Incredibly excited to tell y'all about a project I've been working on for nearly a year with my Data & Society colleague Jenna Burrell, PhD: a special issue of First Monday, "Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power". Every article of the 8 is a banger. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

1/2 Important to understand that deskilling teachers is at the heart of Direct Instruction. Its pioneer, uber-behaviorist Sig Engelmann, said, "The teacher must be viewed as a consumer of instruction material." Also: "We don't give a damn about what the teacher thinks [or] feels"

🤖 Welche KI-bezogenen Kompetenzen brauchen Lehrkräfte? Was bedeutet das konkret für die Bereiche Unterrichten, Erziehen, Beraten sowie Beurteilen & Innovieren? Und welche Rolle spielt dabei die Intransparenz von KI? Das erklärt Bardo Herzig in #PlanBD: magazin.forumbd.de/lehren-und-ler…

The 4th installment in the Beyond ChatGPT series is about tutoring. When you reduce education to a transactional relationship and start treating learning as a commodity you risk turning education into a customer-service problem for AI to solve instead of a public good for society

“Training on large quantities of text scraped from the internet…can constitute an adverse impact to individuals’ right to own property & protection of material interests where authors have not given consent for their works to be used for training purposes.” —UN Human Rights World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

The author of "Black Meme" has ideas for how to protect digital culture from the rise of generative AI. It starts with embracing slow media. wired.trib.al/6JD32pc

My book on the ways human rights are entangled in digital capitalism is coming out in paperback. Available for pre-order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-infor…

The common aspect of the #AI pitch is that you will be able to escape human interaction, and also escape using your own brain. Each Apple vid is more dystopian than the last. 1: “Calling mom is to avoided at all costs”

Folks, "PhD-level" intelligence isn't a thing Benchmarks like GPQA test question-answering NOT intelligence Fine-tuning models to answer questions DOESN'T measure their "intelligence" or constitute the models as lawyers, doctors, PhDs or what have you. BS all the way down!

New: Meta has quietly scrapped its celebrity AI chatbots less than a year after launch. The company spent millions on deals with celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Snoop Dogg, but the AI characters never took off. Story w/ Kaya Yurieff + Kalley Huang: theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Indeed. And the situation is only getting worse with time, as I see more and more grants, projects, and communities built on money from the AI hype and problematic tech.

1/3 HUGE update on our case! We won BIG as the judge allowed ALL of our claims on copyright infringement to proceed and we historically move on The Lanham Act (trade dress) claims! We can now proceed onto discovery! The implications on this order is huge on so many fronts!

"Privacy is inevitable" People want #privacy. Democracy needs privacy. Privacy laws are getting better. Big tech is still engaging in large scale privacy violations. Enforcement needs to do some catching up. Tools like WebXray can help. Check it out. wired.com/story/webxray-…

We have also developed our #PlayfulByDesign research to show how it supports our wider #DigitalFutures4Children agenda for #ChildRightsByDesign, helping to implement #UNCRC #GeneralComment25 at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36… - read o/a at eprints.lse.ac.uk/124301/1/Playf…

1 - You have a strong belief about a topic. 2 - You search out evidence to back it up. = That's motivated reasoning It's easy to find *anything* online. It's harder but doable to let facts & evidence inform your understanding of a topic. 🔗 Infographic: bit.ly/CognitiveBiase…

So many people confuse LLMs (or genAI, in general) for models of human cognition, language, learning, etc., so I thought it may be useful to share once more my brief comment, titled "Psychological models and their distractors". (open access link: rdcu.be/cGQpY) 🧵