Today in AI in education is cop shit: "BusPatrol’s cameras would take a photo of each car a bus drives past, record the car’s license plate and GPS location, and then law enforcement can query that data."
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Charles Logan
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
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‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access 404media.co
The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School wired.com
People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO wired.com
The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Majority of City Council Members Urge Mamdani to Pause A.I. in Schools nytimes.com
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How to talk about buttondown.com
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"People everywhere are picking up the mantle of collective resistance....Educators and students are pressuring their institutions. Victims and their families are suing. Tech employees themselves are campaigning. Group chats for more organizing abound. People are marching." - @…
What emerges from this latest look at Alpha School is detail after detail revealing just how much the company’s leadership and investors absolutely despise children, their families, and education.
"xAI is selling $15 billion per year in compute at its Memphis campuses to Anthropic, another company planning a blockbuster IPO in the coming months. 'People don’t matter to SpaceX, or Anthropic, or whoever is building these data centers,’ [Representative] Pearson says.”
What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org
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- Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
- The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
- Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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Solidarity with these students who want no part in this experiment: "A small but vocal minority of Estonian students say they refuse to use AI on moral grounds, citing issues such as water consumption by data centers or political complaints about U.S. tech companies, teachers …
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Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
I think education researchers considering applying for these funds must be clear-eyed about Anthropic and the company's decision to partner with Elon Musk's xAI for its compute power at Colossus 1, the same Colossus 1 that's deepening environmental racism by poisoning the air …
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- The $200M partnership splits contributions between Anthropic's API credits and technical staff versus the Gates Foundation's direct grant funding.
- Multilingual datasets produced under the deal will be released as public goods, available to researchers and developers beyond the partnership.
- Target geographies are low- and middle-income countries, with specific literacy program focus on sub-Saharan Africa and India.
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I appreciate that the letter, signed by 29 of 51 city council members, called for ongoing "'education on the multiple risks in employing the technology’”, an approach that reinforces teaching about and against AI technologies before (if ever) teaching with them.
This analysis from @bcmerchant.bsky.social on "Anthropic’s Mythos stunt” and "Its sheer cynicism, rank opportunism, and, yes, its ultimate effectiveness” is the kind of critical AI literacy that I’d like to see taught in schools.
A useful resource for educators and students. And I also appreciate this from @emilymbender.bsky.social: "Be a stick in the mud! If you think about our current situation as mired in mud that's hard to walk in, if you plant a stick, you can start to create firm ground for other…
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- The guide covers six language categories: cognition, emotion, communication, agency, human-role analogies, and biological metaphors.
- Proposed substitutions include 'probabilistic automation' for 'artificial intelligence' and 'conversation simulator' for 'chatbot.'
- Rephrasing 'ChatGPT assisted students' as 'the students used ChatGPT' is given as an example of restoring human accountability.
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One thing you learn from reading so many accounts of edtech “innovations”’over the decades is how the mischaracterization of what schools actually look like never changes. The people quoted always parrot shit like “schools haven’t changed in 80 years” despite this having no ba…
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Important life update! Starting this fall, I'm going to be joining the State University of New York as a research assistant professor at Binghamton University. I will be leading a new research stream on AI and Society as part of Binghamton University’s First-Year Research Immersion Program.
TBH would love to see booing AI boosters spread to other contexts beyond graduation. Attending a professional development session led by some dude spewing AI hype? BOOOOOO. Enjoying a serene late spring/early summer family BBQ and Cousin Chad starts sharing his Claude life hacks? BOOOO, Chad, BOOOOO
This Independence Day, I’m excited to announce the launch of my revolutionary AI-powered learning platform - Uncle Scam - that uses the latest in total data surveillance technologies plus bonus analytics to both personalize and democratize education like nothing you’ve ever seen! 🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there…unless you’re offloading your caregiving and storytelling to a chatbot or Amazon Echo or some other relationship-eroding technology, in which case, WTAF, my dude.
Oh hey excited to attend my first 4S to present, “Parents, Caregivers, and a Growing Resistance to TechnoPower in Schools" with @alliethrall.bsky.social and “Refusing AI Hype in an Undergraduate Classroom: Reflections on AI, Equity, and Public Education" with Sepehr Vakil. See you in Toronto 🍁
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