Reposted by EdTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I feel that one way of expressing the combined effect of growing up, becoming socialized, getting an education, and having a personality is: not needing “all-day help… spoken into your ear privately” by Google 1422470
Reposted by EdDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/09/2025AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...project-syndicate.orgThe False Promise of “AI for Social Good”Abeba Birhane refutes industry claims about the technology's potential to solve complex social problems. 11327151
Reposted by EdKen Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/07/2025"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real. 13776143167
Reposted by EdDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/ 25598217
Reposted by EdDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 01/07/2025"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..." 4485712570
Reposted by EdOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers? 18577681369
Reposted by EdKeith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised. 204109334360
Reposted by EdMiles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 28/06/2025me as a pentiment style jester guy. trans jester says trans rights or I’ll stomp on your feet in an irritating and silly manner 1582137
Reposted by EdZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 24/06/2025If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong. This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today 601493588
Reposted by EdMolly White @molly.wiki · 22/06/2025going to walk up to someone, punch them in the face, and then go "now is the time for peace!" and see how it works out 281434219
Reposted by EdParis Marx @parismarx.com · 22/06/2025i hate that we all have to live on the same planet as the united states 51898537
Reposted by Edderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵 11083312230
Reposted by EdOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/05/2025I've felt for a while that a mainstream method, reverse engineering, in cognitive science & AI is incompatible w computationalism‼️ So I wrote "Modern Alchemy: Neurocognitive Reverse Engineering" w the wonderful Natalia S. & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social to elaborate: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25289/ 1/n 1616049
Reposted by EdEROCY @erocy.world · 07/05/2025Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger- 1843011417
Reposted by EdCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins. 1832866937
Reposted by EdNot An Anagram @vertigoem.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The electorate: we want a political party that doesn't actively make our lives worse Starmer: This result shows we must machine-gun the dinghies 12658229
Reposted by EdThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...irishexaminer.comSéamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panicThe poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade... 462442805
Reposted by Edkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 18/03/2025andre gorz on cars in the 70s is the rightest anyone has ever been about anything 930582
Reposted by EdSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/01/2025"The spectre of AI does nothing for growth if it gives away what we own so that we can rent from it what it makes." - that's some extremely skilled political rhetoric, really great speech writing (Prior to the Lords she had a long career as a film director in the UK, which I think shows) 34212
Reposted by EdKate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · 29/01/2025DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵 66726
Ed @stellarmatrix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I’ve not used amazon since 2018. It’s easy to do, at least in the UK 000
Reposted by EdIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/08/2024🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy 22491167
Reposted by EdNiléane @mastodon.nileane.fr · 24/12/2024This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten 9561582568
Reposted by Edali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 06/12/2024hi, i wrote a post - "Defining AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...ali-alkhatib.com Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI 52430102
