AI Stickers
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Robbie Fordyce
23 May 2025
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On some stickers that I made for my students
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- Overview
0X. References
01. Overview
From February to May 2025 I taught the unit Working with Artificial Intelligence, which was a pretty enjoyable experience overall, despite a few minor hurdles. Due to other commitments, I’m not going to be as focused on teaching it in 2026 although I’ll still have some connection to the unit -- probably lectures and some unit coordination.
As a fun little exercise for myself, I made up a bunch of sticker designs that speak to different parts of the unit. They’re deliberately on the more entertaining side of interpretations of the scholarship, but hopefully in this they remain at least somewhat ‘fun’ for the students. I’d like it to be a positive and memorable experience for those involved.
I’ve requested a print run of the stickers -- only about 50 sheets as they’re expensive enough and I’m paying for these myself -- but still, something that I hope the students will enjoy. You’ll find the PDF version of the stickers here.
02. Stickers
I’ve noted the individual stickers below, with a little bit of detail on what each one refers to.
Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021). On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Doctorow, C. (2022, November 17). Social Quitting. Medium. https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456
Doctorow, C. (2024, January 30). My McLuhan lecture on enshittification. Medium. https://doctorow.medium.com/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-ea343342b9bc
Hawking, S., Russell, S., Tegmark, M., & Wilczek, F. (2014, May 1). Are we taking Artificial Intelligence seriously? The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-transcendence-looks-at-the-implications-of-artificial-intelligence-but-are-we-taking-ai-seriously-enough-9313474.html
Hayles, N. K. (1999). How we became posthuman: Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. University of Chicago Press.
Keyes, O., Hutson, J., & Durbin, M. (2019). A Mulching Proposal (No. arXiv:1908.06166). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1908.06166
Smith, H., & Adams, C. (2024). Report: Thinking about using AI? - Green Web Foundation. https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/publications/report-ai-environmental-impact/
Stiegler, B. (2016). Automatic society. Polity Press.