Macaulay OpenLab | John Muccino | Activity https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/members/johnmuccino/activity/ Activity feed for John Muccino. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:27:04 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 0e0f5a2c8ea1a201297ac34b626c0515 John Muccino replied to the topic Events in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/events/#post-797 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:43:11 -0400 https://cal.red/?event=4952

This is tonight, a conversation and Q&A with State Assemblymember Alex Bores who is running for Congress in NY-12. He used to work for Palintir and his campaign has sustained intense opposition from AI and Big Tech lobbying groups because he believes in regulation. From Wikipedia describing the current congressional…[Read more]

]]> d503b5bddd8e97fa3f4d80fced9a6f84 John Muccino started the topic Events in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/events/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:36:51 -0400 Just starting a thread here where we can post events we may hear about locally that are related to our research!

]]> 0762e483694cc57fe00cd71f813be0ee John Muccino replied to the topic AI in the News! in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/ai-in-the-news/#post-762 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:13:27 -0400 EVERYONE READ

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-plans-new-ai-focused-school-as-rules-for-the-tech-are-delayed

I feel compelled to attend the public hearing /teleconference in April. I think we all should consider going and being a part of this conversation because it doesn’t really sound like there’s much of a plan here and hopefully the people who…[Read more]

]]> eef20e7c096e177853dfd6020d945d50 John Muccino replied to the topic AI in the News! in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/ai-in-the-news/#post-759 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:32:10 -0400 https://apnews.com/article/google-maps-ai-gemini-update-1933c40eaecfdbb9aa54d8ae3efcec2e

Am I wrong in thinking that we are creating a generation of people who have no awareness of where they at any given moment and cannot navigate their surroundings without being given explicit instructions by Google which will now implement AI into its routes…[Read more]

]]> 7100661f40d33b2e388d89c0cc8958b3 John Muccino replied to the topic AI in the News! in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/ai-in-the-news/#post-754 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:50:48 -0500 https://www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026/03/opinion-why-new-york-must-ban-surveillance-pricing/411895/?oref=csny-homepage-river

“…A recent study by Consumer Reports and The Groundwork Collaborative found that Instacart’s AI-enabled pricing schemes are inflating grocery bills by as much as 23%. In January 2025, the Federal Trade Co…[Read more]

]]> 6b9873175acf34eb73ee5e1b2d1fd715 John Muccino replied to the topic Critical Thinking in the Age of AI in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/critical-thinking-in-the-age-of-ai/#post-750 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:59:41 -0500 What a joke, please watch this and tell me if I am crazy or not. This guy is a PhD researcher at MIT and thinks this is a groundbreaking use for AI technology that will advance humanity. I don’t need a ‘wearable reasoner’ to tell me that his claim “we believe this will foster independent critical thinking in the future” is vague and…[Read more]

]]> ea2732ebd15c397ebfe1aebc9cfd99af John Muccino replied to the topic Critical Thinking in the Age of AI in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/critical-thinking-in-the-age-of-ai/#post-747 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:14:44 -0500 BOOOOO to that webinar, sorry but this just seems like such an unnecessary use of AI that will just end up making people LESS capable of thinking for themselves. waste of all that primo energy for the data centers. AHA should be A(HA). They are talking about Advancing Humans-with-AI, not Advancing Humans with AI.

And that was such a bad analogy…[Read more]

]]> 440f250f8749f1e7cc231a2a43e379ed John Muccino replied to the topic Critical Thinking in the Age of AI in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/critical-thinking-in-the-age-of-ai/#post-746 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:51:41 -0500 I’ll be tuning in to that Webinar!

]]> fcdb73194d494f41923642f0ae70470e John Muccino replied to the topic AI in the News! in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/ai-in-the-news/#post-726 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:08:22 -0500 AI headsets as a “coaching tool” for Burger King

So it will provide recipes to employees, alert when inventory is low, when a customer reports a messy bathroom, ALL of which are tasks for which AI seems like complete overkill, but it will ALSO be listening to every word an employee might say looking for indicators of “friendliness” like “thank…[Read more]

]]> 25b569a040e672748f8638314b5ef0d7 John Muccino replied to the topic What Is AI, and Why Does It Matter? in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/what-is-ai-and-why-does-it-matter/#post-725 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:45:32 -0500 Here’s another great video about how diffusion works in generative AI (also 3b1b but a guest presenter from another great channel Welch Labs)

]]> b64d32ec22e02d09478f2a1166cf8814 John Muccino replied to the topic What Is AI, and Why Does It Matter? in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/what-is-ai-and-why-does-it-matter/#post-722 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:28:16 -0500 I just wanted to share another resource for anyone interested in understanding the mechanics of LLMs more deeply, and neural networks in general. To be honest I thought the Medium article “A Very Gentle Introduction…” was good, but clunky in parts and a bit unintuitive. If anyone is familiar with the YouTube account 3blue1brown run by Grant…[Read more]

]]> ea8d42d63fc0f4b6f2ad65260051e30e John Muccino replied to the topic Introduce Yourself! in the forum Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/groups/cali-mhc/forum/topic/introduce-yourself/#post-700 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:37:09 -0500 Hi! My name is John Muccino and I am currently an Engineering Science major at BMCC in my sophomore year. This Fall I will matriculate to CCNY to complete a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. I’m so excited to be a part of this group and to process some of my really strong feelings regarding AI and hopefully contribute something of real value to the…[Read more]

]]> d1cc2420f81348bb0da924bb391f99e6 John Muccino joined the group Critical AI Literacy @ Macaulay https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/activity/p/11554/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:01:50 -0500 0 92d68da7f6e49db69ab5da6a48b7e041 John Muccino became a registered member https://openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu/activity/p/322/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:18:19 -0400 0