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Multiple readings ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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AI classroom youth harm essay

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Abeba Birhane, Chris Marsden
“"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...” evidence ↗
13 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark Steph Wright Mél Hogan / The Data Fix tante Benjamin Riley +5
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...”

Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 14d ago
Mythos WordPress platform failure essay

Where was Mythos when WordPress fell?

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Abeba Birhane
“"So securing critical software for the AI era arrived, in practice, as a queue of tickets landing on unpaid volunteers who were already drowning." patrik.re/where-was-my...” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Abeba Birhane Gina Helfrich

“"So securing critical software for the AI era arrived, in practice, as a queue of tickets landing on unpaid volunteers who were already drowning." patrik.re/where-was-my...”

Primary source patrik.re ↗
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3 experts · 15 posts · 8d ago
Abeba Birhane Jeni Tennison Anthony Moser
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“It's so broken. One suggestion I heard was to respond to applications with a short relevant exercise. The idea is that those applying in automated ways to jobs they don't care about will fail to re…” evidence ↗
Abeba Birhane: i need to recruit for some roles and put out ads at some stage, but the process of recruiting has become so overwhelming as i know we’ll receive 100s of llm generated applications *sigh*
Jeni Tennison: It's so broken. One suggestion I heard was to respond to applications with a short relevant exercise. The idea is that those applying in automated ways to jobs they don't care about will fail to re…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 18d ago
Abeba Birhane Lilian Edwards Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র
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“i’m forced to conclude those who write these policies either lack sufficient knowledge of the technology and the ai industry at large or are intentionally pushing policies that are misleading and n…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Abeba Birhane: been reading university/higher-ed policies on the use of genAI in education. most policies propose using genAI safely, ethically, & responsibly, which is an oxymoron. the way current genAI is devel…
Abeba Birhane: imo, you have to choose between using genAI OR cultivating fundamental educational values. you simply can’t have both 🤷🏾‍♀️
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3 experts · 3 posts · 9d ago
Abeba Birhane Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র Teresa Heffernan
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“narrator: AI can't improve student learning, writing, critical thinking or communication skills. it diminishes them” evidence ↗
Abeba Birhane: narrator: AI can't improve student learning, writing, critical thinking or communication skills. it diminishes them
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র: narrator: AI can't improve student learning, writing, critical thinking or communication skills. it diminishes them
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