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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: 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…”

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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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Suresh Venkatasubramanian Joshua Grochow
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“we must build the people eating machine because otherwise someone else will build the people eating machine and they will be less nice.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Joshua Grochow: Starting to get kinda annoyed at senior mathematicians saying "I use AI to speed up my work because I have to. But we must protect junior researchers from being scooped. I just have no idea how!" Y…
Joshua Grochow: If you're worried an AI company would do it instead: (1) in most cases they probably won't*, and (2) even if you don't believe #1, by you doing it instead of an AI company (or internet rando) doing…
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