This may sound strange, but many students either consciously or subconsciously do not see school (including college) as an opportunity to "learn." The transactional nature of the system is totalizing. Even students who don't want to outsource their learning to LLMs feel like maybe they should...

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I wish we had educational institutions that were robust enough to maintain a pedagogical mission. But the imbrications with carceral logics and deep investments in ed tech have made the path ahead very narrow.

I have to resist the tech determinist impulse to blame all of this on social media and LLMs, although that's incredibly tempting. The social contract around public education was already incredibly broken by the time the tech came around. >>

This thread is incredibly depressing, although I've heard much of the same from other instructors. >>

Too bad, companies are laying people off before they find out AI can’t replace them.

More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>

I have many papers here if you're interested in my views: olivia.science/ai

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This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1

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A view from the college teaching trenches coping with AI. Writing loses while tech readiness sees no gains. A thread

I am a coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program and a sociologist teaching at a community college in NYC. The stories I’m hearing from faculty about students’ AI use, or rather, their inability and unwillingness to do assignments without AI is blowing my mind. 1/x

Normies absolutely have no idea that there are any of the concerns or negative externalities with the major AI platforms, because media absolutely refuse to cover the topic.

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Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

“Russia has a new way to surveil its citizens: a ‘super app.’ Made by the Russian tech company VK, the app is called Max, and as of September 1, it’s required on every new phone sold in Russia.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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On top of everything else, it’s just so massively unnecessary- If sites want these things, actual experts on this stuff would be queuing up to write them for free!

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It's probably going to be deployed for things it can't do well versus things it can probably do well e.g. a single prompt that sets all assignments due dates. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Superheroes who look out for people and fight villains to protect them is now “woke”? What are they supposed to be doing? And Superman was always a nice guy.

Omg someone please DO THIS STUDY?!?

the same as reading and reading a text is a different experience from reading a summary. This type of claim (just use AI) is of course an "efficiency tool" claim and not an added value claim but every day these claims are bleeding together in ways that obscure why reading is worth doing. /3

but what of course emerged even in the accurate ones is that a summary done without intention is not the same as reading with intention, and a summary without a framework for what you're interested in and why is not the same as a summary based on curiosity and that a summary even if useful is not /2

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"These AI memos... should be understood less as examples of candid real talk than as disciplinary messages, or even threats..." nymag.com/intelligence...

As an early adopter of fitness trackers and one who sincerely believes their Apple Watch saved them, I draw the line at “bio-hacking” surveillance-where is the evidence that they help anyone have a better life?

It's like if you said a search engine was tutoring a kid because a teacher asked them to google stuff.

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It's a rich irony that a President who is obsessed by the trade balance is blocking one of our best exports: American higher ed. International students pay fees, create high-paying jobs, learn ideas, and spread them globally. But they can't come without reliable visas.

The papers all follow a similar template and make misleading claims https://go.nature.com/4kucwEH

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I wrote a short piece for Tech Policy Press outlining how I think our paper’s claims are useful for those working in AI policy: www.techpolicy.press/most-researc...

Using an LLM to generate a 100-word email requires .14 kilowatt-hours worth of electricity, enough to power 14 LED lights for an hour. If you were to send one AI email a week for a year, you'd use 7.5kWh, equal to an hour's worth of electricity consumed by 9 households. futurism.com/altman-pleas...

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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The entire thread is important; we educators should be reflecting on what assignments are doing (or what we think they do vs what they’re showing us they do). It feels as if AI/LLMs are just being shoehorned into curricula without any analytical reflection as to what we want their roles to be.

Government should NOT be run like a business. A business has COMPLETELY different goals from government. Government is meant to sustain a civilization. Business is to make money. Those are not the same thing, and the way you achieve one does not work to achieve the other.

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New work: Protecting Human Cognition in the Age of AI - with Anjali Singh, Karan Taneja, and Klara Guan. We claim that overreliance on GenAI models disrupt traditional learning pathways. We suggest best practices for better teaching, testing, and learning tools to restore these paths:

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