Marija Slavkovik
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Marija Slavkovik
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collector of snowflakes. professor of AI at @UiB in Norway.

Computer science 59%
Economics 16%

10% into The Object by Joshua T. Calvert. Bad writing.No clear idea. Done.Curse the algorithm that recommended it

CAST .. because old sins cast long shadows

project applications will continue until morale improves

Reposted by Marija Slavkovik

I'm hiring again! Please share. I'm recruiting a postdoc research fellow in human-centred AI for scalable decision support. Join us to investigate how to balance scalability and human control in medical decision support. Closing date: 4 October (AEST).
uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/
Recruitment
uqtmiller.github.io

Maybe the issue is not that AI will kill us all. Maybe the issue is: it will not care about us

I just started Mordew. The beginning is not working for me, maybe there is a correlation :) let me know if you try

have I ever felt lonely? sure. has it ever occurred to me to take that talk to ChatGPT& its LLM cousins? Hell-no. Why?

As with many aspects of our digital lives, responsibility is too diffuse for accountability. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said
The chatbots are lying about me.
www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Marija Slavkovik

AIhub.org @aihub.org · Aug 21
Many congratulations to the three winners of the distinguished paper award at #IJCAI2025 @ijcai.org
aihub.org/2025/08/20/c...
Congratulations to the #IJCAI2025 distinguished paper award winners - ΑΙhub
aihub.org

English is not mother-language for most in academia. We could have used LLM to translate the mails in our native language we send and learn from the languages. instead we prompt LLM in english and send that drivel around. Same tech, different human choice

tldr: toss a coin to your library if you like the chatting AIs too much www.khrono.no/ingen-sannhe...
Ingen sannhet uten kritisk tenkende
Vi tar alle fram telefonen, når vi skal sjekke fakta. Men er det vi finner ut der sant?
www.khrono.no

safety is optional
A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 14
A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj
@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

If you can prove, then you are not talking about trusting but knowing. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Will we ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks?
An example from the history of mathematics shows how views on the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence can quickly start to change
www.newscientist.com

The fifth element is information
a woman in a leopard print coat is holding a statue of a skull .
ALT: a woman in a leopard print coat is holding a statue of a skull .
media.tenor.com

I think this is wrong. You cannot sell what is your human right. At least you should not be able to. Tech or not.

In light of Meta-takes-your-messages-data a throwback to this excellent article scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol75/...
Algorithmic Destruction
Contemporary privacy law does not go far enough to protect our privacy interests, particularly where artificial intelligence and machine learning are concerned. While many have written on problems of ...
scholar.smu.edu

We cite what we are aware of. Let that sink in.
a man is standing in front of a brick wall reading a piece of paper
ALT: a man is standing in front of a brick wall reading a piece of paper
media.tenor.com

I have reached that stage where I read an old paper of mine and think: mhm this is actually rather a good idea
a woman stands in front of a white board with oh god written on the bottom
ALT: a woman stands in front of a white board with oh god written on the bottom
media.tenor.com

to tie you over, Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Suffering from the heat wave ☀️☀️🥵🥵? How about a nice postdoc in AI in Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴. Our summers are always cool 😎🆒🌡️. Read the fine print!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Lead AI postdoctoral research fellow position in Information Science and/or Media Studies (283570) | University of Bergen
Job title: Lead AI postdoctoral research fellow position in Information Science and/or Media Studies (283570), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no

Hashtag 25272 and 25271 Dagstuhl

I always thought smokers had the unfair advantage to be able to just go out and take a break in social situations. I will start using “I need to go and monitor the perimeter” #murderbot

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There is unethical use of AI and unethical lack of use of AI… like when you murder the room with powerpoint