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Daniel Little

@daniellittle.bsky.social

A/Prof in Psychological Sciences at The University of Melbourne. Studying Categorisation, Recognition, Scheduling Theory, Complex Decisions, Math Psych, SFT, Electric Bass, Loud Music. he/him

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Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran.com

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff.

As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to:

1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves.

2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer.

3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology.

4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.

November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM

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Dr Abeba Birhane

@abeba.bsky.social

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”

November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ

@olivia.science

Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.