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ai Thinking - TLJamesA
Explore one educator's evolving perspective on generative AI in education, including concerns about copyright, fair use, industry demands, and the rush to adopt new technology. Features a curated list...
www.tljamesa.com
New post that tries to capture just a bit of my thinking on generative artificial intelligence at the moment. Thank you to all the folks I mention. You've helped a ton! #aieducation #noai #schoollibrary #tlchat www.tljamesa.com/index.php/20...
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“for the good of humanity” 🫠
these guys need to be shunned from society
these guys need to be shunned from society
“The Sam Altman-founded company behind the ‘Orb,’ a volleyball-sized metal sphere that scans irises to prove people's humanity, had a message for employees: work weekends and ignore anything outside your job — for the good of humanity.”
Sam Altman's eye-scanning Orb startup told workers not to care about anything outside work
Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania said that "if you should care about something else, and if you want something else, you should just not be here."
www.businessinsider.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“for the good of humanity” 🫠
these guys need to be shunned from society
these guys need to be shunned from society
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"New freedoms we can't even imagine today."
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
The first paragraph of OpenAI's new Teen AI Literacy Blueprint is *a lot* cdn.openai.com/pdf/openai-t...
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"New freedoms we can't even imagine today."
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
Call me crazy but I'd settle for preserving and protecting the non-imaginary freedoms being eradicated today.
Golden rule... not a bad rule. (adults need reminders too)
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Golden rule... not a bad rule. (adults need reminders too)
Excited for today! STLP Regionals (students across the state will present their school/community-centered technology projects today and get near-live feedback from educators across the state)
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Excited for today! STLP Regionals (students across the state will present their school/community-centered technology projects today and get near-live feedback from educators across the state)
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Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited.
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
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It's wild* how Pichai's takeaway from realizing his bubble's wobbling is "prop up AI!" & not "gosh why do we keep weaving speculative hype through fundamental systems to the almost sole benefit of the already-wealthy, & what does that say about our economic system?"
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's wild* how Pichai's takeaway from realizing his bubble's wobbling is "prop up AI!" & not "gosh why do we keep weaving speculative hype through fundamental systems to the almost sole benefit of the already-wealthy, & what does that say about our economic system?"
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
❌ A/I can’t replace real skills
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
❌ A/I can’t replace real skills
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is hurting the environment
✅ A/I is plagiaring creatives
✅ A/I is moderated by underpaid traumatized workers
✅ A/I can give you psychosis
🚫SAY NO TO GEN A/I🚫
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is hurting the environment
✅ A/I is plagiaring creatives
✅ A/I is moderated by underpaid traumatized workers
✅ A/I can give you psychosis
🚫SAY NO TO GEN A/I🚫
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
❌ A/I can’t replace real skills
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy
✅ A/I is behind layoffs
✅ A/I is being used by law enforcement and military
✅ people believe ai has knowledge
✅ A/I is being used for therapy
Saying no is enough?
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Future Ready Librarians 6th Annual App Smash webinar coming up on November 18, 2025 at 5:00pm EST.
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Future Ready Librarians 6th Annual App Smash webinar coming up on November 18, 2025 at 5:00pm EST.
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
Register all4ed.org/activity/202...
Will be recorded. I'm talking Kami - fab UDL engagement app.
#futurereadylibs #TLSky
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Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
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They're
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
They're
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
Angry
About
A
Book
About
A
Kitty
Who
Wants
Unicorn
Magic
That's it. That's the book.
"Parental rights" to revoke access to a playful, imaginative picture book about a KITTY CAT.
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Sad and alarming. Now for alternatives to “do evil” and use other platforms for “do no evil”
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Sad and alarming. Now for alternatives to “do evil” and use other platforms for “do no evil”
I’m embarrassed there was a point where I desired to be a Google “innovator”
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
In case you need a reason not to be a Google-certified educator:
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’m embarrassed there was a point where I desired to be a Google “innovator”
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?
Awesome shirt!
"The future is analog"
— Birchbark Books
I couldn't agree more! Thank you @addyvin.bsky.social for helping me get a hold of one of these tees from my favorite bookstore.
— Birchbark Books
I couldn't agree more! Thank you @addyvin.bsky.social for helping me get a hold of one of these tees from my favorite bookstore.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Awesome shirt!
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"ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No"
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...
ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No
It's a real
gizmodo.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No"
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...
"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."
This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.
#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
'"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize... we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.'
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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This is so good. A few choice quotes --
'AI is a "normal technology,"... But what we have come to see as "normal" is, in fact, utterly abhorrent, abysmal. Yiyun Li writes a lot in her book on learning to inhabit the abyss of grief. What does it mean to normalize the abyss?'
'AI is a "normal technology,"... But what we have come to see as "normal" is, in fact, utterly abhorrent, abysmal. Yiyun Li writes a lot in her book on learning to inhabit the abyss of grief. What does it mean to normalize the abyss?'
“AI is a backlash. AI is anti-worker.
I always feel the need to remind people that neither robots nor AI are coming for our jobs. But management probably is.”
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-obs...
I always feel the need to remind people that neither robots nor AI are coming for our jobs. But management probably is.”
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-obs...
AI Grief Observed
These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University.
"There is no good way to say this."
These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s l...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This is so good. A few choice quotes --
'AI is a "normal technology,"... But what we have come to see as "normal" is, in fact, utterly abhorrent, abysmal. Yiyun Li writes a lot in her book on learning to inhabit the abyss of grief. What does it mean to normalize the abyss?'
'AI is a "normal technology,"... But what we have come to see as "normal" is, in fact, utterly abhorrent, abysmal. Yiyun Li writes a lot in her book on learning to inhabit the abyss of grief. What does it mean to normalize the abyss?'
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i receive so many emails from fellow researchers working in the AI accountability space looking to collaborate, join my lab, etc… while i appreciate each effort in this space, i am not interested in any effort focused on:
1. helping users (this puts the onus on users) navigate existing systems
1/
1. helping users (this puts the onus on users) navigate existing systems
1/
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
i receive so many emails from fellow researchers working in the AI accountability space looking to collaborate, join my lab, etc… while i appreciate each effort in this space, i am not interested in any effort focused on:
1. helping users (this puts the onus on users) navigate existing systems
1/
1. helping users (this puts the onus on users) navigate existing systems
1/
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Just 2 hours 'til this tonight's #TLSkyChat, y'all... not that I'm counting or anything! Wanna start thinking about this week’s topic in advance? Check out tlskychat.com! See you at 8pmET/5pmPT! #Edusky #TLSky
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Just 2 hours 'til this tonight's #TLSkyChat, y'all... not that I'm counting or anything! Wanna start thinking about this week’s topic in advance? Check out tlskychat.com! See you at 8pmET/5pmPT! #Edusky #TLSky
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I'm seeing a lot of Gemini Certified Educators in my social media feeds. This is a good time to think critically about Gemini, how it is developed, and how it could impact (possibly harm) K-12 education. Be careful what you attach your name to.
www.criticalinkling.com/p/gemini-cer...
www.criticalinkling.com/p/gemini-cer...
Before You Become a Gemini Certified Educator
Be careful what you tie your name to.
www.criticalinkling.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I'm seeing a lot of Gemini Certified Educators in my social media feeds. This is a good time to think critically about Gemini, how it is developed, and how it could impact (possibly harm) K-12 education. Be careful what you attach your name to.
www.criticalinkling.com/p/gemini-cer...
www.criticalinkling.com/p/gemini-cer...
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"AI systems built to “flag” books are not neutral.
They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"AI systems built to “flag” books are not neutral.
They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve."
A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation.
aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
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To those sharing visuals (art, comics, photos, etc) that they didn't create themselves: please include credit/tag the HUMAN CREATOR.
Only share if you know that the person who created it won't mind. Don't just screenshot someone else's work to boost your own social media.
#PicturesMeanBusiness
Only share if you know that the person who created it won't mind. Don't just screenshot someone else's work to boost your own social media.
#PicturesMeanBusiness
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To those sharing visuals (art, comics, photos, etc) that they didn't create themselves: please include credit/tag the HUMAN CREATOR.
Only share if you know that the person who created it won't mind. Don't just screenshot someone else's work to boost your own social media.
#PicturesMeanBusiness
Only share if you know that the person who created it won't mind. Don't just screenshot someone else's work to boost your own social media.
#PicturesMeanBusiness
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This piece by @shiraovide.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com examines the Q: why are people so pessimistic about AI?
But there’s no exploration of perhaps the biggest reason—it’s a tool that enriches the worst people in society & drowns truth (& accountability) in irrelevance.
Strip mines our souls
But there’s no exploration of perhaps the biggest reason—it’s a tool that enriches the worst people in society & drowns truth (& accountability) in irrelevance.
Strip mines our souls
Analysis | Americans have become more pessimistic about AI. Why?
Four theories to explain the surveys that keep showing sour public opinion about AI.
wapo.st
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This piece by @shiraovide.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com examines the Q: why are people so pessimistic about AI?
But there’s no exploration of perhaps the biggest reason—it’s a tool that enriches the worst people in society & drowns truth (& accountability) in irrelevance.
Strip mines our souls
But there’s no exploration of perhaps the biggest reason—it’s a tool that enriches the worst people in society & drowns truth (& accountability) in irrelevance.
Strip mines our souls