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Marcela Suarez
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Lecturer in Critical Intersectional perspectives on AI at School of AI, Radboud University
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jsanofranchini.bsky.social
kinda proud that my middle schooler sent this to me 🤣
simple drawing of a person gripping another person's mouth shut; the second person is labeled "AI Overview"
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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olivia.science
Probably something like critical AI literacy or critical AI studies could work cc @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Putting ‘prompt quality’ into the ‘safeguards’ bin of AI scams

( @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social and I discuss the latter, here: zenodo.org/records/1778...)
December 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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olivia.science
Coming out of 3 week migraine (status migrainosus, look it up) & seeing my work — w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social — in Rolling Stone. Guess I shouldn't be as depressed anymore based on facts 😌
milesklee.bsky.social new display name of some kind @milesklee.bsky.social · Dec 17
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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olivia.science
If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:

"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
Second half of my 3-minute opening statement for today's panel discussion.

In the panel, we each picked two papers to share on a handout for attendees and guide discussion. Mine were: zenodo.org/records/1706... and unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p... (click through to read titles/authors please!)
Screenshot of text continuing from the previous post. It reads as follows: And many AI tools have fewer benefits and more harms. Let’s start with harms to the environment. Using AI means using data centers. Data centers evaporate water, spew pollutants, and use so much energy that people’s home electricity bills increase near them. Beyond environmental harm, there are also social and mental harms. When a new drug comes out on the market, it has been well tested and regulated so that side effects are known and risks are minimal. AI has no such regulations, yet the side effects are extreme and the extent of risks are unknown. A teen was encouraged into suicide, adults have been driven to complete psychosis. AI is not just disrupting learning, it is disrupting our society, and not in a good way. Last, we have hubris. I’ll end with part of the quote that Guest et al. open their paper with: “The culture of AI is imperialist and seeks to expand the kingdom of the machine. The AI community is well organized and well funded [...] AI scientists believe in their revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all.” That quote is older than I am, from a past era of overhyped, unsustainable, and poorly-defined AI. Those were my original three words, by the way. I stand by them, but I felt my revision provides a better framework for reflection: hype, harm, and hubris. Thank you.
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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adolfont.github.io
Nobody has called me a technopessimist yet.

But I haven't done any research on this myself. I just try to make other people's research on the negative impact of LLMs reach as many people as possible.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Dec 12
Somebody needs to write at length of the unhinged nonsense of calling academics critical of a monstrous technology, esp ones with direct expertise in formalism & implementation details: technopessimist. Are climate experts called pessimists for believing in & fighting against the climate crisis? 1/2
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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altibel.bsky.social
Een paar foto's van de demo. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥
Een band spelend tijdens de mars Een protestboord: where to spend 1 billion €, book no bombs Een AOB hond in een backpack Een protestboord: Invest in scholarship, divest from scholasticide
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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olivia.science
Yup, as @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social and I say in Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

"[Guardrails] pose an infinite regress of humans in the loop needed to make pretend of what AI was supposed to solve"
extract from pages 4 and 5 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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igure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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olivia.science
That's us! Please keep signing: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

More here: olivia.science/ai#activism
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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birgittaj.bsky.social
Pure excellence.
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Dec 7
📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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igure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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emp1.bsky.social
An interesting approach. After a (very) quick read, I'd like to highlight the following:

"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..."
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olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Dec 2
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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iedamarcondes.com
Tudo bem que é treinado com material roubado, que gasta uma quantidade enorme de energia, que causa crise hídrica, que deixa as pessoas malucas, que faz adolescente se matar, que espalha desinformação, que deixa os bilionários mais ricos, mas pelo menos também causa câncer.
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Full reference:

* Suarez Estrada, M., Barbara, M., Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. Sustainability Dispatch, Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

@marentierra.bsky.social @olivia.science
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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adolfont.github.io
We have a name for that:
Critical Washing
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adolfont.github.io Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · Nov 16
"Critical washing" is "encouraging AI use while being 'aware of the risks'".

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November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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adolfont.github.io
Thanks, Iris!
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November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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olivia.science
ah that (in your OP) is also called whitewashing, specifically ethics washing, see @marentierra.bsky.social Suarez, M., Müller, B.,Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
doi.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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altibel.bsky.social
A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026
www.euractiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
marentierra.bsky.social
Please sign letter to stop the AI hype:
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Nov 10
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
krisshrishak.bsky.social Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Nov 10
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿

Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:

Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia by Guest et. al. (2025)
YouTube video by librebel
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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olivia.science
"Utmost care is needed to avoid [...] critical washing. Critical reflection [is not a box to tick] before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life" — @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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rachelneedsanap.bsky.social
Somehow I got people in my mentions asking me why I don’t want to prevent autism. To them, I say:

Hi, welcome to bsky, please go get some neurodiversity education before you injure yourself. #Autistic
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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olivia.science
"Additionally, by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as
essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513
Ruled by the Representation Space: On the University's Embrace of Large Language Models
This paper explores the implications of universities' rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) for studying, teaching, and research by analyzing the logics underpinning their representation spac...
arxiv.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM