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cloudquistador.bsky.social
This is indeed for people in the Netherlands (of which, I'm one) to sign *however* I encourage everyone to study and adapt the points made to and for your location. There's lots of hand wringing and analysis but as a hard materialist I always elevate clear eyed response. This is that.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d
If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:

"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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olivia.science
Useful context: bsky.app/profile/lekk...
lekkerresistance.bsky.social Cristina Zaga -Resisting and Reimagining AI @lekkerresistance.bsky.social · 18d
Yesterday, the AI Plan was published in the Netherlands, primarily from a corporate perspective. I want to propose a critical alternative, it is yet again a technology push without including the perspective of society at large. It does not include any critical AI literature and practice
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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olivia.science
If you're based in NL please consider reading & signing our open letter on reclaiming so-called AI from the AI Delta Plan & co:

"Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future" openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Big thanks to @lekkerresistance.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @marentierra.bsky.social
Thoughtfully Shaping Our Digital Future To the parties forming the government in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the outgoing administration, We are writing to you in recognition of your crucial responsibility for shaping current and future AI policy, overseeing digitization, and upholding public values. We are a coalition of scientists, experts, and representatives of civil society organizations. We believe it is essential to address these matters together. This letter has two objectives: a) Provide context for current plans, including the AI Delta Plan, the AIC4NL position paper, and the Invest-NL AI Deep Dive. These investment proposals often rely on assumptions that lack scientific evidence and do not fully reflect public values. b) To offer a constructive, well-substantiated alternative approach to digital futures based on people, nature, and democracy. We believe a collaborative process should guide decisions on the needs, scope, and nature of investments by bringing together scientists, civil society organizations, and stakeholders.
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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birgittaj.bsky.social
Pure excellence.
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 6d
📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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igure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., & van Rooij, I. (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... ✨

Thread with my favourite quotes 👇

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igure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“Formal results like this ironically show that solid computational thinking — taking computationalism seriously (Guest and Martin 2025b;
Guest, Scharfenberg, et al. 2025) — undercuts AI misinformation.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies (CAILs) is the collection of ways of thinking about and relating to so-called artificial intelligence (AI) that rejects dominant frames presented by the tec...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

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Table 1 Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.
May 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."

openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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johndoffing.bsky.social
“Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world . . . "

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December 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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johndoffing.bsky.social
“Conceptual clarity is the idea that terms should refer . . . "

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December 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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kbneal.bsky.social
"AI cannot be allowed to drive change, even positive change, in education or research. Instead cultivation of and adherence to shared values and goals must guide us."
❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 6d
Dimension 2:

CRITICAL THINKING 🤔

“Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world.”

Guest, Suarez, & van Rooij (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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December 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“We propose in research and educational settings, CAILs can take shape along different dimensions (see Figure 1), which serve as basic values for us, when we perform our academic duties, and to share with our students.”— @olivia.science et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1778...

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Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
Besides an opportunity to list out all the terms/quotes I've been collecting, this third Zine volume highlights all the hard work around Critical AI Literacies that @olivia.science and colleagues have been doing, including the brand new paper "Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies (CAILs) is the collection of ways of thinking about and relating to so-called artificial intelligence (AI) that rejects dominant frames presented by the tec...
doi.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
I hope you explore the Zine for yourself to see the other references included and enjoy the previous volumes too if you've just found my Padlet.

Happy reading!
AI Sucks And You Should Not Use It
Collected resources covering many different reasons why AI is terrible. Scans and text for the following: Zine v1.1 "Why Generative AI Sucks And You Should Not Use It" (June 2025) and Zine v2.0 "Human...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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olivia.science
I love zines so much and I'm especially honoured @cgsunit.bsky.social quoted me @marentierra.bsky.social and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social in this one. It's such great work! 🤩

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December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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altibel.bsky.social
Een paar foto's van de demo. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥
Een band spelend tijdens de mars Een protestboord: where to spend 1 billion €, book no bombs Een AOB hond in een backpack Een protestboord: Invest in scholarship, divest from scholasticide
December 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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olivia.science
That's us! Please keep signing: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

More here: olivia.science/ai#activism
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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altibel.bsky.social
#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥 Waarom gaan we opnieuw staken? Het kabinet Schoof heeft €1,4 miljard bezuinigd op onderwijs. Tijdens de formatie wordt erover beslist. Er is kans op herstel, maar hoger onderwijs kan ook zomaar als ‘pinautomaat’ worden gebruikt voor defensie-investeringen 😣
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“Women who think critically are always labeled difficult because it saves the world from admitting they’re right” — bell hooks

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Picture accompanying a post from Linked in by Charmaine Simpson https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blackhistorystudies_bell-hooks-understood-a-pattern-that-repeats-activity-7403886502771888128-CJiy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAFk0BcBSukv5EZ8IStyE-ugz6Io2JLp0iQ "bell hooks understood a pattern that repeats across generations. When a woman thinks critically, people often label her difficult before they ever engage with her ideas. The label is a shortcut. A way to dismiss her without confronting what she is actually saying. Critical thinking is powerful because it interrupts comfort. It asks why things are the way they are. It exposes contradictions that many would rather leave unspoken. So instead of addressing her insight, the world questions her tone. It reframes her clarity as attitude. It turns her precision into a flaw. But women who think critically are not difficult. They are necessary. They hold up mirrors that others avoid. They name truths that would otherwise stay buried. To think for yourself is not an invitation for conflict. It is an act of presence. It is choosing awareness over silence. And every time a woman refuses to apologize for her mind, she shifts the world a little closer to honesty. From Her Archives "
December 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“a fundamental aspect [of CAILs] is the assertion that AI cannot be allowed to drive change, even positive change, in education or research. Instead cultivation of and adherence to shared values and goals must guide us.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1778...

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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies (CAILs) is the collection of ways of thinking about and relating to so-called artificial intelligence (AI) that rejects dominant frames presented by the tec...
zenodo.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“[Critical thinking is a] vital skill under rising fascism, planetary crises, and the onslaught of technosolutionism.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies (CAILs) is the collection of ways of thinking about and relating to so-called artificial intelligence (AI) that rejects dominant frames presented by the tec...
doi.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“[Critical thinking is a] vital skill under rising fascism, planetary crises, and the onslaught of technosolutionism.” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies (CAILs) is the collection of ways of thinking about and relating to so-called artificial intelligence (AI) that rejects dominant frames presented by the tec...
doi.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Dimension 1:

CONCEPTUAL CLARITY 🔍

“Conceptual clarity is the idea that terms should refer”

— Guest, Suarez, & van Rooij (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Dimension 2:

CRITICAL THINKING 🤔

“Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world.”

Guest, Suarez, & van Rooij (2025). Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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a square with a small square in the middle and the words critical thinking written above it
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December 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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footypol.bsky.social
This is what we need. A way of talking about AI literacy that centres critical thinking!!!
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12d
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM