Beautiful in its own way, but I’m glad I got outta there just before its full force hit
What is happening at MSG? Oh my.
Yes, and I’ll be more blunt: They are committing gross academic and pedagogical malpractice and are betraying the best ideals of scholarship and education. They should leave educating to actual educators and research to actual researchers.
Full piece. Love this. Yes, as chemist Mark Levin understands, real education has a “soul.” Thoughtlessly elcoming/conceding to GenAI isn’t just dehumanizing, it’s de-soul-ifying
A point I’d like to add on the administrator angle is that, where we find administrators who *are* taking any kind of stand to support AI resistance or even just AI caution, we should applaud, encourage, and support them in this. And offer our help. Thanks to any of you who are out there.
*Welcoming. Why does this seem to be so hard for some to understand: “LLMs are the cognitive equivalent of Homeric sirens. They promise productivity while subverting the process of grappling with ideas, and with overuse they weaken the very muscles necessary to use them responsibly”
Seen on my retreat. Narrow escape, the winds and rain when they hit were intense!
What?!
“…we should face this moment not by surrendering to the bots, but by showing the students what world-class education really looks like.”
Yes yes yes. And I love that this Chemistry prof also speaks up for humanities here.
It’s easy to be mainly adversarial in one’s attitude to higher ed admins (often for…reasons). But we need alliances with any who are sympathetic or open to persuasion. A leader at my inst expressed doubts about AI in lib arts education, and I wrote immediately to encourage him and offer my support.