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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 Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“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…” 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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Anthropic Claude FLT formal math proof

FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Joshua Grochow
“And…it wasn’t even that useful (in the math sense of the word “useful”, I don’t mean like “useful useful” outside of math, it wasn’t even useful within math): xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...” evidence ↗
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Agustin Lebron Joshua Grochow

“And…it wasn’t even that useful (in the math sense of the word “useful”, I don’t mean like “useful useful” outside of math, it wasn’t even useful within math): xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...”

“@alexolegimas Kevin Buzzard seems to think it's pretty mechanical? I curious why you think this is IMI. https://t.co/iTX7891C57”

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3 experts · 17 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood Joshua Grochow Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“True doesn’t always mean “useful” or “acceptable“. Discerning that is the hard part now” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: LLMs are going to fundamentally change what scholarship is. Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career. Now much of that can be offloaded, leaving scholars the tasks of understanding,…
Joshua Grochow: Re "Pumping out true propositions used to be a viable career." Even "back then" (i.e. last year? this year?) you still had to pump out true propositions *that other people were interested in*. What…
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2 experts · 7 posts · 4d ago
Suresh Venkatasubramanian Joshua Grochow
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“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…” 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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