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Prof. Dr Beth Singler

@bvlsingler.bsky.social

Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler

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Dr. Vaughn Joy@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · last wk.

What blows my mind with AI is the people who are like "how could you possibly function without it?" To which I say, "you, YOU literally did until what like 3 years ago? Did it degrade your brain that fast that you can't figure out how to do the thing you trained for years and earned a PhD to do?"

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

Mik Duffy.@mikduffy.bsky.social · 2w ago

In Britain, one can only become an optician after years of monastic study and spiritual reflection in an officially recognised Temple of Optometry. Opticians can only be formally ordained after taking a vow to abstain from knitwear,

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

James Bridle@jamesbridle.bsky.social · 2w ago

For Microsoft's new publication, The Humanist Review of AI, I wrote about living on what feels like a different planet to AI boosters, the friends I've made over there, and the fatal limits of what they call "humanism".

Screenshot of text reading: "In January, the undersea pipeline which brings water to our island failed for the second time. There are a few old boreholes on the island, but the water they pump up is contaminated with saltwater and household waste. We were advised not to drink the tapwater, or shower, or brush our teeth with it. Fifteen thousand people, in Europe, on a small island, surrounded by ocean, without access to mains water, for months. Reading, as I often do, about technological advances happening elsewhere, and promising so much, I sometimes feel like I live on a different planet entirely."Screenshot of text reading: "I am learning from the darkling beetle and the primrose, from the slime molds and the hyperaccumulators, how to be better at living in this world, how to be a part of its flow and its flourishing. This is more-than-humanist intelligence: it is embodied, relational and multiple, and it is ecologically beneficial, which means it is good for all of us, Lake Erie included. Any intelligence, artificial or otherwise, which acts in the opposite direction—which concentrates power and wealth, which demands ever greater amounts of scarce energy and water and requires the violent extraction of material from the earth, while degrading our natural, cognitive environment and our collective agency—is no intelligence worthy of the name."
Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 2w ago

"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...

Wharton researchers coined 'cognitive surrender' to describe what happens when people let AI think for them

A Wharton study found people accepted wrong AI answers 80% of the time, as apps like Moot now let five AI personas vote on your life decisions.

thenextweb.com

Elizabeth Gibney@lizziegibney.bsky.social · 3w ago

Kings Cross is increasingly awash with AI firms & London's taking a leading role in AI safety. But a caveat: it's mainly the kind of safety that cares about models from being used in cyberattacks or going rogue, not societal impacts like inequality or AI psychosis www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A global capital for AI safety is emerging — and it's not in Silicon Valley

The United Kingdom is gaining influence through its growing AI-safety ecosystem.

nature.com