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Please read Dr. Guest's paper. It's the way we should proceed with AI.

Daily Mail, Friday, July 16, 1993 Abortion hope after 'gay genes' findings By JASON LEWIS SCIENTISTS in America claim to have found the first definite evidence of a genetic link to homosexuality

how easily would most regular folks support targeted eugenics against a minority group
well….

I absolutely loved reading this paper! I felt the need to read 3.3 onward, out loud, to myself, in an appropriately dramatic voice.

This clip...I have no words.

Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.

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Screenshot from section 4

Also and perhaps most importantly, my redefinition of AI allows us to:

👩🏼‍💻👪 Center human cognition

🤖🤥 Reject AI hype

🤔⚛️ Consider AI in general abstracted terms

⏰📜 Grant AI a (pre)history

🔗📝 doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Screenshot from section 4 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.19960

Screenshot from section 4

Some more on this; we need to: act when displacement AI relationships take place, realise that only we can uphold human-align values, and reject benchmarks and correlations as evidentially valuable, realising they are red herrings. See images or full paper here: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Human-machine "relations are no longer captured by already flawed metaphors like the echo chamber — the echo has gone, the chamber is devoid of people: we neither shout nor are heard. We abandon our voice, forget how to use it, and forfeit what makes humans special in"

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Also if students are using it to help them right essays without already knowing what's superficial blah and what's actually critical analysis, then they're never going to understand what's its doing badly even if they check the references. I worry it's bleeding into their own real writing.

This nails a lot on the head: we know with extreme deskilling & poor education that sadly a non negligible number of people are NOT experts at anything. This causes an easy to predict vicious cycle where the use of chatbots causes more of a loosening of these vulnerable people's grip on reality.

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AI is a fascinating subject but the interest is not driven by genuine curiosity in its intricacies (like cognitive science) but rather (much like crypto) by hype and dreams of easy access to unlimited money and power and other such bro motivations (brotivations?)

Akhras, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, lost his home to an Israeli strike, in early 2024. He and his family have been displaced multiple times, living in tents where the canvas sweats from too many bodies pressed into too little space. He no longer sits in a white-walled office or wears a badge. But he continues to work, seeing some fifty patients a day, most of them children. One of his regular patients is a young girl, no older than fourteen, who survived a strike that killed her entire family. She woke up in an I.C.U., alone, unable to understand where everyone had gone. Now she sits in front of Akhras in silence, until she asks, again and again, if he can bring them back. He has no answer, only a pencil stub and a coloring book, which he hopes she can use to express and process her emotions.

Read this passage, please, about trying to provide therapy for trauma in Gaza, even though it should make you feel like you are stabbing needles into your eyes.

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"More people live outside their country of origin today than at any other time in history; we are the majority. The term ‘minority’ seems inadequate when referring to ourselves – as migrants or people of colour – because it disempowers us." 🫶🏼

I want to give my parents a ton of credit here — they raised me completely androgynously. They never made me feel like I could or couldn’t do something because of my gender. But *even so*, programming was always in my mind as something esoteric and accessible only to boys in robotics clubs, etc.

Fair point. I think it is both, depending on context. Sometimes it is women being direct and truthful and not using “respectable” “euphemisms” that protect men’s feelings (such as “bias” instead of “sexism” etc.), and sometimes it is exactly as you say.

Sometimes I hear men comment on my and other women’s “tone”, and the men do not realise that what they mean (and what we correctly hear) is “you do not talk like us, and we do not like it”.

This whole 🧵. Resharing as conversation grown overnight. Tech workplace discrimination, harassment, gaslighting - baked in & growing inline w/ AI.

Credit where credit's due, issue was fully acknowledged & managed in my UK PhD research lab when under leadership of Emma Brasington & Peter Cowling.

Also relevant in this context, the work by @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social :

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

this might be useful, esp. where we talk about the harassment women face when they just try to learn coding for example: "technology culture is interwoven with white supremacy, capitalism, competition-as-virtue; and it defaults to extremely polarised gendered archetypes" doi.org/10.5117/TVGN...

Here are my thoughts with @samhforbes.bsky.social

Guest, O. & Forbes, S. H. (2024). Teaching coding inclusively: if this, then what?. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies. doi.org/10.5117/TVGN...

Yeah, the dudebroism in this area is off the charts.

I’ve noticed a LOT of the bros who are (or were) into crypto, Musk, NFTs (lol), etc immediately flocked to generative AI, at least as users 🤔

Nothing else, but you will be hard pressed to find people (e.g. who benefit from the status quo or who prefer euphemisms) to admit it. Many fail to understand the concept of systemic sexism.

I know because I live it

The reason is sexism. AI has a bro culture

well I have a personal experience pov on this which is that if you're going to do work on AI and you're remotely femme presenting you need to wear full body armor at all times, mentally speaking

Came here to say sexism is the explanation, but you said it better

Questioning AI Resource List Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I wrote our head of IT in the fall saying that faculty and students needed a way to block copilot..he said he would bring it up with Microsoft as it could only be done at an administrative level. Still no response. I wrote him and our union last week to say we should consider dropping Microsoft.

I don't want it near me and I'm in an AI department FWIW. openletter.earth/open-letter-...