Marcela Suarez

I compiled a sort of follow up here olivia.science/before/ on the situation with ppl thinking we're in some special moment:

"We have certainly been here before. Many many times in the past, companies — just like artificial intelligence (AI) companies now — have lied to us to sell us products."

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this is a good way, as @booch.com frames it here, to flip the pygmalion displacement back on the perpetrators and enablers; more here: olivia.science/ai/#pygmalion; PDF: osf.io/preprints/so...

We need to reclaim "token anxiety" for the feeling gendered and racialised people get when we're invited to all male/white events

“Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas. This requires deep
commitment to the mission of universities, our academic values, our scientific
integrity, and our critical scholarship …”

Critical washing, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social !

Thank you for this feedback. We will take it into in case we offer again the course.

Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

Selfish AI: "I will be thinking ill of you [...] because you have made yet another part of the economy impossible to engage with ethically.

This is how societies die. [...] I have nothing left but contempt for "it is what it is."

www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish... h/t @adolfont.github.io

Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming | Radboud University This course is designed to foster critical AI literacies in participants to empower them to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.

www.ru.nl/en/education... @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science

The uncritical adoption of AI technologies puts scientific integrity, diversity, sustainability, digital sovereignty and democracy at risk. We will discuss ways to resist this adoption in our Summer School “Critical AI literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming”

However, the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in academia is already showing the deskilling of students and teachers, along with an exponential increase of cases of fraud and plagiarism.

AI technologies have been actively promoted in universities under the guise of efficiency, time optimization, and the fear of missing out or “falling behind.”

In our position paper we looked at how the core principles of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for #ResearchIntegrity applies to AI usage. @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @marentierra.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This is a must-read if you want to understand AI colonialism and current apps offering all kinds of services (romance, therapy, and more)

simple drawing of a person gripping another person's mouth shut; the second person is labeled "AI Overview"

kinda proud that my middle schooler sent this to me 🤣

Probably something like critical AI literacy or critical AI studies could work cc @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Putting ‘prompt quality’ into the ‘safeguards’ bin of AI scams

( @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social and I discuss the latter, here: zenodo.org/records/1778...)

Coming out of 3 week migraine (status migrainosus, look it up) & seeing my work — w/ @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social — in Rolling Stone. Guess I shouldn't be as depressed anymore based on facts 😌

Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.

If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:

"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social

Screenshot of text continuing from the previous post. It reads as follows: And many AI tools have fewer benefits and more harms. Let’s start with harms to the environment. Using AI means using data centers. Data centers evaporate water, spew pollutants, and use so much energy that people’s home electricity bills increase near them. Beyond environmental harm, there are also social and mental harms. When a new drug comes out on the market, it has been well tested and regulated so that side effects are known and risks are minimal. AI has no such regulations, yet the side effects are extreme and the extent of risks are unknown. A teen was encouraged into suicide, adults have been driven to complete psychosis. AI is not just disrupting learning, it is disrupting our society, and not in a good way. Last, we have hubris. I’ll end with part of the quote that Guest et al. open their paper with: “The culture of AI is imperialist and seeks to expand the kingdom of the machine. The AI community is well organized and well funded [...] AI scientists believe in their revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all.” That quote is older than I am, from a past era of overhyped, unsustainable, and poorly-defined AI. Those were my original three words, by the way. I stand by them, but I felt my revision provides a better framework for reflection: hype, harm, and hubris. Thank you.

Second half of my 3-minute opening statement for today's panel discussion.

In the panel, we each picked two papers to share on a handout for attendees and guide discussion. Mine were: zenodo.org/records/1706... and unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p... (click through to read titles/authors please!)

Nobody has called me a technopessimist yet.

But I haven't done any research on this myself. I just try to make other people's research on the negative impact of LLMs reach as many people as possible.

Een paar foto's van de demo. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥

extract from pages 4 and 5 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243

Yup, as @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social and I say in Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

"[Guardrails] pose an infinite regress of humans in the loop needed to make pretend of what AI was supposed to solve"

igure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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That's us! Please keep signing: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

More here: olivia.science/ai#activism

Pure excellence.

An interesting approach. After a (very) quick read, I'd like to highlight the following:

"We are pressured to believe that it is possible to automate the scientific process. But science itself is a form of cognition, and therefore cannot be automated..."
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Thanks to you and leadership! Great work!

Tudo bem que é treinado com material roubado, que gasta uma quantidade enorme de energia, que causa crise hídrica, que deixa as pessoas malucas, que faz adolescente se matar, que espalha desinformação, que deixa os bilionários mais ricos, mas pelo menos também causa câncer.