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Iris van Rooij 💭

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

YouTube video by Iris van Rooij

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October 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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Center for Dewey Studies

@deweycenter.siu.edu

Join us tomorrow at 1 pm for Dr. Nicholas Guardiano’s talk, "Emerson's Aesthetic Transcendentalist Legacy: The Idea of Beauty in American Art," in the Center for Dewey Studies (Morris Library Basement). We will have snacks and beverages available, and you are also welcome to bring your lunch.

A photo of the Center for Dewey studies with text reading "Emerson's Aesthetic Transcendentalist Legacy: The Idea of Beauty in American Art" and "A Dewey Center Lunchtime Talk by Dr. Nicholas Guardiano. In between the text is an image of Fallingwater, a home designed by Frank Llyod Wright, and Thomas Cole's painting titled "View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, After a Thunderstorm-The Oxbow."

September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

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.
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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

September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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Rob Farrow

@rfarrow.bsky.social

Hot off the press! It's the JIME Special Collection, Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices

edited by myself, @eam0.bsky.social, Giselle Ferreira and Kyungmee Lee

Check it out if interested in #AI in #Education (or metaphors generally)

jime.open.ac.uk/collections/...

Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices | Journal of Interactive Media in Education

jime.open.ac.uk

August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM

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Baxter Williams

@trustbelieveknow.com

For those who don't know, there is a gofundme set up for Helen's family.

They are very humble to not mention it, so I will.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

Donate to Support Helen's Children After Her Passing, organized by Marcus Arvan

Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing

www.gofundme.com

June 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM

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Dr Juliette

@ferrydanini.bsky.social

Please consider contributing to this gofundme, this is really important for helping support Helen's family

Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 20

A gofundme fund for Helen de Cruz's children, set up with Helen's blessing by @marcusarvan.bsky.social:

June 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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Matt Weiner

@mattweiner19.bsky.social

Besides the personal tragedy, Helen's untimely passing leaves their family in a difficult financial situation. Donate to support them:

Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Jun 20

A gofundme fund for Helen de Cruz's children, set up with Helen's blessing by @marcusarvan.bsky.social:

June 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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Aidan McGlynn

@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social

A gofundme fund for Helen de Cruz's children, set up with Helen's blessing by @marcusarvan.bsky.social:

June 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM

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Christopher R. Matthews

@drcrmatthews.bsky.social

Free ECR/PGR workshop in Nottm next month. Details in the thread below, email or DM me to register. It will be a fun and interesting day. Please share.

April 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Raphael Wimmer

@raphaelwimmer.bsky.social

Frustrating but imho accurate description from @amyko.phd 's trip report from #CHI2025 - the largest academic conference on human-computer interaction.

medium.com/bits-and-beh...

The vast majority I met, however, just seemed fully captured by the capitalist LLM hype machine, trying to build their academic reputations around validating LLM applications that might promise jobs and continued funding, in the exact same way industry seems to be desperately betting on a techno-utopian deus ex machina to our global unrest about diversity and climate. HCI has always been a bit dominated by corporate pop culture, but this extreme, at this moment, has never felt more tragic and heartless.

May 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM

Lenandlar Singh

@lenandlar.bsky.social

Prof Pat Thomson has written about this and I find it so very useful patthomson.net/2021/07/05/t...

April 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD

@jayvanbavel.bsky.social

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation.

We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620

See more details below:

April 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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Audrey Watters

@audreywatters.bsky.social

How can anyone cultivate a moral relationship to creative and intellectual work – their own and others' – if we're building it atop (or rather, pushing a button to autogenerate from) a technology of deception and theft? 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-plagiari...

The Plagiarism Machine

If you don't mind, I'd like to return to that other big story that appeared recently in The Atlantic. No, no, not the one where editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg describes how he was added to the Trump...

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com

March 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM

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Anna Puzio

@annapuzio.bsky.social

I published a new article on "AI & the Disruption of Personhood" in the Oxford Intersections doi.org/10.1093/9780...

👤 Can AI possess personhood or be part of our personhood?
@esdit.bsky.social @utwente.bsky.social @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social #oxforduniversitypress #oupacademic #ethics #ai (1/4)

AI and the Disruption of Personhood | Oxford Intersections: AI in Society | Oxford Academic

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March 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Mark Coeckelbergh

@coeckelbergh.bsky.social

New article on AI and epistemic agency published in the journal Social Epistemology

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

www.tandfonline.com

March 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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@emilyherring.bsky.social

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