Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)What if universities responded to AI hype with confidence in their core mission rather than FOMO?
https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/more-collegiate-fomo/
cuan_knaggs@emilymbender what if universities where a public good and not for profit
Autolycus 🏴☠️@mensrea @emilymbender This is our fundamental problem. We view students as customers to be appeased rather than pupils. It’s no different than why every piece of software is desperate to adopt AI, even when it makes no sense. It’s all marketing.
Brad Rosenheim@[email protected] university has so much FOMO that we have created an entire College of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. It still needs to be ratified by the Faculty Senate, but our provost comes from am AI background. SMH.
michael@emilymbender What is FOMO? is it fear of missing out?
narF 😵✌️@jmichael @emilymbender That's my understanding yes
John Tinker@emilymbender You make a good point about the allocation of funds to various aspects of a multi-factored reality. Indeed, the focus on the machine part of machine ethics, rather on the ethics part, does point to the fundamental fact that choices are made, decisions are decided, during resource allocation. The intending actors become the interesting feature of the situation. I simply note that funding itself is a social system, and that, subsequent to the capture of the species of exchange by a relative few, funding, as a social system capable of fixing its own broken self, might not be entirely up to the job. I am imagining that the working space of such a day as this one there is required will and intention beyond funding. Those relative few who have captured the medium of economic score-keeping, as it were, are more in charge of funding with each passing day.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@emilymbender Exactly! They should keep their focus on graphene!
Hagbard@emilymbender Are the Trisolarians behind AI?