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Multiple readings Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions
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open letter AI academia adoption

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Luke Stark Joshua Grochow
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“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science”

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“Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their na…”

2 experts discussed this · 19 posts
Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
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Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

Opposing the inevitability of ai at universities is possible and necessary

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains @olivia.science … ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial pr…” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest

“It’s not the first time that universities have gotten tangled up with developments that would later come to haunt them, explains @olivia.science … ‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial pr…”

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Iris van Rooij: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Luke Stark: ‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities…
Iris van Rooij: See also bsky.app/profile/iris...
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5 experts · 18 posts · 14d ago
Thomas Dietterich Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Emile van Krieken Dr J. Rosenbaum
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“I believe we will eventually have such a theory, but as usual, theory lags practice in engineering” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Iris van Rooij: Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... …
Olivia Guest: Yeah I quote that
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2 experts · 15 posts · 15d ago
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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“> AI [...] disconnects entirely the academic process and the academic product. A good essay no longer means that the student will have devoted effort and developed the ability to find, read and syn…” evidence ↗
Olivia Guest: @olivia.science Here's a first draft of what your piece on anxiety made me think about. I will post it properly next week as a quote post to that. I've put all the "an old academic wistfully rememb…
Olivia Guest: > I have experience that is cousin to this also – of not being trusted. For example, I was once accused by a colleague of having “gone native” for my preference to support students rather than coll…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 11d ago
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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“Was thinking … ofc one can use modeling as a methodology to advance understanding of child development, but this need not devolve in dehumanizing comparisons and/or formal realism. Our field is dee…” evidence ↗
Iris van Rooij: Is it possible to know the source? I am curious if this is from who I think it is. If you cannot share, no worries
Iris van Rooij: Thanks!
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2 experts · 2 posts · 17d ago
Timnit Gebru Iris van Rooij
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““Even though I was able to build such an AI system, I was not able to understand it,” says Leahy -- I recommend also checking out this paper by @olivia.science et al.” evidence ↗
Iris van Rooij: “Even though I was able to build such an AI system, I was not able to understand it,” says Leahy -- I recommend also checking out this paper by @olivia.science et al.
Timnit Gebru: They keep on platforming these people over and over 🙄
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