@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Or here:
www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...
Text version pp41-45 here:
doi.org/10.54675/KEC...
No, I don't "AI" represents a useful or essential skill set. What's needed is the ability to think critically about automation.
You might find some useful arguments in our book (w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social )
thecon.ai
Funny typo, dude. Also, see my previous reply to you.
07.10.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe check who you're talking to before jumping in with the mansplaining.
07.10.2025 17:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Gah. That's both predictable and awful. Also probably contrary to the ACL's Publication Ethics Policy (both any meta reviewer doing that, and the authors' actions).
07.10.2025 13:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The "AI" research community:
1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024)
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Screenshot of AAAI automated review announcement reading: 1. Supplementary First-Stage Reviews: LLM-generated reviews will be included as one component of the initial review stage, providing an additional perspective alongside traditional human expert evaluations. 2. Discussion Summary Assistance: LLMs will assist the Senior Program Committee (SPC) members by summarizing reviewer discussions, helping to highlight key points of consensus and disagreement among human reviewers.
Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.
aaai.org/aaai-launche...
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Just what academic research needs...more AI slop to deal with. Honestly!
06.10.2025 20:54 β π 19 π 4 π¬ 1 π 06) Wants the rest of us to believe that their work should now be incorporated into everything we do, in every sphere of our lives.
NO THANK YOU.
5) Is now ready (at least at AAAI) to use synthetic text extruding machines as part of their "scientific" peer review process (AAAI 2025)
aaai.org/aaai-launche...
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4) Pretends that they have to have the ability to push preprints into the world immediately upon drafting (I guess because their value is incredibly perishable; see Bender 2023)
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
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3) Has extremely selective and presumably high prestige conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI) but orients towards arXiv and regularly cites arXiv versions of even published papers
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2) Plays leaderboard games instead of doing serious evaluation (see Raji et al 2021)
datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/h...
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The "AI" research community:
1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024)
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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I'd say this speaks to the (abysmal) scientific standards of "AI" research.
06.10.2025 19:29 β π 14 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0For a satirical take, see:
bsky.app/profile/shah...
A careful, measured approach to ensuring quality peer review would not start from the premise that synthetic text extruding machines have anything to add!
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βThis pilot represents a careful, measured approach to incorporating new technology into the scientific review process,β said Stephen Smith, AAAI President.
I can see your problem right there, Stephen. You've assumed you have to incorporate the new tech.
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Screenshot of AAAI automated review announcement reading: 1. Supplementary First-Stage Reviews: LLM-generated reviews will be included as one component of the initial review stage, providing an additional perspective alongside traditional human expert evaluations. 2. Discussion Summary Assistance: LLMs will assist the Senior Program Committee (SPC) members by summarizing reviewer discussions, helping to highlight key points of consensus and disagreement among human reviewers.
Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.
aaai.org/aaai-launche...
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With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?
"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."
www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...
Bernie's staff would be well to pay attention to actual research on this topic, and the historical record on automation, rather than buying into the tech industry's hype in their marketing and paper-shaped objects.
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It is the honor of my lifetime to share that @universitypress.cambridge.org will publish the @lingsocam.bsky.social's new Journal of Black Language & Culture. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language & culture through a global, diasporic lens.
And if you prefer to watch & listen to talks, here's the talk it is based on:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-...
Apropos of today's Discourseβ’οΈ, I'd like to circulate the link to this paper again:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Alternative formats in next posts >>
The wild discourse about how being mean to your air fryer is eugenicist reminds me that I have been very slack re promoting this podcast from a few weeks ago with @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social about the actual eugenisms of AI: open.spotify.com/episode/52R2...
06.10.2025 11:52 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1Itβs worth highlighting text of that sign: βJB, your words mean nothing, come to Broadview in person, demand an inspection, put your billions where your mouth is, or are you just like every other politician?β My thoughts exactly. ISP is helping the agenda you say you reject @govpritzker.illinois.gov
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And if you prefer to watch & listen to talks, here's the talk it is based on:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-...
If you hit a paywall, here's a preprint:
faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...
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Apropos of today's Discourseβ’οΈ, I'd like to circulate the link to this paper again:
doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Alternative formats in next posts >>
