Daniela Tafani
@danielatafani.bsky.social
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Preprint, Private governments and AI (in Italian)
On what conceptually links the genocidal project on the Gaza Riviera and so-called AI
zenodo.org/records/1552...
On what conceptually links the genocidal project on the Gaza Riviera and so-called AI
zenodo.org/records/1552...
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Da ieri mattina ho dovuto bloccare decine di account su X per gli insulti ricevuti per questo post sul rifiuto di @unibo.it di creare un corso di filosofia per i #militari.
Continuerò a criticare la #militarizzazione della società civile italiana quanto voglio.
Continuerò a criticare la #militarizzazione della società civile italiana quanto voglio.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Da ieri mattina ho dovuto bloccare decine di account su X per gli insulti ricevuti per questo post sul rifiuto di @unibo.it di creare un corso di filosofia per i #militari.
Continuerò a criticare la #militarizzazione della società civile italiana quanto voglio.
Continuerò a criticare la #militarizzazione della società civile italiana quanto voglio.
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Nothing is more docile than a proletariat unequipped to frame their own arguments, relegated to fact-checking a denial of service machine.
December 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Nothing is more docile than a proletariat unequipped to frame their own arguments, relegated to fact-checking a denial of service machine.
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“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I made a machine steal the work of a real human being. It's almost as if the stolen work it regurgitated seems like it was written by a real human being. Instead of giving that credit to the breathing person it was stolen from... perhaps the theft machine is actually alive??
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I made a machine steal the work of a real human being. It's almost as if the stolen work it regurgitated seems like it was written by a real human being. Instead of giving that credit to the breathing person it was stolen from... perhaps the theft machine is actually alive??
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This is related to a post I saw elsewhere.
“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
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 col...
zenodo.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is related to a post I saw elsewhere.
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Ah yes, truly a technological marvel!
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Ah yes, truly a technological marvel!
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Trying to have “meaningful” human control over robot swarms is computationally intractable, even for absurdly simple environments.
But sure, go ahead and promote the use of swarm robots in automated warfare.
I guess the gaslighting is the point.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
But sure, go ahead and promote the use of swarm robots in automated warfare.
I guess the gaslighting is the point.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Swarm Control for Distributed Construction: A Computational Complexity Perspective | ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
Over the last 20 years, human interaction with robot swarms has been investigated
as a means to mitigate problems associated with the control and coordination of such
swarms by either human teleoperat...
dl.acm.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trying to have “meaningful” human control over robot swarms is computationally intractable, even for absurdly simple environments.
But sure, go ahead and promote the use of swarm robots in automated warfare.
I guess the gaslighting is the point.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
But sure, go ahead and promote the use of swarm robots in automated warfare.
I guess the gaslighting is the point.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊
September 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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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.
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...
@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...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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.
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Based on analysis of years of revenues, losses and funding, since 2023, OpenAI has taken in $28.6bn in cash and had $13.7bn in losses.
However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
Where Is OpenAI's Money Going?
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead
Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed.
A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s rev...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Based on analysis of years of revenues, losses and funding, since 2023, OpenAI has taken in $28.6bn in cash and had $13.7bn in losses.
However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
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Open letter, led by @olivia.science, now has >1400 confirmed signatories!
If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Open letter, led by @olivia.science, now has >1400 confirmed signatories!
If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
If you haven’t yet signed, please consider reading & signing too.
Help us stop uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia.
Feel free to adapt this letter for your employers!
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies.
A strategic handover of core military functions to a private company whose founder, Peter Thiel, has declared that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.”
www.authoritarian-stack.info
A strategic handover of core military functions to a private company whose founder, Peter Thiel, has declared that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.”
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies.
A strategic handover of core military functions to a private company whose founder, Peter Thiel, has declared that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.”
www.authoritarian-stack.info
A strategic handover of core military functions to a private company whose founder, Peter Thiel, has declared that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.”
www.authoritarian-stack.info
My presentation on "AI and the destruction of knowledge" is available on Zenodo.
At the 10th AISA Annual Conference, we discussed the overall picture that emerges from the work of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1754...
At the 10th AISA Annual Conference, we discussed the overall picture that emerges from the work of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1754...
AI and the destruction of knowledge
So-called 'artificial intelligence' is simply software - usually proprietary - that runs on computers.‘Artificial intelligence’1. is a marketing term;2. stands for a family of scams;3. is a social, cu...
zenodo.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My presentation on "AI and the destruction of knowledge" is available on Zenodo.
At the 10th AISA Annual Conference, we discussed the overall picture that emerges from the work of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1754...
At the 10th AISA Annual Conference, we discussed the overall picture that emerges from the work of @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
zenodo.org/records/1754...
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Epistemicide
Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here.
Sigh.
August 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Epistemicide
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close the law schools
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
close the law schools
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Whenever you see reports of the financial potential and/or inevitable transformative impact of AI, it's worth reminding yourself of the McKinsey report from just three years ago that predicted that the metaverse would generate $5,000,000,000,000 of value by 2030.
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Whenever you see reports of the financial potential and/or inevitable transformative impact of AI, it's worth reminding yourself of the McKinsey report from just three years ago that predicted that the metaverse would generate $5,000,000,000,000 of value by 2030.
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Fantastic thread (and pre-print) on Critical AI Literacy in Psychology.
The final line from the introduction is brutal: “Ultimately, current AI is research malpractice.”
The final line from the introduction is brutal: “Ultimately, current AI is research malpractice.”
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Fantastic thread (and pre-print) on Critical AI Literacy in Psychology.
The final line from the introduction is brutal: “Ultimately, current AI is research malpractice.”
The final line from the introduction is brutal: “Ultimately, current AI is research malpractice.”
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I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
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He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Unfortunately the satire is entirely indistinguishable from the actual ai industry hype.
Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard
The AI billboard asks you to visit a website called Replacement.AI, which brags that humans are "no longer necessary."
futurism.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Unfortunately the satire is entirely indistinguishable from the actual ai industry hype.
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Unfortunately the @erc.europa.eu isn't helping academics to fight AI but instead telling us to "leverage" it...
October 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Unfortunately the @erc.europa.eu isn't helping academics to fight AI but instead telling us to "leverage" it...
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We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.
"A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 had the unexpected side effect of causing chaos in bedrooms across the US:
some beds overheated, others stopped cooling altogether, and several users said their devices became completely unresponsive."
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
some beds overheated, others stopped cooling altogether, and several users said their devices became completely unresponsive."
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/>
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 had the unexpected side effect of causing chaos in bedrooms across the US:
some beds overheated, others stopped cooling altogether, and several users said their devices became completely unresponsive."
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
some beds overheated, others stopped cooling altogether, and several users said their devices became completely unresponsive."
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...
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Finally a tool for automating confirmation bias.
It's been so tiring coming up with things I'd like to be true, then finding confirming sources after the fact to demosntrate how right I am.
It's been so tiring coming up with things I'd like to be true, then finding confirming sources after the fact to demosntrate how right I am.
October 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Finally a tool for automating confirmation bias.
It's been so tiring coming up with things I'd like to be true, then finding confirming sources after the fact to demosntrate how right I am.
It's been so tiring coming up with things I'd like to be true, then finding confirming sources after the fact to demosntrate how right I am.