I just signed a petition calling for Norwegian universities to use research expertise on AI when deciding how to implement it, rather than having decisions be made mostly administratively. , If you are a researcher in Norway, please read it and sign it if you agree – and share with anyone else who might be interested. The petition was written by three researchers at UiT: Maria Danielsen […]
Grammarly is a full on AI plagiarism machine now, generating text, citations (often irrelevant), “humanizing” the text to avoid AI checkers and so on. If you’re an author or scholar, they also have been impersonating and offering “feedback” in your name. Until yesterday, when they discontinued the Expert Review feature due to a class action lawsuit. Here are screenshots of how it worked.
A summary of yesterday’s Critical AI Theory Reading Group discussion of Ryan Heuser’s article about LLM-generated poetry, with a discussion of whether LLMs normalise or idealise their training data.
The first session of the new Critical AI Theory Reading Group was great! We discussed Coeckelbergh’s new paper on technofascism.
There are so many interesting critical theory essays coming out about AI these days and I want to discuss them with people. So I’m proposing a reading group, small and informal, bring your own lunch, some Tuesdays this semester from 12:00-13:00 in […]
A list of Norwegian researchers who are experts on AI, worklife, ethics and the public sector that journalists could interview next time they write about AI.
I’m developing a larp where participants play guests at one of Charles Babbage’s Saturday night soirées in the 1840s. Here’s a sneak peak – I hope to publish the materials later this spring.
Readers who don’t read Norwegian: sorry. This is in Norwegian because it is commenting on a current debate in Norwegian media. Asle Tojes debattinnlegg «får KI-alarmen til å gå,» skriver Petter Bae Brandtzæg, og jeg er enig. Toje sier riktignok nei, han har ikke brukt […]
I spent Wednesday evening at the famous Studentersamfundet in Trondheim, debating AI with three Norwegian members of parliament, Karianne Tung, who is Norway’s Minister for Digitization, Simen Velle, a representative for FrP, and Hege Bae Nylund, a representative for Rødt. The debate […]
I’m in Australia! Hooray! My mum and dad and sister and I moved from Perth to Bergen when I was a kid, and ever since I’ve loved two homes: Australia and Norway. Walking off the plane last night and breathing in the […]