The Luddite Club in Brooklyn. www.theludditeclub.orgtheludditeclub.orgThe Luddite Club 37229
Reposted by Sarah KleinLori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚 562686776
Reposted by Sarah KleinDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy 201265231
Reposted by Sarah KleinOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/10/2025Enjoyed writing this short but sweet [altho not necessarily in message] piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social w @irisvanrooij.bsky.social: > While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype & stolen intellectual labor 🧵 15929
Reposted by Sarah KleinProject Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social . bit.ly/48FNcJjbit.lyAI Is Hollowing Out Higher EducationOlivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy. 010243
Reposted by Sarah KleinVoid in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025“How can we expect our students & mentees to navigate AI slop if we do not take a clear stand against it as teachers, researchers, and academic institutions? How can we prevent the destruction of knowledge, violations of scientific integrity, scientific deskilling & displacement by AI technologies?” 13113
Reposted by Sarah KleinDana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist. 4539531779
Reposted by Sarah Kleing @g--0.bsky.social · 13/08/2025we need to talk more about which specific people are on which boards and also which other boards those specific people are on. 37214
Reposted by Sarah KleinLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025This ongoing observation of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, started in 1950 and continuous ever since, is one of the best things the US government has ever done. Trump, Elon, and DOGE are shutting it down. 23319
Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I know I have almost zero followers so I’m sure this will reach almost no one but friends frenemies, countrymen and humans of fabricated enemy states, it might be time to start moving our actual conversations off the platforms. Even this one. 120
Reposted by Sarah KleinDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.buff.lyThe story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked imageLast June, a striking image of a pride flag made up of NASA imagery became the most-liked post on the new social media network Bluesky, a post it held for 2 months. I spoke with its creator Rachel … 6840248
Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Publication klaxon! Please head over to Analog Game Studies to check out our article in the latest issue: "It's All Fun and Games 'Till Someone Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed." @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social and I learned a lot about one anothers' fields (and minds!) writing this together.analoggamestudies.orgIt’s All Fun and Games ‘Till Somebody Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed | Analog Game Studies 100
Reposted by Sarah KleinGerald Voorhees @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Really proud of this essay with @saklein.bsky.social theorizing bleed as not only an effect but also tactic of play and identifying some culturally situated practices around/for/against bleed play in ttrpgs analoggamestudies.org/2024/12/its-...analoggamestudies.orgIt’s All Fun and Games ‘Till Somebody Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed | Analog Game Studies 174
Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 09/02/2024It's a beautiful day in the 'neural neighborhood'. Getting ready to teach about objectivities in scientific visualization and saw this just out. Is the scientific atlas being revived? Did it ever really disappear? alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...alleninstitute.orgScientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brainHigh-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types. 131
Reposted by Sarah KleinCLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Scientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brain High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types #neuroskyence alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...alleninstitute.orgScientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brainHigh-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types. 01611
Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 06/02/2024Tough one, but I believe I am a bog. Girlmoss over girlboss for sure 020