Professor of political science. Author. Dad.
Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics.
Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
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It remains to be seen, but this might be a deeply flawed, tainted report given the committee's witness list skewed so heavily towards anti-MAID activists.
This strikes me as right. The bill has many features of both the 'good' and 'bad' of the UK Online Safety Act, *plus* things like the blatantly unconstitutional under 16 ban.
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
And the fact that it was chaired by two anti-MAID parliamentarians.
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Schertzer approaching 50 pitches in the 2ND INNING.
(Some) economists believe 'much higher workload' just = productivity, and those same economists seem to believe productivity is allllll that matters.
And of course the piece refers to studies that AI makes certain tasks quicker (and sometimes, allegedly, higher quality), but not all the studies that show how it actively harms skills development - not to mention the plagiarism, the environmental impacts, etc.
Never fails to amaze how often economists buy into certain things. No mention here of the *ethics* of Replacing writing, grading, supervising, research, etc. with AI. Just an assumption it will and SHOULD effective takeover these tasks. universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...
Reading the new Safe Social Media bill. From the perspective of my ongoing research project: FINALLY!
But the social media ban on under 16s is unconstitutional in multiple ways; an ineffective, privacy-violating mess.
And the conclusion isn't that universities should move more slowly on embracing this plagiarist monster that we know kills critical thinking, knowledge, and skills development - no, universities should move as FAST AS POSSIBLE to self-immolate.
That call is coming from inside the house, folks.
