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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

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

It’s time to get off the fence on Gaza

NEWS/THE MIDDLE EAST

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July 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

Upstate art weekend in the Hudson valley would be a 7.5 hour / 235 mile drive if you hit all the spots. This map helps you optimize your route to see as much as you can:
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July 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

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The Onveston Letter on Substack

Summary of today

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June 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

May I present the inevitable and unfortunate future of design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrmidAsR14

"Ideate, iterate, and explore faster than ever before. All of the top text, image, and video AI models in one infinite canvas."

May 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

https://arxiv.org/html/2503.23674v1#:~:text=When%20prompted%20to,and%2021%25%20respectively).

So scared and excited to see what the next 10 years will bring.

Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test

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April 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

great tips in here for newbies and garden scholars alike

How to plant your first garden 🍅

A step-by-step guide to getting started, plus lots of unsolicited advice and a must-grow plant list for newbies.

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March 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

My son is developing excellent small talk: "do you have blood?"
"My adults like hot sauce"

March 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water

The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...

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February 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM

Daniel

@themorgantown.bsky.social

If you’re curious about the Drones and the UFOs and whatnot, this livestream just kicked off with some UFO heavy hitters: www.youtube.com/live/ZtjA21I... #drones #ufo #disclosure

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