Yes: "Our first principle should be to work on making student learning visible to students themselves," writes @biblioracle.bsky.social. This is something we need to be talking about more in this moment when it's so easy for students to simulate learning. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.
“Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hey, I got a new starter pack for ya!
Big Nope to "A.i.," Data Centers, & Big Tech
A work in progress chock full of people & groups providing info about and organizing against the pernicious effects of "A.i." and its pushers.
go.bsky.app/3w9a45V
I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.
This is great and also if you are a faculty member, just touch base with your Accessibility Centre and ask if you can have access to the recommended screen reader on your campus and TEST YOUR COURSE MATERIALS. It is always eye-opening and it will make you better able to help students who need it.
Check this out from the wonderful @aelang.bsky.social
this may well be the defining joke of our era
theonion.com/guy-who-suck...
In fact, the speaker admitted to "working very closely with Claude", to the point where he's currently "writing" a book entirely written by AI. People in the amphitheater gasped. The speaker - a scholar from France - then shared that his "experiment" has led him to feel useless as an intellectual.