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Multiple readings Report – AI and Education Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Culture, work & education Resource 7d ago
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MIT AI education report published

Report – AI and Education

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Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Grace Lindsay Damien Williams Eileen Clancy 🧿 Nicole Hennig Elizabeth Bonawitz Derek Willis +2
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“New MIT report on AI calls for less emphasis on grades, more on project-based learning, recognition that programs for undergraduate research assistants are educational experiences that should not be replaced even if AI agents can do the research for less $$…”

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“AI and Education- MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ #AI #education (very comprehensive & foundational)”

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Ted Underwood: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Derek Willis: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Ted Underwood: The world changing is mainly a problem for students. It also changes our ability to evaluate students — but if that’s the primary/sole focus of our conversation, we’ve forgotten the mission.
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Established AI field signal Resource 12d ago
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Emory DSCI 340 course materials resource

GitHub - laurenfklein/dsci340-fall26: Notebooks and other course materials for Emory DSCI 340 (Fall 2026 - Klein)

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Maria Antoniak Lauren Klein

“After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structured around a single project: training up a C19 LLM from scra…”

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Lauren Klein: After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structu…
Maria Antoniak: After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structu…
Lauren Klein: NB: The first lesson is about the data center in Virginia that is hosting our cloud compute, and the last one is about the actual people who do RLHF for OpenAI and Meta (our class will be doing its…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 11d ago
Maria Antoniak Nina Beguš Emily Hunt
Maria Antoniak: I’m also trying a variant of this with my CS grad seminar this semester. No screens in class, readings are printed and annotated by hand, and students create “commonplace books” with their notes an…
Maria Antoniak: But outside of class, they can use tech however they want, including AI. I have no method or desire for policing them.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 6d ago
Maria Antoniak Laura K. Nelson
Laura K. Nelson: "RAG improves technical quality, in particular factual accuracy, and prompt engineering steers social representation as requested." I've seen enough similar results, I'm ready to take a stand: We c…
Maria Antoniak: Both? But agreed that it’s frustrating to see people often reporting on unrealistic or non-expert usages alone. It devalues the capabilities of the actual humans engaging in these tasks.
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2 experts · 5 posts · 10d ago
Maria Antoniak suhr
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
suhr: Maybe we should be holding HuggingFace responsible for not suing the shit out of OpenAI.
suhr: To elaborate, them cooperating and working with OpenAI frames them *both* as victims of some external force. We've lost an opportunity to set a precedent for holding *people* accountable
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2 experts · 4 posts · 13d ago
Maria Antoniak Eugene Vinitsky
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Eugene Vinitsky: Really good overview of how arxiv is thinking about handling the incoming LLM wave and the considerations going into it
Maria Antoniak: We’re already incredibly overworked. We already have too many paper reviews to write and too many other important service roles. Unless someone is really passionate about the arxiv and see it as a …
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