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o my body, make of me always a man who question. because we’re all watched over by machines of loving grace | researching psycho-technopolitics | meaning making

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

My chapter "The New Spirit of #Education and the Techno-Politics of #AI" is out now in the Handbook of Critical Studies of AI and Education (ed. @wayneholmes/@ElgarPublishing ), alongside the launch of the new Critical Studies of AI and Education Network: https://t.co/9RA1MLdPO6

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

@C_Hendrick what has ‘unstoppable learning’ to do with education? education without teachers is ‘body without organs’ to put it in Deluzian words…

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

education framed under logic of “efficiency” is NOT education.

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[liemandt @jliemandt]

Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, on Alpha School:

"we already know that a private tutor is about twice as efficient as a classroom"

"and AI (tutors) should be much more efficient than that"

"which leaves more time for the socialization aspect of education where you do want to interact with the people and have team projects and things"

"That seems very good to me."

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

I called it “theftploitation” — a system built on theft and exploitation.

https://t.co/KpYgxkXjRb

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt says “almost all” AI systems are “built on mass theft,” arguing that companies using large language models “shouldn’t be forgiven for that past theft.”

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

“I would prefer not to” — Melville’s #Bartleby as inspiration for #cultural freedom in the age of #AI

my abstract for upcoming workshop on AI and Culture: https://t.co/wgif3T2lhj

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

@RobertoBurioni Reinforcement Learning è una architettura di Machine Learning classico (essiste da decenni). Intelligenza Artificiale è sexy in questi giorni per utilizzare come “buzzword” Anche l’articolo dice che GenAI non è “reliable”.
Nel Deep Learning, forse GANs sono più interessanti

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

@danmcquillan check my last note ;) https://t.co/2qNO56ntAe

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

@gquaggiotto i’m trying to reach out. can u pls dm?

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

A new note from my website: “Generative themes without Generative AI”: https://t.co/2qNO56ntAe

#Freire #criticalpedagogy #AI #GenAI #LLMs #AIED #education

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

@StanfordHAI @mehran_sahami productafication of education is the disease of education.

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

Türk, December 2023: “A quarter of humanity is caught in global conflicts” https://t.co/jZvQx2fCa4

Türk, March 2026: “AI can be a game-changer for human rights: it can predict crisis […]”

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

AI can be a game-changer for human rights: it can predict crises, transform healthcare and education, tackle food insecurity, and more. But to achieve this, we need to embed human rights in #AI by design, and invest in AI that puts rights first.

➡️ https://t.co/Y1X0mdyenr

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

the same AI that systemically discriminates women and girls.

[Ellie Reeves @elliereeves]

A huge honour to be officially sworn in as Solicitor General in the Royal Courts of Justice this morning.

From tackling violence against women and girls, using AI to modernise the justice system to ensuring diversity across the legal professions, I cannot wait to get started.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Spotify’s excesses — ghost artists, boring mood playlists, and AI — don’t indicate some evil inherent to streaming.

They stem from the major labels’ effective oligarchy over the music industry. https://t.co/D6K0M4A794

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

Kamīrīīthū was the opposite of this. The Kamīrīīthū practice was part of education as process of demystifying knowledge and hence reality. [3/3]”

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

#Ngūgī’s courage to decolonize mind, language, and culture will be long remembered:

“Education as a process of alienation produces a gallery of active stars and undifferentiated mass of grateful admirers. [1/3]

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

The Olympian gods of the Greek mythology or the dashing knights of the middle ages are reborn in the twentieth century as superstar politicians, scientists, sportsmen, actors, the handsome doers or heroes, with the ordinary people watching passively, gratefully, admiringly. [2/3]

[EADI @EADI]

"The politics embedded in #AI directly collide with the foundational humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence."

On our blog, @ronsalaj calls for collective human intelligence instead of artificial intelligence
https://t.co/IlibRdVKLf

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

From AI's 'efficient' automation to DOGE's meme-turned-speculation, tech's promise of liberation hides a sinister side. My latest piece for @VersoBooks on how the pursuit of #AI-driven efficiency fuels the rise of #TechnoFascism

https://t.co/vhsLYjY8yB

[ron salaj | @[email protected] @ronsalaj]

@danmcquillan NY Times’ response to Trump & Maga?
Abundance Agenda (E. Klein) & Waymo Democrats (https://t.co/MUEGkIHzen)

disgusting, but no surprising!

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#Italy: UN experts concerned by administrative enactment of problematic security bill, which includes provisions that are not aligned with international human rights law.

https://t.co/p2A9xwVwgY