Dr Tiera Tanksley

Thank you for reposting Charles !! I always appreciate your support 🥹❤️

I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark.

A long thread 🧵>>

hey hey it's cold outside, you need something cozy to do indoors, how about a movie that you can't see anywhere else? We're screening online through the @sundance.org festival portal in the US through Sunday night! You can buy a single-film pass right here:

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Howard University AI Panel

[VIDEO] @drtanksley.bsky.social - "Dr Tanksley discussed the harms that algorithmic racism within school-based technologies have for Black students" HT @ruha9.bsky.social youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ?...

Excited about seeing this film at #Sundance !

This was interesting one to be interviewed for -- and I'm looking forward to seeing it at Sundance!

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

I finally watched this. The data and the tech are horrifying. @drtanksley.bsky.social’s research and pedagogy, however, are incredible — themselves a reminder of how GREAT great scholarship is. Just so, so good. Truly, everyone pls watch this — to learn about the bad and to be reminded of the good.

Going back to the topic of these AI-detecting technologies some people rely on so much. A friend sent me this clip of @drtanksley.bsky.social and, uh, yeah, that's bleak. I'll admit I wasn't aware of this because I stay away from these tools and the AI discourse in general, but this is terrifying.

Can’t say how important this panel excerpt with @drtanksley.bsky.social is—particularly, IMO, for teachers using grading/anti-cheating programs run by AI.

“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”

Holy f@$k!

“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”

This whole video is jaw-dropping.

Link to the Penn study mentioned, demonstrating the ineffectiveness and disempowering consequences of ChatGPT study tools (even in the best iteration, with safeguards & teacher input, the study tools are no better than traditional study methods): knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/with...

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Howard University AI Panel

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

This wide-ranging response from Dr @drtanksley.bsky.social on AI inadequacies & profound harms in education, reinforcement of racism, anti-blackness, dehumanisation & inequality, & the health & environmental harms of the AI industry is a terrific listen

And universities have signed on to this 🤬

Omg thank you for coming through !!

Hello! Nice to e-meet you 😊

They have indeed.

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

Thank you for doing this work 👏🏽

Research Brief: Teens, Trust, and Technology in the Age of AI In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in everyday life, teens are navigating complex challenges around trust, authenticity, and online safety.

Pleased to see Common Sense has released a report I co-authored with my former colleagues on the impact of experiences with misleading or fake online information among teens and how those experiences can diminish broader trust in online information. www.commonsensemedia.org/research/res...

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Totally agree!!

Yall. Been writing my theory paper introducing Critical Race Technology Theory (CRTT) in education while listening to Not Like Us, Euphoria & now GNX on repeat...

Reading it back rn & I'm like goddamn...😭🔥 this shit kinda got the same energy 😂

squabble up.

Moving from something that is known and held in the body, to something that is written and distilled into words on a page is never an easy journey, but it's definitely one worth taking

In the depths of a new piece on anti-blackness in AI + Education & I have to say:

The slow & deliberate labor of untangling a theoretical knot that's been quietly guiding my work for years is both exhilarating & excruciatingly painful.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates | Mariana Mazzucato Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato

I'm the friend who comments under your post about AI to remind you that it is killing the planet. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Of course !! Appreciate the love 🙏🏽

A picture of my recently published article titled "We're changing the system with this one: Black students using critical race algorithmic literacies to subvert and survive AI-mediated racism in school"

Hey fam!! Just wanted to introduce myself :

I'm a critical technologist that studies algorithmic bias in social media platforms, EdTech solutions, robotics and GenAI.

My area of interests include digital resistance/activism, AI literacies, critical pedagogies & STEM equity

#BlackEduSky