Mastodawn

We're extending the deadline to Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.

https://bit.ly/retroai26

#artificialintelligence #critcode #criticalAI

Harald Klinke Dec 29

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/

sonja dolinsek Dec 23

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

Evaluating LLM “Research Assistants” and Their Risks for Novice Researchers

Abstract. LLM research assistants promise gains in efficiency and productivity, purporting to “streamline” the challenging, recursive, and often messy work of identifying, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing the existing research on a given topic. These tools have prompted concern in scholarly research communities, particularly among educators, who understand the processes of research-based writing—including rhetorical analysis, source evaluation, and the ability to grasp and analyze a set of research questions and to locate them in a larger context—as crucial activities, integral to building students’ intellectual abilities and skills. Through a close examination of one LLM research assistant, Google's NotebookLM, this analysis emphasizes four major points about NotebookLM and LLM research assistants more generally: (1) They are not good at summarizing texts: they get things wrong, make things up, and do so in complex, nonobvious ways; (2) Their outputs mimic, but do not actually produce, the outcomes of human reading comprehension and source synthesis; (3) They are proprietary black boxes; and (4) They risk harm to the cognitive development of their users. By helping students to develop practical understandings of how LLM systems generate what is called “research,” educators can empower them to assess the true capabilities, limitations, and consequences of these products.

Duke University Press

eqtv Dec 20

How to Build a Fair AI

https://peertube.eqver.se/w/eDzxzAXfdFhhMN5M8ZQYMf

How to Build a Fair AI

PeerTube

THE * HIDDEN * NODE Dec 7

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

ana vldv Dec 2

📢 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 ana.valdivia@oii.ox.ac.uk.

#CriticalAI

The-14 Oct 1

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/

Why we should be skeptical of the hasty global push to test 15-year-olds’ AI literacy in 2029 | The-14

Global plans to test 15-year-olds’ AI literacy in 2029 risk rushing education reforms, sidelining teachers, and serving tech interests over student needs.

The-14 Pictures

Harald Klinke Sep 11

👀 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
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#PlatformCapitalism #DigitalCulture #AlgorithmicInfrastructures #MediaStudies #VisualCulture #DigitalArt #CriticalAI @bildoperationen

React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism (Zurich, 2-4 Oct 24)

Roland Meyer. Zurich, Oct 2–04, 2025

CerYo Sep 6

Hi ihr da draußen

>>>>>>>>>19.Sept. -17:30<<<<<<<<<<

Beginn des diesjährigen Critical AI Lab

>>>Details: https://bugbone.form-f.art<<<

Der Eintritt ist frei.
Kommt vorbei zur Vernissage mit AI Jam
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Die komplette Veranstaltung wird ehrenamtlich organisiert. Wir freuen uns daher über jede Spende:
https://bugbone.form-f.art/donate.html
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#unmask_ai #bugbone #berlin #coding #prompting #BerlinEvents #berlinartist #CriticalAI #Bias