#criticalai — Public Fediverse posts

Absolutely delighted to announce UVA's @lanaswartz (Lana Swartz), Cornell's Malte Ziewitz, & Oxford's Janaki Srinivasan have just been named CBI Research Fellows. CONGRATULATIONS & THANKS to Lana, Malte & Janaki!! Link to article below.

#socialsicences #humanities #sociology #anthropology #mediastudies #criticalai #aistudies #communication #history

Article:

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/new-cbi-research-fellows-just-named-janaki-srinivasan-lana-swartz-and-malte-ziewitz

I don't know if any of you has stumbled into "Chloe vs History" yet, a fully AI - generated history channel that promises not only entertainment, a young woman with a hint of nipples, but also real history.
Luckily someone has taken the initiative to engage with yet another #AISlop. It's worth watching given the proliferation of AI-content about the past.
#CriticalAI #History #histodons
How AI Slop Is Rewriting History - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQKJDWtO2yA

This commentary with Christine Cuskley is now officially published https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26104816

Find it in PDF form here https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3699968_1/component/file_3699969/content

#linguistics #llms #genAI #criticalAI

📢 Heute stellen wir euch die Challenge #CriticalAI vor.
💪 Herausforderung
Jugendliche lagern Denk- und Reflexionsprozesse zunehmend an KI aus. Das kann Urteilskraft und kritisches Denken beeinträchtigen.
🧭 Handlungsfeld
#Bildung
🛠️ Nutzen
Eine KI-Infrastruktur die KI an menschliche Denkprozesse und kritisches Denken fördert.
Wer profitiert? Schülerinnen und Schüler an weiterführenden Schulen sowie Lehrkräfte.

🔗 Diese & weitere Challenges findet ihr hier: https://www.civic-coding.de/angebote/accelerator

"Der umgekehrte Zentauer" – Cory Doctorows programmatische Rede, in der er seine fundierte und informierte KI-Kritik zusammenfasst, auf Deutsch übersetzt bei @digitalcourage Ein starkes Bild, ganz wunderbar 🦉 : https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2026/der-umgekehrte-zentaur-ki @pluralistic #criticalai #digitalphilosophy #digitalesouveraenitaet

Pretty chuffed to hear from the organisers that my "How not to use AI" preconference workshop helped set the tone of the following days, and that scholarly values and the benefits of slowing down were recurring conversation topics

If your conference or grad school is looking for a workshop format that avoids the tired marketing cliches and productivity narratives around "AI", I'd be happy to do a rerun (time permitting) https://ideophone.org/how-not-to-use-ai-workshop/

#workshop #CriticalAI

@chpollin

> Vielleicht ein Thema für einen AI-/
> RSE-AG-übergreifenden Preconference
> Workshop nächstes Jahr? Ich wäre dabei!

Andererseits habe ich ja auch gerade gesagt, dass ich etwas verunsichert bin, wie ich weitermachen will, weil ich mir die Community (mich selbst inbegriffen) etwas ambitionierter erhofft hatte, was die Substanziierung der Kritik an #AI angeht. Und obendrein ist heute überhaupt kein Tag, wo man so einfach zum Tagesgeschäft der nächsten Konferenzplanung weitergehen kann! Und das hängt ja alles zusammen.

Ich muss echt mal gründlich nachdenken...

#DHd2026 #DHd2027 #LLM #OpenLLM #AIEthics #Iran #Trump #BigTech #Fascism #CriticalAI #CriticalScience

Oh my, I set out to get a sense of the breadth of applied statistics tools, aka “AI”, out there that specifically cater to students and academics. Someone compiled a well-structured list on a Miro board, here: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVJebunIU=/?share_link_id=534322327957
Then I went on to check "SciSpace", ended up testing the literature review "agent". Result: Shallow, at best.
And eventually I found the paper writing assistant, which quite openly says what it does "Autocomplete your thoughts"....
#AI #CriticalAI #HigherEd

Of interest to #criticalai folks dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender...

Gender & Tech: Dis/Misinformat...

This narrows the horizon of intelligence to tasks that can be accomplished with pattern recognition, prediction from data, and the like. We fear this could set limits for human aspirations and for core ideals like knowledge, creativity, imagination, and democracy—making for a poorer, more constrained human future."

#AI #CriticalAI

https://issues.org/ai-limits-human-aspiration-dick-chun-canute/

Better Images of AI challenges the dominant visual clichés of artificial intelligence.
Instead of shiny humanoid robots and sci-fi tropes, the project calls for images that reflect how AI actually works: statistical, situated, human-made, and socially embedded.
#AIImagery #DigitalCulture #AIethics #VisualCulture #CriticalAI
https://betterimagesofai.org/

Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

There is a new issue over at @CriticalAI and a few readings are about Generative AI and higher education, writing, thinking and knowledge production.

Here: Evaluating LLM “Research Assistants” and Their Risks for Novice Researchers (Free for now)
https://doi.org/10.1215/2834703X-12095982

#AI #CriticalAI

Maybe the unsettling part of LLMs isn’t that they’ll “wake up.”
It’s that we might fall asleep because autocomplete got just good enough.

Intelligence isn’t just answers; it’s the friction of thinking.
How do we protect that in an age of instant, eerily plausible text?

#AI #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalAI #DigitalSociety

📢 Academics of mastodon,

We are recruiting one author to contribute to our edited book "A Research Agenda on Critical AI Studies". We are looking for someone who could write a chapter on LLMs from a critical perspective (copyright, surrogation, etc.).

If you are interested, DM or email me at [email protected].

#CriticalAI

Why we should be skeptical of the hasty global push to test 15-year-olds’ AI literacy in 2029
#AI #AILiteracy #Education #AIinSchools #Teachers #OECD #PISA2029 #EdTech #AIPolicy #FutureOfLearning #AIethics #GlobalEducation #CriticalAI
https://the-14.com/why-we-should-be-skeptical-of-the-hasty-global-push-to-test-15-year-olds-ai-literacy-in-2029/

👀 Contemporary networked image cultures are inseparable from platform capitalism.

The international conference «React & Respond» (Zurich, 2–4 Oct 2025) explores the aesthetics, politics, and labour of platform capitalism with scholars and artists across disciplines.

Program: https://arthist.net/archive/50541
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#PlatformCapitalism #DigitalCulture #AlgorithmicInfrastructures #MediaStudies #VisualCulture #DigitalArt #CriticalAI @bildoperationen

JOB: W1-Juniorprofessur: Critical Aesthetics in the Age of AI (w/m/d)
📍 Uni Konstanz
📅 Beginn: 1. April 2026
🕒 Bewerbung bis: 01.10.2025

Vollzeit, ohne Tenure-Track
Gesucht: Literatur‑, Kunst- oder Medienwissenschaft mit Fokus auf medientechnologische Entwicklungen & KI.

Gefordert: Skizze eines Postdoc-Projekts zu „Text/Bild/Medien im Zeitalter von KI“

#Job #CriticalAI #Juniorprofessur #Geisteswissenschaften #Kunstwissenschaft

https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/eebb245cff57ff58b1fcff6563f4b809a9f2c4730