Daniela Tafani

E' stato pubblicato, ad accesso aperto, il mio libro Dieci miti sull'intelligenza artificiale. Un progetto reazionario e le sue storie: libri.unimi.it/index.php/mi... @marioricciardi.bsky.social @mariuzzoandrea.bsky.social @barbarafantechi.bsky.social @aeporreca.org

The report “Preserving Our Humanity, Supporting Our Students: Doctoral Advising in Mathematics” by the Teaching Working Group of the Association for Human Mathematics #AHM just dropped! Spread it far and wide! 🫳📄 www.ahmath.org/doctoraladvi...

if you do not want to use youtube you can access them of course through an invidious instance — here you go as an example: inv.nadeko.net/playlist?lis...

Jean-Baptiste Cadart of #AHM is launching a new seminar on Ethics in Mathematics and Science. The 1st talk is Vladimir Lazić, “Where I stand on AI” (spoiler: at a safe distance! 😊 www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...) on Thu 29, 9–10:30 a.m. UTC+2 (Paris Time), videoconference link on the website👇.

Another example of #OpenAI lying for its IPO, like #AGI #AILaunch etc. "OpenAI said it led a coalition of researchers that discovered the flaw and claimed “frontier AI” had been key. The researchers who found the weakness, however, said they used models available to the public."

Note: these are mathematicians destroying mathematics while using AI. Yes, I know the pressure on those untenured, but if the tenured continued as before the pressure wouldn't be so bad. E INVECE 😭😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

I don’t actually understand what Terence Tao says or wants here. The sentence you quote is preceded by “Problem solving is not a destination but a journey, and lessons learned along the way are often more important than the answer itself”, which seems to me in direct contradiction with it. 🤷‍♂️

"Rather than solving a single problem on their own, they can use A.I. to solve 10 problems and find new patterns and more questions to ask." @aeporreca.org @barbarafantechi.bsky.social Is he saying that the way to clean up an oil spill from an oil tanker is “more of the same”? archive.ph/bid95

Leggete Daniela Tafani. 👇 “i miti sull’intelligenza artificiale giustificano, e così proteggono, un’oligarchia e il suo progetto politico reazionario e autoritario, volto a concentrare ulteriormente il potere e a mascherare da innovazione tecnologica il trasferimento di risorse”

Oh oui. Diffondo sulla fiducia e finisce diretto in cima alla lista di cose da leggere.

The math dump’s main “purpose is to produce an effect of propaganda and stupefaction, relying on scientific illiteracy and on its uncritical amplification by the media echo chamber. To produce its propaganda effect, it erases…hundreds of researchers…” europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-spectacl...

As a mathematician who has published papers for 35+ years, I know that at the core of mathematics is not "problems being solved", that all of the dumped worked is terribly written and shamelessly lacking in references, and that part of it definitely wrong.

We propose an alternative approach for resisting AI hype: contestation: disorganizing institutional alignment around AI & building collective power to pursue alternative futures. We suggest tactics that AI opponents can use to undermine hypers' legitimacy + build collective political agency.

it’s just great marketing

“If the programs cannot be trusted to work within the law, the companies should not release them. If the programs break the law, the companies should face the consequences” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

ADHD is disabling & esp so for us who can't take meds. On this, there's something a bit upsetting when people insist it's a superpower *just* because they are impressed by the output. Do they see us as a machine or a chatbot which has value because of the nature of the output? Feels dehumanising.

why would you want the robot in the shower with you

"BREAKING: OpenAI’s solution to Navier–Stokes does not match its Lean verification." Valerio Capraro Associate Professor at Uni Milan-Bicocca. #LeanLang gitlab.utfpr.edu.br/-/snippets/18

Vogliamo far notare che non tutti a matematici dei Lincei hanno firmato la lettera, e in particolare non tutte le matematiche? Io non posso passare la giornata a litigare coi pensionati per email "potremmo fare un discord" "mai sentito dire"

Someone at AHM pointed out this paper which seems to cast doubt on the validity of the statement proved by the OpenAI Navier-Stokes paper. Too tired to read it, but here it is. arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144

every branch of right-wing pseudo-intellectualism is named something like "super-rational objective humanist altruism" and then you look at what they believe and it's some variant of "corporations should legally be able to murder kids"

JAIL THEM

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do

honestly lost so much respect for so much left media over the past few weeks seeing how eagerly they’ve jumped on sensationalist bullshit claims from tech industry cultists. not calling out the nation specifically; they’re basically all at it.

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.

Imagine replacing people with tokens for plagiarism slot machines. This is why I take the extreme position that LLM-fuelled papers are not research, should not be read or cited, and should definitely count in one’s CV, but negatively.

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oh look, it is brainlike! Must be intelligent 🤔

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

“The AI doomsday rhetoric not only helps the tech industry, it allows media outlets to chase clicks without actually challenging wealth and power.” 🎯

👀 OpenAI’s A.I. Tried to Breach 4 Other Targets, Without Prompting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...

...and at the end of it John Henry is like 'well, it felt kind of efficient using two hammers but I’m not sure what the point was.'" -Rusty Foster, Today in Tabs www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new...

I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.

Every time one of these companies rolls out a new "amazing" "AI" feature, it turns out to just be howevermany exploited humans in a trenchcoat. Every fucking time.

New depiction just dropped 🙃 mu.social/profile/ethi...

All we can expect when trying to scale up AI systems is diminishing returns and devastating environmental damage. Calls for `slowing down’ can conveniently hide the diminishing returns, while still convincing people that the tech is “all powerful”.

Fantastic thread. @olivia.science and others do a wonderful job of supporting your arguments here, including dismantling the mythos implied by the 'black box' zenodo.org/records/2007...

I don’t work on stuff suitable for STOC, but let me say that the 2027 edition LLM policy of one of the (former, AFAIC) “top” TCS conferences is pure shit, and I certainly don’t regret not being part of a community actively working on destroying science from the inside. Shame, shame, shame on you.

"Un résultat sans chemin" Comme le dit @mcpbsk.bsky.social, appeler un taxi pour se rendre à l'arrivée d'un marathon, c'est ne pas avoir compris ce qu'est un marathon. @aeporreca.org

"AI companies will inevitably face a large number of lawsuits as their products become more ingrained… When the legal wrangling begins, the industry’s extravagant (and strangely lighthearted) talk about the chance their agents could bring about human extinction won’t play well in court." #aiethics

Not liking either the Leiden Declaration (weak), nor the high nobility statement (extremely weak for so-called “leaders” as well as hypocritical, Tao having been a strong and naive proponent of AI til 10 minutes ago), I suggest ahmath.org, which actually includes the crazy option of not using AI.

To re-phrase the declaration: generating experimental findings in psychology is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in a world of advanced methodological tools may turn the tools against the primary goal.

"Feynman, commenting on how managerial and marketing decisions overrode engineering recommendations, leading to an avoidable calamity, stated that “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.""