Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it.
Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.
When Nova Red mining of Vancouver hired Kristi Noem was it to shoot dogs on their property?
This woman has no business dealing with any Canadian company or attempting to get her hands on Canadian resources.
Kick her butt back over the border.
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this has ways to turn off ai features and also resources for librarians pushing back
As studies show, those who don't understand 'AI' are more likely to adopt it, which explains why so many experts are opposed to it and why so many very AI-literate Canadians are refusing to adopt it.
Maybe the gov needs to listen to experts and Canadians instead of the AI industry?
The government has pushed through its motion to end debate on Bill C-22, forcing the committee into a late night hearing going on right now that no one will watch or can follow to pass the bill and send to the House. An absolute democratic embarrassment.
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Citizens can't have privacy for safety reasons...meanwhile Thiel has his secret society, Epstein file abusers walk around with impunity, a convicted WH felon openly cooks shady deals, trillionaire Musk kills scores of children, war crimes, genocide for all to see...but you must be surveilled.
'you establish the intentional falsehoods, the LLM poisons its training corpus by ingesting your information, and it then presents your falsehoods as fact.'
Exactly...and keep in mind these are corporate-owned chatbots.
Who could have guessed that deskilling machines would harm learning?
Governments & universities shilling for the AI industry should be ashamed.
Our bicostal allies - the Schools Beyond Screens LA group - have launched their own peititon for an AI moratorium! Let's help them get this done!
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The many problems with Mark Carney’s AI strategy for Canadians
disconnect.blog
"[If] an AI system can mimic human behavior and predict human performance on cognitive tasks, then human cognition must work more or less analogously to how the AI system works, right?"
Wrong!
Read full paper here 👇
Four Norms makes collective action possible for parents — with the tools, language, and support to push back on tech's influence and rebuild what childhood should be.
The current AI hype cycle combined with psychology’s various crises make for a perfect storm. Psychology, on the one hand, has a history of weak theoretical fou...
“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools
Michael Geist
The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org
Iris van Rooij 💭
Hypervisible
What a surprise …..
“Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
Mark Carney wants Canadians to become more “literate” on AI. But is a lack of understanding really why people are against it?
This week @hadrianmk.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to dig into the Canadian government’s AI strategy and its many blind spots.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/333_...
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Alison Macrina
For years, people have used social media to seed disinformation in order to swing elections. Now, the answers our search engines and expert systems produce have become more vulnerable. werd.io/by-the-prick...
For years, people have used social media to seed disinformation in order to swing elections. Now, the answers our search engines and expert systems produce have become more vulnerable.
