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Harvard writing tutor AI education critique

I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson

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Benjamin Riley John Warner Jed Brown

“The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www…”

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John Warner: The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating fr…
Benjamin Riley: The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating fr…
Benjamin Riley: I would not have predicted we’d see more encouraging resistance to AI intrusion into higher education from U Chicago and MIT than we are seeing from Harvard. But then, my predictions are often wrong.
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4 experts · 22 posts · 16d ago
Ted Underwood John Warner Jane Rosenzweig Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: It’s important to me that my writing is *my* voice—warts and all. But I’m also not sure you can build a research discipline where the chief difference between an A paper and a C paper is “does this…
Ted Underwood: So I think a lot of debates about “whether to allow AI in writing classes” are fighting over the wrong part. We should be talking about how the nature of research in various disciplines can expand …
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3 experts · 24 posts · 13d ago
M.J. Crockett John Warner Jane Rosenzweig
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
John Warner: Thinking about what I see as a contradiction lately. I think it's pretty clear that AI has advanced quite a lot in terms of its capabilities and reliability since the arrival of Chat GPT, and yet, …
John Warner: ...I'd have almost no use for it. I've had people demonstrate a number of different AI agentic capacities, suggesting I might benefit from something similar and my response thus far is, I don't thi…
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2 experts · 9 posts · 10d ago
Benjamin Riley John Warner
John Warner: We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.
John Warner: The bad human stuff is "crap." Fully automated AI outputs are slop.
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2 experts · 6 posts · 9d ago
John Warner Jane Rosenzweig
John Warner: Dealt with two "digital assistants" over the phone today (HVAC & dentist) and I will admit that the process was reasonably efficient, but I also hated it and the experiences put me on edge. They an…
John Warner: One business is "open" the other is closed. I have more sympathy to the closed business using the technology when they're closed. It's substituting for voice mail. The open business (HVAC) though, …
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2 experts · 3 posts · 10d ago
Shannon Vallor John Warner
John Warner: The whole benefit of becoming an academic, it seemed to me, was that you could be valued for your unique intelligence. That some (maybe many) folks instead want to shelve that uniqueness to they ca…
Shannon Vallor: If I cared about getting rich or getting my work over with as easily and quickly as possible, I had dozens of better paths to either of those goals. I assume this is true for most academics, artist…
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