arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r... “In other words, letting an AI do your reasoning means your reasoning is only ever going to be as good as that AI system. As always, let the prompter beware.”

Hi #ungrading comrades! I am designing a new EdD in Catholic Social Thought and Practice and we want do have an ungrading format (pass/no pass). The Director of Assessment is unfamiliar with ungrading and says she needs some kind of quantitative scores for assessment (accreditation, etc.). Has …

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

No it didnt, thats not true, stop this BS. The AI didnt decide to do shit about fuck. It didnt decide to post to wikipedia. It didnt get mad and write about being rejected on its blog. A person did those things and had an llm do the typing STOP. DESCRIBING. THESE THINGS. AS IF. THEY. HAVE. AGENCY!

To my surprise I got invited to be on a panel here called "The Problem of AI" and took the opportunity to try to shift the discussion from boosterism & normalization, however "thoughtful and deliberative," & toward the political economy of higher education nathankhensley.net/uncategorize...

Event Weds 4/8, “Innovation or Extraction?: AI and the Future of Public Education,” San Francisco State University. With @alexhanna.bsky.social, author of “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want,” and an op-ed workshop by @scholars.org. All welcome, RSVP below!

Never thought of it like that before. Would absolutely fit with the overall attack on critical scholarship from white-male supremacy/neofascism (capitalism).

I am beyond tired of “in the weeds” convos that fail to reckon with the horrifying truth that the AI & Big Tech industries’ will to power is among the proximate causes of the US’s accelerating descent into autocracy. “AI” is both the motivation and the instrument of authoritarian consolidation.

"Let us not ask what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do ourselves, while we still have the brain capacity to think on our own." (Wondering if Luddite clubs might spring up at other schools where students are similarly frustrated with administrators' #AI obsession...)

As this happens, LLMs are actively harming big tech, creating problems for hyperscalers like Meta and Amazon, leaking data and breaking services as non-coders are incentivized to ship product, and LLM use becomes part of performance reviews. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

See also medium.com/center-on-pr...

Happy 🌱Spring 🌱 medium.com/@heatherlesl...

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

Not sure if you've read Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality, but she synthesizes a lot of scholarship on, as well as surfaces from her own research a lot of issues with "human in the loop" as a concept, and why it ultimately fails in implementation.

Wow this is good.

For St. Patrick's Day, I give to you the greatest myth of my people: Séamas O'Reilly Meets Irish President Mary McAleese While High on Ketamine Does it matter that it happened after my ancestors left Ireland? No. It is greater than Cú Chulainn, scarier than Balor, more heroic than Brian Boru.

My essay on AI and Freire's *Pedagogy of the Oppressed* is pretty much writing itself at this point...

I think this framing is applicable for educators too.

One of the many, many things genAI destroys is human collaboration. It actively creates loners, guys spinning off into the deep end with literally no one around them to go "hey what the fuck are you talking about" or "hey this sounds like the thing I've been working on" or "check out this book"

Outsourcing their what now?

had some thoughts on AI boosters' weird myopia

The best I've read in quite some time. I STRONGLY hope / recommend that you find/make time to read it in its entirety. From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/visions-of-l...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

As always, here's @marcusluther.bsky.social with a truly excellent piece on @edutopia.org! In education, we talk about the time about teachers modeling learning and behavioral habits for kids. Marcus applies that same idea here to our AI use. www.edutopia.org/article/teac...

CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."

Good thread on the psychological violence and emptiness of wrangling synthetic text. Still, note that "hallucination" is a misnomer; the epistemic nihilism is always. Meaning is strictly in the eye of the beholder and correctness or falsehood can only ever be incidental, linguistic serendipity.

We need a new model for peace education for this world. Here is one school that is giving me hope for the future medium.com/@heatherlesl...

Hi friends - I'm working on article about efforts to measure, track, and adjust WORKLOAD in higher ed, both for staff and faculty. I'm interested in talking to people who have experiences w/: -Workload management gone wrong -Exemplars of workload measurement -True tales of workload being adjusted

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin posted today by @sjcerv.bsky.social

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

okay real quick 🧵: why AI is definitely going to explode and die, because of the last two times this happened: the dot-com bubble, and enron. people say these events are complicated, but they're actually pretty simple

Don’t believe them when they say it’s inevitable.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Many in industry are now realigning their role into essentially data entry for an LLM, following this same pattern.

Love Prof Sepinwall’s approach to cultivating student engagement, belonging, and success in the classroom 🙌

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Genuine question about this: What does it actually look like to “augment thinking” using AI in a way that actually enhances a student’s intellectual growth? In my personal experimentation, AI short-circuits the kind of thinking that allows for building knowledge and reflection on worldview … 🤷🏾‍♂️

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

And for *me*, given what I know now and how *I* feel, it would be “critical washing” to use LLMs with my students for reading and writing. bsky.app/profile/iris...

"the loss of critical thinking and learning skills is less of a personal failure and more of a policy one, calling the generation of Americans educated with gadgets victims of a failed pedagogical experiment." shorturl.at/Xukya

Important thread about dehumanization by and for the benefit of tech companies w/lots of good resources

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power." The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

An Effective Altruist writing about AI should be taken as seriously as a Scientologist writing about L Ron Hubbard webworm.co/newgods

The spirit gripped me today and moved me to write this essay on "good old fashioned artificial intelligence," which I position as opposite to the ethically compromised Machine Learning-based AI of today. I don't think people will like what I have to say. blog.wellssanto.com/revisiting-g...

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

New to me: the AI Now Institute's North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit, which is, "primarily geared toward stopping, slowing, and restricting rampant data center development in the US at the local and state level."

Great curated list of critical AI books from Prof. Dagmar Monett #AcademicSky monettdiaz.com/books-critic...