While we worry about AI replacing human judgment, the real story may be how AI is creating a market for that judgment as a luxury good hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

Is there a better way to encourage intellectual engagement on campus than eliciting personal opinions from students? Yes. Smaller classes. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Why I am against the new crop of civic discourse platforms. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/none-of-yo...

AI tools are being used to track and identify every single person inside the U.S. borders. Whether you agree that this is a good thing or not, it is happening while hundreds of thousands are huddled under quilts with cocoa watching Only Murders in the Building. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

AI tools are being used to track and identify every single person inside the U.S. borders. Whether you agree that this is a good thing or not, it is happening while hundreds of thousands are huddled under quilts with cocoa watching Only Murders in the Building. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

I love Dept Q — recommend. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

Very very little is known about the quality of teaching on college campuses. And everyone wants to keep it that way. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/teaching-q...

Very very little is known about the quality of teaching on college campuses. And everyone wants to keep it that way. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/teaching-q...

Well worth listening to. Will AI crush higher education? Jimmy Alfonso Licon / The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast @anecdotal.bsky.social & @bryan_caplan substack.com/home/post/p-...

Fascism has no poetry. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social I quote your excellent book here. www.chronicle.com/article/coll...

Form and State Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social hardly needs my help, but I love her take on poetic forms. I plan to use this article in one of my classes next semester. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

Online asynchronous education is not going to survive the AI era. Colleges and universities that double down on small classes, expertise, and real mentorship will be the ones that flourish. www.chronicle.com/article/coll...

This Thanksgiving I am grateful for silos and you should be too. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

Embrace the "I" for a whole month. Be like Carol. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/a-we-free-...

I know several people teaching here this summer...

Embrace the "I" for a whole month. Be like Carol. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/a-we-free-...

Are we at that sea change moment with AI and the Humanities? Read @anecdotal.bsky.social

I'd copy @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social but he blocks me. But everyone else can enjoy.

Why you should prefer verbs to nouns in the AI era. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/verbs-agai...

It’s safer for universities embrace the “Sunsteinian nudge” idea that students cannot be expected to develop better judgment, so things must be arranged such that good outcomes happen despite bad judgment. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/allowing-f...

This is the standard view on Reddit right now. I called it in February. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/its-later-...

This is helpful. We need to develop our internal AI detectors.

Just in time for back to school! hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-tel...

Reading great texts of the American founding doesn’t necessarily make a person less likely to bully a subordinate or wheedle a deal for herself. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ethical-di...

There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?

There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?

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This was a great forum. Many pearl-clutching laments (including by someone who blocked me here) but I am optimistic about faculty in the age of AI. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

How childhood literacy education that insists on "visualization" doesn't work. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/decoding-w...

Reading great texts of the American founding doesn’t necessarily make a person less likely to bully a subordinate or wheedle a deal for herself. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ethical-di...

This is my response to the "feminization" nonsense. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/who-is-lad...

This is my response to the "feminization" nonsense. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/who-is-lad...

I began to notice that when the trauma of the one child policy came up in interviews it was Dan who made sure to talk about forced abortions, not the (usually male) interviewer. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

As AI and new pedagogy is increasing the velocity of student learning, what will this mean for higher ed? Will these racing-through students want a degree in two years? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-two-mi...

I spoke at a leadership conference about AI adoption in higher ed and said, sternly, if your faculty are behind and recalcitrant, perhaps it is your fault! Leadership needs to make it easy for faculty to adopt AI. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...

How to Get to Mars (a short story) sciencefictiontalk.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

It is tokens all the way down. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...

I spoke at a leadership conference about AI adoption in higher ed and said, sternly, if your faculty are behind and recalcitrant, perhaps it is your fault! Leadership needs to make it easy for faculty to adopt AI. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...

How childhood literacy education that insists on "visualization" doesn't work. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/decoding-w...

As AI and new pedagogy is increasing the velocity of student learning, what will this mean for higher ed? Will these racing-through students want a degree in two years? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-two-mi...

Spite is one of those things AI will never understand. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/notes-on-s...

If you were to design society from scratch, behind the veil of ignorance, would you choose to have social media? If you didn’t know whether you’d be an influencer with 10 million followers, or someone whose mental health is destroyed? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/rawls-and-...

If you were to design society from scratch, behind the veil of ignorance, would you choose to have social media? If you didn’t know whether you’d be an influencer with 10 million followers, or someone whose mental health is destroyed? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/rawls-and-...

I am making a case for building and defending universities in a world that is requiring a defensive and forward-thinking posture. There are many wolves at the doors of academia, Academics need to be building brick houses, not dismantling them. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-academ...

AI is a logic machine that recognizes the logic of power. AI is not itself the master, but a tool for mastering reality, if one uses it for that rather than for aphoristic pleasure. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-academ...

Opinion | About That FIRE Study The methodology for measuring campus free speech ignores the changing ways students are engaging with controversial ideas—privately, and with the aid of AI, Hollis Robbins writes. https://bit.ly/4nuPRcH

“Students’ reluctance to perform controversial viewpoints in public settings may reflect a paradigm shift that meaningful engagement with controversial ideas requires privacy and reflection. AI may deliver all this far more fruitfully than the performative classroom discussions that FIRE champions”

Why on earth should most students go hear "speakers" these days when controversial ideas can be discussed safely from the privacy of the dorm room, with their AI chatbot. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

If your experience and learning is largely online, you are going to have a harder time being hired as a person by a person. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-canary...