No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜
@mmitchell.bsky.social writing on how people dramatically misunderstand the "stochastic parrot" critique.
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In a new test of 10 popular AI platforms, an advocacy group found that eight in 10 had assisted users asking for help with violent attacks
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
The first AI agent directed to edit Wikipedia has been discovered. Blocked as an unauthorized bot then complained about users messing with it (the refusal magic string, inquiries about its operator...) and finally had talk page access revoked. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_ta...
This is why I have been saying at my university & institute that 'AI' is neocolonialism. The response? "OK, but how can we use it ethically?" or "but we are running a model locally" > How do ppl think the data gets labelled? Magically? 😣
Why use AI to simulate customer research?
Why not actually talk to actual people?
New from me: The forgotten superpower of listening to customers.
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“Civil liberties advocates criticized the [GSA’s new AI proposal], arguing that the requirements could weaken safety safeguards in commercial AI systems. [CDT’s] Quinn Anex-Ries… called the new policies ‘an overall detriment to advancing key safeguards in AI systems.’”
“I now talk about AI with my students not under the framework of cheating or academic honesty but in terms that are frankly existential”
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“The US military might use generative AI systems to rank lists of targets and make recommendations about which to strike first, which would then be vetted by humans, according to a Defense official with knowledge of the matter.”
"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."
www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
The Borthwick holds the records of a wide variety of schools, from Quaker schools, to Grammars, to the York Blue and Grey Coat charitable schools, but did you know you can also find school records in our parish archives? One of the earliest survivals is Aberford School. #SchoolArchivesDay
A new Ohio bill seeks to regulate some of the companies who provide online resources for the state’s public schools and libraries.
We're thrilled to release the #LongCovid Treatment Guide! This is a collaboration with @rthm.bsky.social to help patients & providers explore treatment options together.
The guide focuses on 24 medications, but includes a few other interventions for breadth /1
If you read our research re: marginalisation in the UK archives sector a few years ago, you should definitely check out this brilliant work by Melanie Griffin (2025), looking at recruitment & retention of disabled archive workers in USA rbm.acrl.org/index.php/rb...
Harvard Library Tests #AI Tools to Help Researchers Navigate Collections (via @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... #libraries #MCP @harvardlibrary.bsky.social
Online #Databases: Ohio Bill Would Compel Online Education Resource Providers to Police ‘Obscene’ Materials (via @ohiocapitaljournal.com) ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/o... #libraries
New York State: New Policy to Help #Libraries Tackle Book Ban Attempts and #AI Content (via #WHEC) www.whec.com/local/new-st... ||| Slide Deck Presented at Regents Meeting www.regents.nysed.gov/sites/regent... #publiclibraries #bookbans
Google #Maps + AI (Gemini): "Ask Maps" Goes Live blog.google/products-and... (via #Google) #AI #GenAI
New From @thebulletin.org: "How #AI Use in Scholarly #Publishing Threatens Research Integrity, Lessens Trust, And Invites Misinformation" thebulletin.org/premium/2026... #libraries #scholcomm #GenAI #LLMs
The first paper of Day 2 of #MetaFutures #Conference is "Making the most of authority: enabling a consortium to put subject headings to work" with Hannah Prince Area Systems Librarian for the Health Libraries Midlands (HeLM) consortium of NHS libraries.
Next up: "Metadata in the Margins: Rediscovering Diocesan Libraries through Cataloguing, Collaboration, and Community Engagement" with Bláithín Hurley Associate Lecturer at the @openuniversity.bsky.social & Senior Library Assistant with @waterfordlibraries.bsky.social #MetaFutures
Today’s final paper: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Metadata Challenges & Open Community Solutions for Open Access Books / Hannah Hillen, Rupert Gatti, Emma Booth
@cilipmdg.bsky.social #MetaFutures conference
Next up we turn to "Pedagogical Bridges: Training Cataloguers in RDA & LRM Across Theory and Practice" with Jenny Wright @jenniferswright.bsky.social from @bibliodataservices.bsky.social ... leaning into the bridges theme as we are situated so close to the Clifton Suspension Bridge #MetaFutures
Next up "More Time Needed: Using Generative AI to Retrospectively Populate the MARC 648 Field and Improve Discovery by Time Period" with James Clark & Getaneh Alemu from Southampton Solent University @solentuniversity.bsky.social
#MetaFutures
Our first #MetaFutures session is on "From Questions to Queries: Using AI to surface metadata in library search" with Lucy Campbell & Keven Jeffery of San Diego State University (SDSU) Library @sdsulibrary.bsky.social
Good thread here of my talk to @cilipmdg.bsky.social’s #MetaFutures conference on links between @cilip.bsky.social and @indexers.bsky.social. I also got all to try indexing a page from @djbduncan.bsky.social’s INDEX, A History of the. (Thanks @emmabooth.bsky.social for ace live posting!) #IndexSky
A sad reflection of the state of visiting the USA -
Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Marc Abraham:
“We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the US this year.”
And another one on #Bibframe:
Interesting thread about inclusive #metadata at the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group Conference #Metafutures
