I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread:

This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +

My tiny thread yesterday is now a whole op-ed! A quick read, connecting Pope Leo's apology for colonialism and slavery to his warnings about AI — it's all related. Working with editor @mpgphd.bsky.social was an absolutely pleasure!

“The English we were taught was not the fluid, evolving language of modern-day London or California, filled with slang and convenient abbreviations. It was the Queen's English, the language of the colonial administrator, the missionary, the headmaster.” marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

This is the bit that stood out to me in this very moving, thought-provoking post—“The level of discomfort or not-knowing that students can tolerate has taken (another) drastic free fall…AI has made everything so smooth, so easy, that it’s harder for them to stomach that discomfort”