Excerpt from #ChronicleOfHigherEd

Here Come the Student #AIResisters

By Len Gutkin

" 'The use of #AI,' #PopeLeoXIV writes in an encyclical 'on safeguarding the human person in the time of #ArtificialIntelligence,' issued earlier this month, 'is never a purely technical matter: When it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status, and freedom.' The pope wants to 'disarm' the new technology — which, for him, means 'preventing it from dominating humanity.'

"One portion of humanity assaulted by AI is #undergraduates, some of whom have accordingly formed the vanguard of the pope’s call for disarmament. A recent essay in The New Critic, '#TheGreatZombification,' is an articulate cry of resistance. Written by Owen Yingling, a rising senior at the University of Chicago majoring in philosophy and business economics, the essay offers a student’s-eye view of the cognitive degradation wrought by rampant AI use. Yingling sees this as a catastrophe triggered in part by a kind of generational betrayal, as 'the old ... do not demand enough from us.' Last year, the Yale English professor Jonathan Kramnick predicted in our pages that 'as institutional leadership drifts toward anticipatory obedience, students will begin to reconstruct education around the living, embodied world of meaning and experience they feel has been stolen from them.' Yingling’s essay is a manifesto for that cause."

Full article [behind paywall, unfortunately]:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/here-come-the-student-ai-resisters?utm_campaign=che-eng-rg-twihe&utm_medium=em&utm_source=mkto&utm_content=26-05-30&mkt_tok=OTMxLUVLQS0yMTgAAAGiF8A1GmhjZDt1f4TQQA-i2cQGg9CtF0-W8ODvQjGNPQ-5n2OxxZMyJlsF2k1uWKQWvIvGednroINV6Bb71R7vgRkDmGumhbDRCT794fhwur5exC8

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