iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I haven’t found this to be disciplinary. IMO it’s nice to have 1-2 questions for each paper and then free for all questions at the end, if there’s time. It sucks to be the paper that gets no questions or the rarely honest or workable-in-practice “this question is for everyone”

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Anthony 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

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Anthony 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

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Alex 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

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“the Doomer narrative is the Booster narrative”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

AI 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. >>

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

The 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 worse

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Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Cattle 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?

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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...

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One 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.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even 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

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

I 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.

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Timnit 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....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

First, let's ground this in why the pro-science position is anti-chatbot (and anti-AI hype): >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a case study in pro-AI propaganda, and annoying enough to inspire a Saturday thread: bsky.app/profile/bren... 🧵>>

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Believing that other people are real is antifascist praxis.

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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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blair @blairaf.com · 02/09/2026

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 doing social science with synthetic research participants is unscientific

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AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I 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.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/06/2026

Destroying history is a feature not a bug

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Very 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."

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I know this is hard to hear. But thinking is chronic and incurable :(

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

knowing what you would/could do with the information you might get > > > firehose of information just because you can, with zero guidance to help interpret and act! It's almost like being meaningfully informed ... is not the same as unfettered access to/flooding with information

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

There isn’t a nonconfabulated output. Statistical confabulation is how I would rebrand (anti-brand) every chatbot response

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I do think confabulation is a better name than hallucination, as hallucination implies interiority and consciousness in a way that confabulation doesn’t. Confabulation is associated with (if agnostic about) lying, which is more accurate if we (correctly) include AI-makers and -mongers in the loop!

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Seriously this is so good, and one of a few recent academic pieces that actually offers me hope

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Anthropic 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)

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When AI builds itself
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Or we could have libraries and librarians

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’m finally doing this now. Not totally analog, but I’m using my Wordpress, email, and a Teams channel for most non-analog class needs. So far so good (only been 1 week)

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“The Fastest Weirdo of Them All” can be track 2 on the record

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Great North is delightful if you haven’t already gobbled it up.

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Anti-human industry disdains knowledge made by and for humans

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Hey, 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.org

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The Luddite Club

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

On the topic of how different communities can see what is happening in a video radically differently, Charles Goodwin’s Professional Vision (1994) is not to be missed: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/...

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Hmm. Time for socialized computing, eh?

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I 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

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/10/2025

Enjoyed 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 🧵

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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Tech 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/48FNcJj

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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Void 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?”

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Wow. 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.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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g @g--0.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

we need to talk more about which specific people are on which boards and also which other boards those specific people are on.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This 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.

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Sarah Klein @saklein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Pretty sure my overuse of the backspace key would be flagged as suspicious

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