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Dean Cooper-Cunningham

@whereisdean.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. I research the visual, the body, sex(uality), gender, and their place in international politics. Recent work focuses mostly on queering peace & security. I run a lot. Scottish. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇰

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

shoot this straight into my veins

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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Had the pleasure of thinking with and being probed by these wonderful minds as part of the #EWIS2025 opening sessions. Maybe there is some hope in these transitional, liminal times…

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In case you ever feel like a waste of space whose job is bullshit… Jokes aside, how does shit always seem to float (into power)?

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Asked DALL-E to give me Moo Deng but Christmassy… didn’t expect a recipe 🦛🆘

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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Are you doing simulations in IR? Consider using ChatGPT to help you design and run gameified learning exercises. It reduces time & resources, works as a sparring partner, and can be fully randomised. I wrote about this for the pedagogical course I took at Copenhagen Uni: curis.ku.dk/ws/portalfil...

curis.ku.dk

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Listening to BBC Radio 4 this morning and in light of the revelations from the UK Covid inquiry about senior civil servants’ communications during the pandemic, it’s very clear that many of the UK’s political leadership are incompetent donkeys who can’t formulate independent arguments 🫏

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Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Hard copies of my article with @whereisdean.bsky.social just arrived! It's on Queering the Responsibility to Protect and the need to integrate queer perspectives and persecution into research policy and practice on R2P. Article Open Access here! academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

Hand holding a hard copy of the journal International Affairs.

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Come join us in NYC on 23 Oct for the launch of our paper 'Queer Peace and Security: Recommendations to the United Nations Independent Expert on SOGI' 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇳 Register: eventbrite.com/e/queer-peace-… Paper: static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/369…

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Dean Cooper-Cunningham @whereisdean.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Reviewing the final proofs for the outcome document of a truly collaborative venture. This one is something I’m really proud of and super excited to deliver 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 more soon…

A front cover for a booklet titled Queer Peace and Security: Recommendations to the United Nations, independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity. The cover is gradient coloured white to pink from left to right and the text is bold and black with the title.

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