Guest, O., Blokpoel, M., & van Rooij, I. (2026). What the func? Multiple Realizability need not be Vague. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) | Radboud University The Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) project provides new scientific insights and innovative ways of thinking based on expert critical perspectives on AI in science and society.

"The Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) project provides new scientific insights and innovative ways of thinking based on expert critical perspectives on AI in science and society.” — @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/research/...

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with."

— Ada Lovelace, 1843

Consider signing this open letter. We must fight against the auto-destruction of the university as an institution where skills essential to democracy are being learned and practiced: reading, interpreting, writing, formulating research questions that go beyond the normative rationality of LLMs

Reminder to academics in Europe, the union has out backs in principle including @ucu.org.uk in the UK and @fnv.bsky.social in Netherlands because this is a book by @etui.bsky.social @etuce.bsky.social

See thread:

Box 1 — Implications of intractability

I had a realisation

Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources

My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) | Radboud University The Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) project provides new scientific insights and innovative ways of thinking based on expert critical perspectives on AI in science and society.

Voor meer info, zie: www.ru.nl/en/research/... cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER YouTube video by Ghost in the Machine

"Join on March 29 for a virtual Q&A for everyone who's had a chance to watch the film.”

Can join the Q&A here: notaidoc.com/literacy

Can watch here: kinema.com/films/ghost-...

Trailor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9DA...

The complicity of universities cannot be understated...

The few of us fighting back aren't enough.

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Language is so funny.

"Cannot be overstated" and "cannot be understated" mean similar things in this context. Ha.

You can't overstate it means it's not possible to. Can't understate it means please don't understate it. Help me do both, I guess.

Coming out of migraine and words are difficult. 🫪

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai

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I guess so too!

Hollowed, with Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij and Andrea Reyes Elizondo

A very special episode, have a listen: pca.st/episode/59c7...

Hollowed, with @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social

This summer school is about the real Critical AI literacies, not the washing type. You cannot miss it! Just two weeks to apply for the early bird application. Deadline is 31 March.

LLM and chatbot use in the classroom means accepting that both students and teachers can openly appropriate work that is not theirs, and requires disclosing to society (a secondary audience) that thinking and integrity are not required. Using AI products to generate academic con- tent is against any conceivable set of rules we already have in place to regulate fraud and make sure that students actually, when following the rules, learn what they are expected to learn. Failure to see this buys into the hype and if retrofitted onto past cases brings up essay mills as a permissible educational ‘tool’ — clearly anti-pedagogical and utterly bizarre.

For more — and more in-depth — information, also read:

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

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Cover of the 2025 Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference

What's "Critical" about "Critical AI"? A Recommitment to Humanistic Inquiry in the Ostensible March to Hyper-Automation

The #cwcon25 Proceedings are here, and I'm grateful for the inclusion of my keynote, "What's 'Critical' about 'Critical AI'? A Recommitment to Humanistic Inquiry in the Ostensible March to Hyper-Automation."

Thank you to the editors and peer reviewers for making this Proceedings possible!

Apply for our Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming. More information and resources:

this is more along the lines of things they should be teaching bsky.app/profile/iris...

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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Apply for our Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming. More information and resources:

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.”