The Who's Who of AI

“This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, that has fuck-all to do with OpenAI's culpability here. www.…”

“I spent most of last year covering ChatGPT-4o's unsettling effects on some users. OpenAI pulled it off the market in February. @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social writes about a software engineer who died in Feb who had been using 4o to help her go off her epileps…”

“Of interest from Justin Reich today: a panel discussion on "faulty meta-analyses related to AI in Education":”

“I would love everyone in education, regardless of level, to watch this discussion of the grave methodological problems of meta analysis papers on "AI in education." We are years from even a potentially valid analysis. Anyone claiming to know something now i…”

“Maybe, just maybe, the way to think productively about the intersection and AI is to spend much more time thinking about humans and much less about AI. That's what I tried to do in More Than Words through the lens of writing and teaching writing. www.amazon…”

“How AI causes job loss: 1. Semafor highlights AI use in Dartmouth prof's oped. www.semafor.com/article/08/2... 2. Student journos find other examples. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026... 3. School reviews prof's Claude logs and he resigns: www.insidehigher…”

“Given Dartmouth's president's declaration of wanting "more AI" at her institution, I'm a little surprised by this, but the investigation and faculty deliberation seems quite fair and thorough. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...”

“If you don't believe me, a humble writer and former writing teacher, about the importance of taste and judgement rooted in knowledge, trust Ethan Mollick, one of our our leading AI whisperers, who agrees with me. biblioracle.substack.com/p/agreement-...”

“But the otter test is a novelty. It is not a meaningful gauge of how AI tools might be useful to us or how we might think about these human capacities in relation to AI. Marveling at the capacity of AI to produce novelties is a waste of everyone's time. bib…”

“This advice on teaching with AI from Harvard’s Bok Center has a real “throw shit at the wall and see what sticks quality. Entirely unserious. No grounding in learning. bokcenter.harvard.edu/examples-and...”

“I don't know about the rest of Tyler Cowen's "radical" vision for higher ed, but the fact that he thinks writing is learned by locking people in a room with Blue Books suggests he doesn't know how writing is learned. www.chronicle.com/article/tyle...”

“Marissa Mayer has not thought through what it might mean to outsource the planning of your child's birthday party to her AI assistant (Dazzle), but I have. biblioracle.substack.com/p/should-you...”

“Anyway, I'm very grateful to the people whose work informed the book, the folks I've gotten to meet with as I workshop and speak, and the opportunity to continue to focus my time on work that I enjoy and believe to be important. Writing really is more than …”

“I believe there's a growing awareness of the essential human capacities we all need to be human in the presence of AI and at the core of those capacities is reading and writing. biblioracle.substack.com/p/agreement-...”

“Forgot the link to the first piece I wrote after ChatGPT was in the world: biblioracle.substack.com/p/chatgpt-ca...”