"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."

"[W]e also need to hold our institutions accountable. [...] university administrators are highly susceptible to the temptations of technology-driven downsizing, big tech donations, and the appearance of being on the cutting edge."

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06/11/on-generative-ai-in-the-classroom-give-up-give-in-or-stand-up/

"LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities [...] It's unfortunate how many mentally unwell people are attracted to the topic of AI."

@404mediaco 👌

https://www.404media.co/pro-ai-subreddit-bans-uptick-of-users-who-suffer-from-ai-delusions/

I've started publishing my “Introduction to human-computer interaction” slides as CC-licensed reusable teaching material. (My #OER debut!)

https://fietkau.science/teaching/intro_hci

I've been wanting to share these for more than a year. Doing that all at once felt insurmountable, so now I'm putting them up piece by piece over the summer. 🙂 Two out of 15 sections are up and public now, feel free to browse!

If you follow me for fediverse stuff: this is my day job. 😄

#HCI #HCIedu #usability #ux #teaching #FediLZ

absolutely fascinating story:

It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement of his wife’s grandfather. He shared a few photos. The keys on the typewriter are all in Chinese, Felix noted, and the model does not appear to have ever been sold in the United States. ‘Is it even worth anything?’ he asked (Felix 2025).

By the next day, news of Felix’s find had spread across the Pacific (IT之家 2025). Exclamations of excitement and disbelief flooded the comment section of the original post (see comments to Felix 2025). Thomas S. Mullaney (2025), a historian at Stanford University and the author of The Chinese Typewriter (2018), called it ‘[t]he most important discovery in Chinese history since the rediscovery of Dragon Bones or the Terracotta Warriors’.

(via author's bluesky)

The Atlantic talks about the unethical University of Zurich experiment on r/changemyview https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/reddit-ai-persuasion-experiment-ethics/682676/

Pour mon réseau francophone. La version française de ma tribune "L'Intelligence Artificielle doit devenir une considération citoyenne" a été publiée sur le @mediapartblogs et même mise en avant sur la page de garde du journal en matinée ! Merci pour cette mise en avant, @mediapart !

Vous pouvez retrouver la tribune dans son intégralité à cette adresse :
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jennifer-renoux/blog/280425/lintelligence-artificielle-doit-devenir-une-consideration-citoyenne

I am under a DDoS attack. Not my server, not my service. Me.

And like everything these days, it has to do with #AI.

This is going to be a thread because I'm annoyed and have much to say. It should be called something like "How I wasted a good part of the last 7 years having to react to a dubious technology instead of doing my job". Or perhaps "How a science disappeared". You can decide. /0

Still seeing the odd AI evangelist pop up in my feed arguing that ChatGPT is good, ackshully.

Erm, missing the point. That it can be misleading or wrong certainly provides ammo to critics of generative AI, but the main problems are that LLMs trade short-term results for future understanding, and slowly erode our critical faculties. Some of us value our ability to think for ourselves and do our own research and writing, above convenience.

Plus why hand even more power to the tech broligarchy?

#silentsunday

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

@mattgrayyes it is a wonderful video! It was so great and informative and made me quite emotional too.

I have had the pleasure of writing an opinion piece for a local Swedish newspaper, and now that it is out, I can share here the English (original) version. This version has been translated and shortened for the newspaper, and the link to the newspaper article (in Swedish) is in the post.

https://jrenoux.github.io/popular-science/ai-is-political-issue/

Hope you enjoy it !

Among other things, terrified of the data privacy implications in the proliferation of AI therapy bots. What a horrifying dataset to be leaked, subpoenaed, or auctioned off!

And in many cases, irl therapists can *already* function to surveil and police people in crisis. This could automate and remove even more oversight from that. 🧵

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5351312/artificial-intelligence-mental-health-therapy

https://tuta.com/blog/open-letter-sweden-encryption

Out this week in Cognitive science! @samhforbes & I "urge extreme caution in facilitating the use of LLMs, which like much of modern academia run on private technology sector infrastructure, in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their right to privacy and security, reducing human contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers, and polluting the environment."

https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70058

Seeing the flurry of reporting lately about people becoming dependent on ChatGPT and its ilk, and losing critical thinking skills because of it. I am *so* glad generative AI and tools like Copilot weren't options for me as a stressed & insecure new grad or college student. 🧵

@SzamCha @Khrys @FloRicx @framasoft Alors je vous renvoie à l’auteur initial de la mindmap qui est @cburon, qui me l’avait très généreusement prêtée pour un article!
Et je vous conseille également cet article là, et principalement la table 1 qui est aussi une assez bonne source de discussion à propos des définitions multiples de l’IA : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42113-024-00217-5.pdf

it's not every day that one's research turns up in a homily alongside Aristotle and Catherine of Siena https://www.sydneycatholic.org/homilies/2025/homily-for-the-sydney-catholic-schools-commissioning-mass-for-beginning-teachers-principals-and-the-new-executive-director-thursday-of-the-1st-week-of-lent/

I will admit though that the findings are heartwarming: Shared cross-cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale :OpenAccess: paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30580-5