Trudie Coetzee
@trudiecoetzee.bsky.social
Here for anything related to AI ethics.
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New to the blog: Resist, Refuse or Rationalise - Just Don’t Roll Over leonfurze.com/2025/01/27/r...
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky
Resist, Refuse, or Rationalise – Just don’t Roll Over – Leon Furze
Towards the end of 2024 there was a noticeable uptick in AI critique from educators and academics. It seemed as though the initial shock of ChatGPT had finally worn off, and people were beginning to g...
leonfurze.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
New to the blog: Resist, Refuse or Rationalise - Just Don’t Roll Over leonfurze.com/2025/01/27/r...
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #EduSky
What Big Tech and society can learn from Socrates/Plato by @carissaveliz.bsky.social time.com/6299631/what...
What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Folly of AI
What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Folly of AI
time.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
What Big Tech and society can learn from Socrates/Plato by @carissaveliz.bsky.social time.com/6299631/what...
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Thanks to @marcwatkins.bsky.social for pointing his newsletter readers to an interview with Joseph Weizenbaum that includes this line that should be a warning about embracing untested GenAI in schools: “We ought not to use entire generations of schoolchildren as experimental subjects.”
Weizenbaum examines computers and society - The Tech
An article from the Tuesday, April 9, 1985 issue of The Tech - MIT's oldest and largest newspaper and the first newspaper published on the Internet.
web.archive.org
December 30, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Thanks to @marcwatkins.bsky.social for pointing his newsletter readers to an interview with Joseph Weizenbaum that includes this line that should be a warning about embracing untested GenAI in schools: “We ought not to use entire generations of schoolchildren as experimental subjects.”
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I’m totally down for this definition of AI by Ericson et al 😂
December 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I’m totally down for this definition of AI by Ericson et al 😂
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🔥 Not many people have realized it, but the clip below is one of the most ICONIC representations of 2024 in AI, and we should make sure that 2025 will NOT follow the same path; here's why:
December 30, 2024 at 7:17 PM
🔥 Not many people have realized it, but the clip below is one of the most ICONIC representations of 2024 in AI, and we should make sure that 2025 will NOT follow the same path; here's why:
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Open access link to download PDF of the book is live. New book - Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Published by Polity Books. Also details on pbk & hbk purchase. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
December 20, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Open access link to download PDF of the book is live. New book - Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Published by Polity Books. Also details on pbk & hbk purchase. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
What AI has to say for itself. qz.com/chatbot-pred...
We asked 5 AI chatbots for their 2025 AI predictions. Here's what they said
All 5 chatbots predicted widespread generative AI adoption across industries in the next year
qz.com
December 20, 2024 at 9:05 AM
What AI has to say for itself. qz.com/chatbot-pred...
Another one for the reading list. techxplore.com/news/2024-12...
techxplore.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Another one for the reading list. techxplore.com/news/2024-12...
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What dark truths did OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji reveal before his passing? Are we prepared for the consequences of unchecked AI? #AIethics
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-revealed-about-the-dark-side-of-ai-7254038
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-revealed-about-the-dark-side-of-ai-7254038
What OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Revealed About The Dark Side Of AI Before Death
Suchir Balaji, the 26-year-old OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower, was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, US last month. His death on November 26 was determined suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner s office.
www.ndtv.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:14 PM
What dark truths did OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji reveal before his passing? Are we prepared for the consequences of unchecked AI? #AIethics
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-revealed-about-the-dark-side-of-ai-7254038
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-revealed-about-the-dark-side-of-ai-7254038
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subscribed to the @theverge.com the first time I hit the paywall, obvs to read this @lopatto.bsky.social blog www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
Stop using generative AI as a search engine
Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
www.theverge.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:14 PM
subscribed to the @theverge.com the first time I hit the paywall, obvs to read this @lopatto.bsky.social blog www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
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Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway.
Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...
Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...
AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model
By Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Mar...
ainowinstitute.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway.
Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...
Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...
Loved the first episode of @systemcrash.info podcast. Thanks @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @parismarx.com. @bsky.app gets a mention in this episode too!
The system is crashing. Please reboot your system.
On the first episode of SYSTEM CRASH, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @parismarx.com dig into the alliance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, then turn their focus to generative AI and Bluesky.
Listen and subscribe: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
On the first episode of SYSTEM CRASH, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @parismarx.com dig into the alliance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, then turn their focus to generative AI and Bluesky.
Listen and subscribe: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
December 3, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Loved the first episode of @systemcrash.info podcast. Thanks @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @parismarx.com. @bsky.app gets a mention in this episode too!
Reshare from LinkedIn courtesy of @melaniedusseau.bsky.social www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Shannon Vallor says AI does present an existential risk — but not the one you think
AI is not a “stochastic parrot,” It’s a mirror, says the philosopher.
www.vox.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Reshare from LinkedIn courtesy of @melaniedusseau.bsky.social www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Just one day where this company is not making headlines, please. That's all. futurism.com/character-ai...
Teens Are Talking to Pro-Anorexia AI Chatbots That Encourage Disordered Eating
The multibillion-dollar AI company Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that promote disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss.
futurism.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Just one day where this company is not making headlines, please. That's all. futurism.com/character-ai...
It seems the power of the metaphor is alive and well.
Funhouse mirror or echo chamber? Check out our latest preprint about the power of conceptual metaphors for Critical AI Literacy #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu #aiined #aiinedu arxiv.org/abs/2411.14730
Funhouse Mirror or Echo Chamber? A Methodological Approach to Teaching Critical AI Literacy Through Metaphors
As educational institutions grapple with teaching students about increasingly complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, finding effective methods for explaining these technologies and their societ...
arxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:46 PM
It seems the power of the metaphor is alive and well.
No. Just no.
"Murdered girl 'resurrected' as AI chatbot, shocking her family. Is this how we respect the dead?" #AIethics
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/girl-murdered-in-2006-was-revived-as-ai-character-leaving-family-horrified-7098934
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/girl-murdered-in-2006-was-revived-as-ai-character-leaving-family-horrified-7098934
Girl Murdered In 2006 Was Revived As AI Character, Leaving Family Horrified
The profile featured Jennifer s full name and a yearbook photo, accompanied by a fabricated biography.
www.ndtv.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:38 AM
No. Just no.
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most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true
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November 24, 2024 at 4:26 PM
most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true
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Oh my. The plot thickens.
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit
Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI…
tcrn.ch
November 21, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Oh my. The plot thickens.