John Mark OckerbloomPenn is holding an AI Month in April, including sessions at the Libraries and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities discussing issues of copyright, geospatial and qualitiative analysis applications (presumably using machine learning/classification), and the "new political economy of writing": https://ai.upenn.edu/welcome-ai-month-penn
More of the Penn sessions appear positive than critical. The editorial board of the Daily Pennsylvanian (student newspaper) is concerned about that attitude, warning "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking, threatening the very freedom of inquiry and open expression it claims to promote." https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/03/penn-ai-dominance-education
John McChesney-YoungRE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116295745357971471
@JMarkOckerbloom Not specific to academic thinking but did you by chance see this? https://social.coop/@cwebber/11629574535797147
@jmccyoung I have read that. I'm not sure how much we can really tell about the long-term effects of genAI at this point, but I do worry about a number of different types of losses from it that will be hard to recover from.