Marcela Suarez

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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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.

Full reference:

* Suarez Estrada, M., Barbara, M., Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. Sustainability Dispatch, Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

@marentierra.bsky.social @olivia.science

We have a name for that:
Critical Washing
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Thanks, Iris!
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ah that (in your OP) is also called whitewashing, specifically ethics washing, see @marentierra.bsky.social Suarez, M., Müller, B.,Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026

A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI

Please sign letter to stop the AI hype:

YouTube video by librebel Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia by Guest et. al. (2025)

✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿

Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:

Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

"Utmost care is needed to avoid [...] critical washing. Critical reflection [is not a box to tick] before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life" — @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Somehow I got people in my mentions asking me why I don’t want to prevent autism. To them, I say:

Hi, welcome to bsky, please go get some neurodiversity education before you injure yourself. #Autistic

Ruled by the Representation Space: On the University's Embrace of Large Language Models This paper explores the implications of universities' rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) for studying, teaching, and research by analyzing the logics underpinning their representation spac...

"Additionally, by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as
essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs." @katschwerzmann.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2505.03513

Dumber because of AI? | Radboud University Does AI make us dumber, or can it enhance our thinking skills? At In'to, we will not wait for the discussion to be resolved. Instead, we choose to learn and to teach how to use AI responsibly.

"We always tell people that AI tools are kind of flawed colleagues: they are not thinking beings, but calculating machines."

Good lord these people are unhingedly cringe

www.ru.nl/en/radboud-i...

Picture of an excerpt from the article that reads as follows: "Of course, the discussion is not limited to this one topic. The use of generative Al is clearly not uncontroversial either when it comes to environmental impact, data provenance, transparency and privacy. In this blog, we only zoom in on the issue mentioned in the title"

Another lesson we can take from this marketing release thinly disguised as high level overview is that 'the west' has never been serious about addressing climate change. The ad includes this statement, then blithely goes on to say: 'let's try it even though the Earth, she burns!'

Critical AI On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

Thank you, Alex. Here's everything in one spot olivia.science/ai

I recommend the project syndicate piece with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social 💖

This post is blowing up.

Please read the full paper 😌✨

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Guest, O., Suarez, et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought. By Moshe Y. Vardi Posted Oct 14 2025

> Computing has always been a seesawing discipline. We had the AI winters of the 1970s and the 1990s, and we had the dot. com crash and the ensuing “Image Crisis.” It seems another crisis is upon us. Will we ever learn? It is time for some serious thinking!

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Activists on the occupation of the Goudsmitpaviljoen: ‘We don't want to stop scientific research, but to stop genocide’ - Vox magazine OPINION – According to 10 students from Nijmegen Student Encampment, last week’s media reports focused too much on the risks of the occupation of the Goudsmitpaviljoen. As a result, the real reason fo...

"Our intention is not to stop scientific research, but to stop a genocide. A laboratory being disrupted for one day is incomparable to the devastation in Gaza. We sincerely hope that Radboud University [understands] the urgency of the situation and the need for action." www.voxweb.nl/en/activists...

Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨

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YouTube video by Iris van Rooij Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Poster of the Open Letter: Stop the uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia, with QR code

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

🩷💛 Check out @olivia.science ‘s CAIL website, with beautiful posters, video/podcast, papers and more! 🤩 olivia.science/ai

Do not miss this interview "Safeguarding science from AI” with experts in the field @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social