Jennifer Sano-Franchini

Beyond this, there is the question of environmental and social costs of using the tool. Even as someone who spends his life pondering questions, I don't think the value of AI in helping students develop questions outweighs the ongoing damage that AI causes.

The problem that you're suggesting that AI solve is not a problem that should be solved with AI: it is a problem of culture and it needs a cultural solution.

To help students think through an idea without facing ridicule or bias, we don't need AI: we need to create a better educational environment.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

'The students will feel it': University of Nebraska offers buyouts to 500-plus professors Tenured faculty age 62 or older with at least 10 years of service will be eligible to receive a payment equal to 70% of their base salary.

This isn't good.

The University of Nebraska is offering buyouts to 500-plus professors in an effort to cut $27.5 million from its budget by the end of the year.

www.klkntv.com/the-students...

once again, @historians.org, how could you put out that guidance on AI that basically said "sure there are ethical issues but we cant ignore it so here is how you could use it?" It is trained and built on the theft of the works of thousands of historians. Millions of authors and artists.

At first I thought GPT 5 had got this right then I saw things like "Tonnessee," "Mississipo" and my personal favourite "West Wigina." Please do not respond just saying the different typos to me we can all read the joke, we all know about "Distrricke"

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.

www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Important but this should not be news to anyone at this point. These findings are consistent with research on the discrepancies in the feedback LLMs offer student work (see Warr et al) as well as some of the deep linguistic bias in large language models (see Hofman et al). Bias. Is. Baked. In.

I'm going to echo Damien here and also say stop acting like "generative AI" provides you with anything resembling expert advice or guidance.

It doesn't. It can't. It can't because expert guidance requires understanding the context in which you are asking the question.

Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.*

Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.

How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | TechPolicy.Press The next few years will be pivotal for determining the future of AI and its impact on energy grids worldwide, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni & Yacine Jernite.

She speaks truth in this question...

Degenerate: Against Education at Scale Ed-Tech Criticism. AI Refusal.

We have had a century of “big data,” seventy years of “AI,” decades and decades of Bill Gates' bullshit and “computers in the classroom.” It's batshit to believe that this time this time, the ed-tech is going to be good 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/degenerate-a...

In the past decade, there's been some incredible work exploring about how tech is never neutral (Noble, Benjamin, etc). The one thing I keep coming back to is recognizing that all tech is always designed/built towards a purpose and that purpose is often NOT reflected in how they're marketed.

Abolish "A.i."

Just a reminder that there is no psychotherapist-patient privilege with ChatGPT.

This is excellent

“we need more evidence before drawing sweeping conclusions about the impact of generative AI—and I agree. But that caution should cut both ways. If we're going to question the limitations of this early research, we must also scrutinize the uncritical embrace of AI in classrooms.”

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

I appreciate @gregpak.net's call-in of @rweingarten.bsky.social, and share all of the concerns he raises, both a teacher and a parent.

I continue to ask myself @janerosenzweig.bsky.social's question: what, exactly, is the problem that AI can (exclusively) solve?

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

a woman is sitting in a chair with the words jesus take the wheel written on the bottom ALT: a woman is sitting in a chair with the words jesus take the wheel written on the bottom

The latest GenAI product releases is a big YIKES. But also problems many of us knew was coming. Deep fakes. Agents completing online courses.

Weeks before the school year starts so teachers barely have time to respond thoughtfully.

Questioning AI Resource List Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

i have updated my anti-ai resource list to include a tab full of memes and social posts people can share (including ai fails, posts with analysis and framing) as well as a tab about taking action. i'm open to suggestions if people have ideas for things i should add: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than its median employee in 2024.

And we're supposed to believe that the company can't afford to bargain a fair contract for its unionized workers?

"The Ed. Dept. Wants to Steer Grant Money to AI **CORPORATIONS**. What That Means for **FUNDING OF PUBLIC** Schools" Fixed it for you, @edweek.org

No professor talked to me about religion my first year. I just met people who weren’t Christian for the literal first time in my life and was like wait a damn minute.

Exclusive | Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that the department also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victim...

#BREAKING: Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice told President Donald Trump in May that his name was among many in files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reports (Gift article) . www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

Interesting results but misses the main ways in which genAI has created more workload for those of us teaching in HE - redesigning assignments, implementing uni genAI policies, identifying misuse of genAI in submitted work, tackling academic misconduct cases, educating students about using genAI...

A disturbingly large number of otherwise well -informed people just assume that LLMs are really good at solving math problems - which they very much are not

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals.

The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

Again, I say: If AI is so good, why would I have to go to school to learn how to use it?