Dr Kobotic
@kobotic.bsky.social
Doing AI management and governance for a long time (way before it was cool), container ships, democracy and dachshunds. Sometimes sailing. www.kobileins.com
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Some thoughts on The AI Con and a conversation between @emilymbender.bsky.social and @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT last week: pivotnine.com/blog/musings...
Musings on The AI Con
Reflections after heading Prof Emily M. Bender and Dr Kobi Leins speak on The AI Con, on 1 July 2025.
pivotnine.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Some thoughts on The AI Con and a conversation between @emilymbender.bsky.social and @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT last week: pivotnine.com/blog/musings...
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In early July, I had the opporunity to discuss The AI Con with @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT. ABC is presenting part of that conversation in their programme "Big Ideas" on Tuesday Sept 2:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine - ABC listen
Is the world really in the midst of an AI revolution, or is it all just clever marketing, powered by immense amounts of money, capital and hype? This episode arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises...
www.abc.net.au
August 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In early July, I had the opporunity to discuss The AI Con with @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT. ABC is presenting part of that conversation in their programme "Big Ideas" on Tuesday Sept 2:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/13/o... - text
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250813-kob... - podcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutS... - video
fucking Kobi Leins around is absolutely going to go 0% well for these fuckers
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/13/o... - text
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250813-kob... - podcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutS... - video
fucking Kobi Leins around is absolutely going to go 0% well for these fuckers
‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor
Australian AI ethics lawyer Kobi Leins took her child to a medical specialist. The specialist asked to use an AI transcription system for the appointment. Leins had actually reviewed this particula…
pivot-to-ai.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/13/o... - text
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250813-kob... - podcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutS... - video
fucking Kobi Leins around is absolutely going to go 0% well for these fuckers
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/13/o... - text
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250813-kob... - podcast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutS... - video
fucking Kobi Leins around is absolutely going to go 0% well for these fuckers
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In #Melbourne? Fan of @emilymbender.bsky.social?
In conversation with Dr @kobotic.bsky.social Tues 1st July, Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT, discussing her book written with Dr @alexhanna.bsky.social #TheAICon.
Learn how to cut through the #AI hype
www.readings.com.au/events/emily...
In conversation with Dr @kobotic.bsky.social Tues 1st July, Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT, discussing her book written with Dr @alexhanna.bsky.social #TheAICon.
Learn how to cut through the #AI hype
www.readings.com.au/events/emily...
Emily M. Bender and Kobi Leins discuss AI
Supported by RMIT Join us for a riveting conversation between Dr Kobi Leins and Professor Emily M. Bender. Packed with real-world examples, pithy arguments and expert insights, Professor Emily M. Be...
www.readings.com.au
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In #Melbourne? Fan of @emilymbender.bsky.social?
In conversation with Dr @kobotic.bsky.social Tues 1st July, Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT, discussing her book written with Dr @alexhanna.bsky.social #TheAICon.
Learn how to cut through the #AI hype
www.readings.com.au/events/emily...
In conversation with Dr @kobotic.bsky.social Tues 1st July, Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT, discussing her book written with Dr @alexhanna.bsky.social #TheAICon.
Learn how to cut through the #AI hype
www.readings.com.au/events/emily...
The song in the comments. I just can't...
Stand aside Turing, we now have The Potato Test.
this is such an interesting time to be alive. we concreted the internet as our second equal and primary reality but it's full of ghosts now
we try to talk to them and they pass right through
it's a haunted world of dead things who look real but don't really see us
we try to talk to them and they pass right through
it's a haunted world of dead things who look real but don't really see us
May 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The song in the comments. I just can't...
Just hanging out with and getting to know my incredible new work commissioned a while back by @annascheen.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just hanging out with and getting to know my incredible new work commissioned a while back by @annascheen.bsky.social
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Denmark has donated 19 of the F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and now Trump has ordered an end to US support for their onboard jamming equipment, thereby helping Putin destroy this USD 291,000,000 donation.
This US administration is an enemy of Europe.
news.online.ua/en/the-us-is...
This US administration is an enemy of Europe.
news.online.ua/en/the-us-is...
The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out — online.ua
US President Donald Trump's team has ordered the termination of vital support for F-16 fighter jet jamming equipment that Ukraine has. What is important to understand is that this could deprive the Uk...
news.online.ua
March 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Denmark has donated 19 of the F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and now Trump has ordered an end to US support for their onboard jamming equipment, thereby helping Putin destroy this USD 291,000,000 donation.
This US administration is an enemy of Europe.
news.online.ua/en/the-us-is...
This US administration is an enemy of Europe.
news.online.ua/en/the-us-is...
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
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I hate this so much because it reinforces #AccentBias. It's like people of darker skin tones trying to bleach their skin whiter because light skin is valourised. Certain accents carry higher social status - white, Western accents.
This is a form of cultural erasure.
This is a form of cultural erasure.
March 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I hate this so much because it reinforces #AccentBias. It's like people of darker skin tones trying to bleach their skin whiter because light skin is valourised. Certain accents carry higher social status - white, Western accents.
This is a form of cultural erasure.
This is a form of cultural erasure.
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Sign it now people! Petition EN7139 - Australian sovereignty from the United States
Petition Status —The petition is currently open for signatures
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Petition Status —The petition is currently open for signatures
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
e-petitions
e-petitions
www.aph.gov.au
March 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Sign it now people! Petition EN7139 - Australian sovereignty from the United States
Petition Status —The petition is currently open for signatures
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Petition Status —The petition is currently open for signatures
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
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Genea posted an update to its website stating it has been granted an interim injunction in the NSW Supreme Court to prevent "any access, use, dissemination or publication of the impacted data by the threat actor and/or any third party who receives the stolen dataset amp.abc.net.au/article/1049...
Patient information posted on dark web after cyber attack on IVF company Genea - ABC News
amp.abc.net.au
February 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Genea posted an update to its website stating it has been granted an interim injunction in the NSW Supreme Court to prevent "any access, use, dissemination or publication of the impacted data by the threat actor and/or any third party who receives the stolen dataset amp.abc.net.au/article/1049...
Someone has mapped long-termer/existential risk money:
'By investing half a billion dollars, Effective Altruism has built a thriving ecosystem around the “AI Existential Risk” (human extinction from AI) ideology.'
www.aipanic.news/p/panic-as-a...
H/t @Nancy Connell
'By investing half a billion dollars, Effective Altruism has built a thriving ecosystem around the “AI Existential Risk” (human extinction from AI) ideology.'
www.aipanic.news/p/panic-as-a...
H/t @Nancy Connell
Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding
An update to the “Ultimate Guide to ‘AI Existential Risk’ Ecosystem”
www.aipanic.news
February 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Someone has mapped long-termer/existential risk money:
'By investing half a billion dollars, Effective Altruism has built a thriving ecosystem around the “AI Existential Risk” (human extinction from AI) ideology.'
www.aipanic.news/p/panic-as-a...
H/t @Nancy Connell
'By investing half a billion dollars, Effective Altruism has built a thriving ecosystem around the “AI Existential Risk” (human extinction from AI) ideology.'
www.aipanic.news/p/panic-as-a...
H/t @Nancy Connell
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"For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI’s tendencies towards epistemic, structural & administrative violence are not flaws but features. The disruptive potential of AI will become entangled with the more savage disruptions of a fascistic social vision." Resisting AI, p97
February 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI’s tendencies towards epistemic, structural & administrative violence are not flaws but features. The disruptive potential of AI will become entangled with the more savage disruptions of a fascistic social vision." Resisting AI, p97
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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD
ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
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Here’s a MrMaxi pic. Look at that little good boy snoozling.
February 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Here’s a MrMaxi pic. Look at that little good boy snoozling.
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Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...
Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger | Computer Weekly
Russia-backed hacking groups have developed techniques to compromise encrypted messaging services, including Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram, placing journalists, politicians, and activists of interest ...
www.computerweekly.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194...