Our recent and much needed article about Critical AI Literacies is out! Thanks to my coauthors Olivia Guest and @IrisVanRooij for the great work. You can find the article here:
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Marcela Suárez
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Marcela Suárez
@Marentierras
AI critic. Lecturer in Critical Intersectional Perspectives on AI at School of Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands Se unió Mart 2013
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"Embracing AI products makes what were once serious transgressions now acceptable and even desirable through normalising: stealing ideas from others, erasing authors, infringing authorship rights; while at the same time harming our planet.” Read more here civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-god…
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Nuestro artículo “Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia” ha sido consultado por 30 mil personas en solo cuatro días. Brinda las herramientas para resistir el AI hype en la academia. Puedes leerlo aquí:
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@o_guest
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… 🦋 bsky.app/profile/olivia…
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"We're already seeing students who are deskilled on some of the most basic academic skills, even in their final years" @o_guest as quoted by @bcmerchant
Their paper urging educators and administrations to reject corporate AI products sounds worth reading.
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Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-sc…
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😌 yes, nowhere is perfect but please join us on the other one 🦋 where we talk about fun preprints like this:
Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025).
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia.
Links below 👇🏼
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Uncritical adoption of AI “undermines our basic pedagogical values and principles of scientific integrity. It prevents us from maintaining our standards of independence & transparency. And most concerning, (…) hinder learning & deskill critical thought.” openletter.earth/open-letter-st…
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People asked me often over the years... now it's over but finally sharing it: Course manual — including readings, instructions on how to write essays and give presentations — for the course AI as a Science that I taught from 2020/21 to 2024/25 in the School of AI. (Link below.)
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Please join me in signing this open letter by Australian academics: openletter.earth/an-open-letter…
“We will not contribute to the erosion of academic freedom & educator agency by forcing educators into compliance with technology they find unethical.” -- Reynoldson & Signatories (2025)
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@gavinmuellerphd many are waking up openletter.earth/an-open-letter…
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“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas & undermine scholarly discussions. It's our task to demystify and challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.”
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@o_guest
Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia (link below)
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I also signed this! Feel free to sign and join the movement!
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@o_guest
Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia (link below)
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¿De verdad un investigador de la UNAM diciendo que el entrenamiento de los modelos de aprendizaje profundo "es análogo al que los humanos experimentan"?
¿Entonces un humano necesita ver millones de imágenes de gatos para después poder reconocer uno?
Tremenda ignorancia.
Gaceta UNAM@Gaceta_UNAM
La IA se parecerá más a la inteligencia natural: Luis Pineda, del IIMAS. En una década será una tecnología invisible. gaceta.unam.mx/la-ia-se-parec…
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“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”
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Iris van Rooij 💭@IrisVanRooij
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas & undermine scholarly discussions. It's our task to demystify and challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-st…
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Marcela Suárez retuiteado
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas & undermine scholarly discussions. It's our task to demystify and challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-st…
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Oh, wow, 150 signatures in 24 hours!
"We have been here before with tobacco, petroleum, and many other harmful industries who do not have our interests at heart and who are indifferent to the academic progress of our students and to the integrity of our scholarly processes."
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@o_guest
Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia (link below)
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☀️ Having a great time at this week’s Summer School on ‘Critical AI Literacy: Sustainability Challenges’, with co-organizers @Marentierras, @JohanKwisthout and Barbara Müller
Check-out our website with the program and useful resources!
critical-ai-literacy.github.io
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