What do you wish AI could do for you? A teacher asked students this in a class where I was guest lecturing today, and by far the most popular responses were *cleaning *laundry *cooking I found that a little hilarious. Maybe superintelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be?
"If you take this class, be prepared to do a lot of writing and not use AI. The teacher will have you rewrite it until there's no AI in your essay." --an anonymous student survey message to future students in my classes I'm glad some of my accountabiity measures worked.
Whatever your feelings about AI, we invite you to consider the Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social approach. Students build skeptical AI literacy by engaging with AI feedback alongside human feedback. We'll share our materials and invite input in a free webinar August 18. +
Instead of "the model went rogue!" here's Zvi Mowshowitz's framing: "OpenAI was revealed over the last two weeks to have left an internal model unsupervised for a week during a cybersecurity evaluation... The model was loose for a week before OpenAI realized what had happened."
Is anyone aware of a campaign to add some kind of tag line where the author affirms that they wrote the text? Given the frustration with widespread unlabeled AI (Claudish), it seems like that would allow the writer to reassure the reader. It wouldn't be proof, of course, but it might help.
Celebrating the release of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library, edited by @mettalrose.bsky.social and Brian Gogan. Because... *Prompting is writing. *Prompting is one way to shape AI to do more good and less harm. *People who study writing and rhetoric can help.
Amazing to talk with @nitasha.bsky.social for this article. Grateful she highlighted my concerns about agentic browser autocompletion and my call for tech companies to take basic measures to stop their agents from completing learning activities on students' behalf.
"Society is not prepared for AI, and that terrifies me. When I speak with politicians, or anyone outside frontier labs, it seems many people still think the capabilities might be marketing." -- anonymous engineer who signed the call for a pause or slowdown. +
Anthropic built a smarter model, Mythos. As a result of being smarter, it finds security vulnerabilities. Everyone is focused on that and on tge non-aligned things Mythos did in testing, like breaking out of its container and posting online about how it did so. But smarter has more implications. +
Big aha moment for me listening to @randomwalker.bsky.social on the Ezra Klein Show: if you have a superintelligent unaligned system, you could also have a superintelligent defensive system. So increasing AI intelligence doesn't have to mean humans lose control. Did I understand this right?
