Show threadCriticalAIOct 10, 2024

We are currently organizing an online reading group for those interested in research and teaching on #criticalailiteracies.

Feel free to write us for more information [email protected]

We'd love to be in dialogue!
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CriticalAIOct 10, 2024

Replying to @emilymbender's posts over on X: https://x.com/emilymbender/status/1844064007235436711

A reasonable alternative to a top-down policy, we believe, is to enable #criticalAIliteracies to develop from the bottom up. Allow faculty to make choices that comport w/ the learning objectives for their course. Educate students to empower them and enable good decision-making+

@[email protected] on Mastodon (@emilymbender) on X

Today, @UW sent out a survey asking community members to share our thoughts about the recommendations of the University's AI task force. It's a push-poll, that doesn't even define "AI", and the recommendations are appaling. In that light, reupping this: https://t.co/TgMSqnDNHL

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Show threadCriticalAIMay 9, 2024

I would need more info to comment here.

My #criticalAIliteracies approach is oriented around harms and these are so significant that I've yet to find actual "pros" that require the use of something like ChatGPT. Coding asst may be the best use case but the coders I know vary.
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Show threadCriticalAIApr 23, 2024

For the case that students today need #criticalAIliteracies see Goodlad and Conrad in this collection of essays featuring work by Jeremy Knox and @BenPatrickWill & others. /11

https://www.norrag.org/news-policy-insights-ai-digital-inequities/

An Ethical AI for Equitable Education - NORRAG -

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, yet recent important innovations made the public interest and policy conversations shift in important ways. AI is here to stay and challenges concerning the reflection of inequalities need to be addressed. On Wednesday 13 March 2024, NORRAG launched its 4th Policy Insights entitled AI and Digital Inequities... Read More

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CriticalAIApr 16, 2024

The real truth is that the most employable ppl in the future will be those who understand what "AI" can't do. #criticalAIliteracies

In response to: https://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1779213221867520038

Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) on X

Note how Witherspoon’s language mirrors exactly the sort that’s been posted by blue check AI boosters for months. It’s become a mantra that’s exceptionally useful to AI companies and influencers—pay for AI services, read the newsletters, or lose your job! AI generated FOMO

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Show threadCriticalAIApr 2, 2024
/2 Adding in interest of full disclosure that I'm particularly interested in education: the perception that AI will "revolutionize" business fuels the perception that educators MUST adopt commercial bots in their classrooms ASAP.
Though I support teaching #CriticalAIliteracies ...
Show threadCriticalAIMar 19, 2024

(Read Allison & Tiffany Derewal's forthcoming CAI paper on the PITFALLS OF CHATBOT "RESEARCH" which is developed from their excellent talk at our #CRITICALAILITERACIES event which you can listen to. https://sites.rutgers.edu/critical-ai/event-details/. )

Do not be fooled by #AIHype, do not believe that you must "teach with" chatbots b/c of phony FOMO; don't teach w/ any technology that you don't yet understand yourself. (If you need more information, here's a living document that might help you.)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TAXqYGid8sQz8v1ngTLD1qZBx2rNKHeKn9mcfWbFzRQ/edit?usp=sharing

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