We've been here before! Parallels between AI and tobacco, and other warnings.

If you want to hinge off a useful parallel go for the tobacco and the petrochemical industries...

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Also see bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Yeah all that stuff is nonsense because Anglos think they converse online or whatever only with other monolinguals furthering their perception everybody is like them when most of the world knows many languages

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Thanks for the heads up. One of them is a science journalist, but good to realize the others may be fake

Also speaking of values... "you do realise using an LLM to find patterns is a QRP, right?"

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You might enjoy / despair reading this section

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See also

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Exhibit C

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Exhibit B

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This also reminds me to say that AI is opposed to all literacy it's anti intellectual and destroys all learning if we allow it to

Exhibit A

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slop science

Don’t seek permission, center values When you're enamoured of a technology and someone points out important ethical challenges, a typical reflex is to seek permission:…

It's okay, you don't need my permission ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe...

As for what I do or do not realize about LLMs, feel free to peruse my work doi.org/10.5281/zeno... or that of colleagues like www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa...

@samhforbes.bsky.social and I wrote about this exact thing with air pollution and iirc back when we were all on twitter more than a few bros got upset we said it

To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models doi.org/10.1111/cogs... pdf: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...

AI 🤝🏻 air pollution
knowledge of harm
does not prevent it

and also i think this point is sharp about the way they want to prioritize experimental privately owned individual-level interventions over larger-scale collective interventions (like improving indoor air quality) with proven benefits

that's a pattern that pops up all over the place

Et voici une traduction en français de la lettre (merci à @anouch.bsky.social et à @sven.blacksky.app pour leurs relectures et suggestions, je suis pas très bon en français formel 😊). Signez signez signez ! 📝 aeporreca.org/blog/lettre-...

I think it was @mattwall.bsky.social who said, “if you can’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to read it”👏🏽

Responses demonstrate the problem of our times -- principles and integrity are meaningless once one buys into the industry narrative

Love this clear-headed idea for ERC — @erc.europa.eu please take note. Innovative work requires independent minds. A policy like this would send the signal that the funder values clear thinking over automated thoughtlessness, quality over quantity, earnest novel work over mediocre rehashings.

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Disabling Intelligences This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

This mkt slogan from big tech on how their shitty products help disabled people is opportunistic and wrong. If they care so much about people why are they exploiting workers in the Majority World?
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Are you sharing first with french speakers or France based academics or all of us? 🩵

Also I guess this fits the bill, but maybe you've seen it?

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The (im)possibility of AI literacy Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2026)

Also @shengokai.blacksky.app have you seen:

Pangrazio, L. (2026). The (im)possibility of AI literacy. Learning, Media and Technology, 51(1), 1–7. doi.org/10.1080/1743...

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We've been here before! Parallels between AI and tobacco, and other warnings.

You may appreciate this one by @olivia.science too

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I'm committed to supervising / examining only students not using generative AI for any component of their thesis- or dissertation-writing. I'm a critical scholar of AI (this is an area of expertise), and I don't consider synthetic text generation to be demonstrative of any intellectual capacity or rigour and I believe it stands in contradiction to the goals of a higher education.

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The struggle I’m now having is with students who have a ‘disclosure of AI use’ in their dissertations, permitted by their dept/institutions…

> We have been here before, both with entanglements of AI and statistics with industry corrupting our academic processes, and with so-called AI summers: hype cycles that pivot from funding booms to complete busts and cessation of research

"Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies
should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and cigarette
smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them." - I love it.