Cristina Zaga -Resisting and Reimagining AI
@lekkerresistance.bsky.social
🫶 Resisting and Re-imagining just futures for workers
🌎partisan fighting for AI and robots futures of justice, care&solidarity
Ass. Prof. @utwente&@designlabutwente - Radical Transdisciplinarity, Critical AI & Robotics, Designing for Joyful Resistance
🌎partisan fighting for AI and robots futures of justice, care&solidarity
Ass. Prof. @utwente&@designlabutwente - Radical Transdisciplinarity, Critical AI & Robotics, Designing for Joyful Resistance
My mantra: If young people organise themselves, if they take hold of every branch of knowledge and fight alongside workers and the oppressed, there will be no escape for an old order based on privilege and injustice. Instead here we contest the wish of more plurality in academia. 🤡
Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My mantra: If young people organise themselves, if they take hold of every branch of knowledge and fight alongside workers and the oppressed, there will be no escape for an old order based on privilege and injustice. Instead here we contest the wish of more plurality in academia. 🤡
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Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉
Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!
Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉
Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!
Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!
indeed “prompting is a poor user interface for generative AI systems, which should be phased out as quickly as possible.” Meredith Ringel Morris
Reminded today of this opinion piece by Meredith Ringel Morris, which I believe introduced the term "prompt hacking" (in the sense of p-hacking rather than jailbreaking) and the central concerns about replicability echoed in later papers.
"Prompting Considered Harmful"
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
"Prompting Considered Harmful"
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
indeed “prompting is a poor user interface for generative AI systems, which should be phased out as quickly as possible.” Meredith Ringel Morris
Should researchers refuse and join the resistance? as a computer vision researcher would you like to contribute to authoritarian practices? This is something I am going to research soon.
4. Editorial: Don’t sleepwalk from computer-vision research into surveillance www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Don’t sleepwalk from computer-vision research into surveillance
The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans. The potential ethical implications need more scrutiny.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Should researchers refuse and join the resistance? as a computer vision researcher would you like to contribute to authoritarian practices? This is something I am going to research soon.
the rise of surveillance in computer vision.
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
the rise of surveillance in computer vision.
Fauxautimation creates menial jobs that are poorly paid to maintain the illusion of a robot’s autonomy. Robot wrangling is much more common than we think, yet it’s a covert operation. We need to rethink automation and unveil the wizard of Oz.
So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Fauxautimation creates menial jobs that are poorly paid to maintain the illusion of a robot’s autonomy. Robot wrangling is much more common than we think, yet it’s a covert operation. We need to rethink automation and unveil the wizard of Oz.
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"If you access the public’s savings at scale, you should meet the public’s disclosure standards."
... seems like a good principle to minimize harmful bubbles
www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...
... seems like a good principle to minimize harmful bubbles
www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...
AI Isn’t a Superintelligence. It's a Market in Need of Disclosure. | TechPolicy.Press
If AI is going to be governed as a market technology, it must be brought into the market’s accountability machinery, write Dr. Ilan Strauss and Tim O'Reilly.
www.techpolicy.press
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"If you access the public’s savings at scale, you should meet the public’s disclosure standards."
... seems like a good principle to minimize harmful bubbles
www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...
... seems like a good principle to minimize harmful bubbles
www.techpolicy.press/ai-isnt-a-su...
I was in Dutch national television @rtl.nl to talk about robot hype and how we shall resist and develop technology in solidarity with workers. This was in response of a new Boston Dynamics robot for post delivery with the dutch provider @postnl.bsky.social which I invite to reach out to think along🙏
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I was in Dutch national television @rtl.nl to talk about robot hype and how we shall resist and develop technology in solidarity with workers. This was in response of a new Boston Dynamics robot for post delivery with the dutch provider @postnl.bsky.social which I invite to reach out to think along🙏
this is brilliant work by the folks @dairinstitute.bsky.social I would love to chat with colleagues working on similar research in the EU! I am working on a repository of resistance tactics against the “future of work” with AI 🙏
Check out this powerful report by brilliant colleagues Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna, and Sandra Barcenas, revealing how Amazon weaponizes technology to exploit its own workers.
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
this is brilliant work by the folks @dairinstitute.bsky.social I would love to chat with colleagues working on similar research in the EU! I am working on a repository of resistance tactics against the “future of work” with AI 🙏
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"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.
MBA-brain is real.
July 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"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.
MBA-brain is real.
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
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July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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Is this you Twitter? <3 I missed you?
November 29, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Is this you Twitter? <3 I missed you?