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Miriam Posner
Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out from Yale UP in fall 2026. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
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‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access 404media.co
Waiting for AGI | AI & SOCIETY | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com
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Personifying AI Harms People and Protects Companies techpolicy.press
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Writing, Cognitive Offloading and Generative AI (opinion) insidehighered.com
Writing, Cognitive Offloading and Generative AI (opinion) insidehighered.com
Canvas Release Notes (2026-05-16) - Instructure Community community.instructure.com
Failing grades soar as professors see greater AI usage, dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley computer science classes dailycal.org
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“decisions with lasting social consequences are attached to a future moment when the technology is assumed to have revealed its true form, rather than addressed in the present in which it already operates. […] it defers responsibility by attaching accountability to a moment th…
Miriam Posner reposted
The AI consciousness debate is a trap, argues Randima Fernando, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. The real question is not whether or not a model “feels” fear when its internal workings light up; it is who profits from blurring that line and who gets harmed.
I thought this was very good. It also got me thinking: I can tell *immediately* when my writing has been edited by someone else, because I know my voice so well. I assume others are the same. I wonder what it means to never gain that ability. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/vie…
I thought this was very good. It also got me thinking: I can tell *immediately* when my writing has been edited by someone else, because I know my voice so well. I assume others are the same. I wonder what it means to never gain that ability. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/vie…
Coming tomorrow to Canvas, if your university subscribes at the Canvas Next tier (IDK what that is either) and your IT department enables "Ignite AI." community.instructure.com/en/discussio...
Huh. 35% of CS10 students flunked? www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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Something I would find useful would be an undergrad-friendly history of AI, from perceptron to transformer, explaining the rise of different ideas, the “AI winter,” etc. I know of encyclopedia articles that don’t quite do that and books that tell the story at length, but I need a v concise version.
Reflecting on a conversation with my students about AI in teaching. The promise of AI is infinite productivity, at infinite speed. But the implicit promise of teaching is that an expert will give you some of their very *finite* time. You are important enough that your instructor will incur a loss.
I actually pay to use a search engine that lets me turn off AI overviews and penalizes AI-likely search results because I find Google AI overviews absolutely infuriating.
“…I see, so you won’t use ChatGPT because you love to write?” *laughing* “Oh God no, it’s the fucking worst.”
Interesting AI-assisted sales pitch: an offer to write a Wikipedia article about me. This must be really common, but it’s the first time I’ve gotten one.
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