A side effect of a new department (founded 2015) is that we have very very few alumni donations. And I sometimes get the (very kind) question "how can I support you since you don't get paid for teaching random internet people about AI ethics?" Support my students instead :) bi…
Who's Who of AI
Casey Fiesler
Information science professor, technology ethics
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
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Recent commentary
Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations
I saw someone referring to the booing of commencement speakers talking about AI as a tantrum from students who don’t understand technology. That made me think that I bet machine breaking was also perceived as a tantrum. Anyway, here’s some thoughts about the Luddites.