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“We need to talk to young people about reading to outrun and outfight injustice. Reading for liberation and emancipation & for intellectual freedom, and to have the strength to fight in the arenas of the mind, because when we let a computer think for us, we put a gun to the he…
“For now, roughly half of the university system’s ChatGPT licenses have been activated, suggesting that at the very least C.S.U. paid for tens of thousands of logins that have gone entirely unused.” This is the scandal in plain sight. Why is CSU paying for a product that is free?
Giddy with hope that this dumb op-ed will bait @colin-fraser.net into a thread pondering whether Toucan Sam is conscious. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Cheating has become omnipresent. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t used A.I. to get through some assignment in college…In our tech-enabled, newly A.I.-powered world, students were increasingly fudging just about everything.” A very God & Man at Stanford vibe here, but a…
"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work. We think educators should respec…
Did you read the OpenAI companion document that accompanied the Erdos conjecture, with commentary from prominent mathematicians? Really interesting, and much of what you’re saying is echoed by others (Melanie Wood and Thomas Bloom in particular). cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085...
“Americans hate data centers. They really, really hate them…The public seems to agree that data centers are giant, ugly, noisy, smelly altars to industrial-scale hostile architecture. In our virulently partisan country, this constitutes a rare show of consensus.” - @tressiemcp…
I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.
And now the media heavyweights weigh in. @danagoldstein.bsky.social does a thorough job reporting on the ed-tech ambitions of Alpha School, and whether existing claims about its effectiveness withstand scrutiny (answer: no). Appreciate the nod to my reporting on the boot camp …
Dr. Gopnik can certainly speak for herself, but it is indeed #3 that led me to chime in here, social media providing a forum for debate and all. And, well, once again I can only recur to the established scientific fact that language is not the same as thought. www.theverge.com…
This wide ranging conversation will cause heartburn for AI enthusiasts and skeptics alike. It's worth listening to (or reading) for that very reason. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/esto...
LLMs are a cognitive virus, hence cognitive immunization. It "does not mean preventing contact with AI. It means preserving the practices and institutions that keep human cognition active: unaided problem solving, verification, critical discussion, [and] periods of deliberate disengagement."
A late Friday afternoon data visualization for those who want to see the magnitude of harm caused by generative AI on student learning per the recent viral study. There is no detectable benefit to students on high stakes exams. But sadly there is a massive deadweight learning loss.
Corresponding with a mother who says she enrolled her child in Alpha School so they would be surrounded by "high agency people" and when I ask what that means she sends a cut-and-paste job from ChatGPT and I just.... (gestures wildly and feels his sanity slipping further into the abyss)
AI enthusiasts: “AI will improve education!” Teachers: “Students are giving us polished turds.”
While getting my hair cut, my stylist — also in grad school — tells me she had a guest professor who told her class they need “AI literacy,” which apparently meant having Chat write biographies for each student. My stylist asked, “why? We already…know who we are?” She got a nice tip.
Reading an essay by @mikexcohen.bsky.social comparing the complexity of biological neurons with the input-output function of the artificial neurons used in AI and here's his pictorial summation of the two:
Just received an email from OpenAI about all the neat things one can create using Codex and it hit me — this is just the old SkyMall catalog but at scale. Stuff that’s kind of novel and semi-intriguing for like two minutes but ultimately solving problems no one really has.
Dear @michaelhobbes.bsky.social what if I told you there was an allegedly "AI-driven" private school that's built its "reading" curriculum around the books you so wonderfully take apart on your podcast? Dominating the airport bookstore is insufficient, an entire "school" must be built!
OpenAI is launching a new suite of "education plug-ins" and just look at the amazing pedagogical innovations that are happening now because of AI.
What makes us human? Moments ago I just completed a presentation with the Criticial Studies in AI network and I put this question directly to those who attended. Below is a snippet of their beautiful and thoughtful responses. I am inspired today by the human world as it ought to be.
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