José Marichal

Good idea...keep going until you him 330 million

How much do you think it's AI/LLM literacy... Like people saying " it's a computer, why would it make things up"?

Students, staff, faculty turning to ChatGPT? That means they are being asked to do things they don't have the time, resources, support, etc to do.

Thank you for saying this .. we're spending a lot of time berating people for using these tools instead of looking at the institutional decisions that incentivizes their use

The dangers of AI run far deeper than "cheating." By increasingly relying on AI, students are choosing enchanted "machine certainty" over hard-earned "explanation" and understanding.

More from me here: learn.elca.org/jle/machine-...

Machine Certainty: Ellul, AI and the Crisis of Democratic Understanding - Journal of Lutheran Ethics [1] “If we open up ChatGPT or a system like it and look inside, you just see millions of numbers flipping around a few hundred times a second, and we just have no idea what any of it means….We built t...

or it will further drive us towards desire-fulfillment technologies that separate us from humanity and make us less willing to defend institutions that protect individual rights." (3/3)

From my recent essay in the Journal of Lutheran Ethics:

learn.elca.org/jle/machine-...

This will either invite us to break away from the insistence on empirical understanding towards the inner world of emotion and experience ... (2/3)

"While the Enlightenment project presumably disenchanted by making explanation possible, the algorithmic/AI project “re-enchants” by being so computationally obscure that it returns us to astonishment... (1/3)

YouTube video by The Invisible Game The (Overdue) Collapse of Corporate Consulting

If AI brings down corporate consulting firms, maybe it's all worth it 😁

youtu.be/ysEAIIHzvXo?...

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The fact that US liberal democracy can't pass laws to restrict this practice is a clear indication of system failure

"Congress members’ stock portfolios perform 47% better after they take leadership positions"

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

Machine Certainty: Ellul, AI and the Crisis of Democratic Understanding - Journal of Lutheran Ethics [1] “If we open up ChatGPT or a system like it and look inside, you just see millions of numbers flipping around a few hundred times a second, and we just have no idea what any of it means….We built t...

My just published essay in the Journal of Lutheran ethics entitled "Machine Certainty: Ellul, AI and the Crisis of Democratic Understanding"

Prices in the Machine - The American Prospect AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.

AI pricing is here, and you’re paying for it. Corporations are raking in record profits by using AI to set prices based on personal data — and loyal customers end up paying the most. “It is a well-oiled extraction machine.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/PKHo6he

This is wild. So now students are going to be coached on how to engage in "performative joy"on interviews. And then presumably they'll be a "b******* jobs" industry of people who train HS seniors on how to perform for the AI to get into the elite college of their choice.

Unpredictability is quickly becoming the basis of human freedom in the age of prediction AI

How to Win Red States With a Labor Party We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.

Read this:

For Dems to be viable in Red states, they need to get creative. A "labor party" that caucuses with Democrats could give some voters a permission structure to vote their economic interests in a way they don't think they currently have..

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...

Honored to have the opportunity to join my brilliant coauthor @daniellecitron.bsky.social on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast to talk about trust and safety and legal endogeneity. Thanks @dwj88.bsky.social !

The presenece of Amazon 1 cent deals says something about last stage capitalism, but I'm not sure what...

Facebook thinks I really like Bjork. I mean, who doesn't like Bjork, but five posts in a row about Bjork? What do they know about me that I don't 🤔

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Why Is the Rent So Damn High? The Real Reason Will Shock You

Great example of price collusion via algorithm... I talk about RealPage in my book and on my class on technology and politics.

youtu.be/cwlwrZst7d0?...

YouTube video by The B1M Why Bhutan is Building the Anti-Dubai

Realist and rationalists say individual self interest is intrinsic to human nature ...

and then there's Bhutan

youtu.be/hPlRmUv7qzo?...

You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem - Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract; How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden costs...

So many great books coming out!! Thanks for starting the thread 😁 Here's another one to throw on the pile. It's on the Democratic value of remaining unpredictable to algorithms and the need to "renegotiate or algorithmic contract" to retain our unpredictability.

This also has to come with the affordance of grace to 18 year old young men who've been socialized this way and need space and guidnace (within reason) to grow into wisdom/discerners of good and bad masculinity norms.

"I could make a career out of being blue, smoke clove cigarettes and read Camus"

Is this the Conor Lamb election of 2025?

OpenAI launches shopping assistant The offering scours websites to recommend top products. It builds on OpenAI’s efforts to become a primary shopping destination, rivaling Amazon and Google.

Ironinc that the lack of interoperability that has "ens**ttified" the Internet is the very thing that is hampering OpenAI's efforts that creating a "shopping assistnat'

www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Maybe even for undergrads.... it such a useful tool in one's cognitive toolkit.

Outstanding reflection on the importance of close reading. It's curious that universities are closing the very departments that teach students this critical skill. It's the one "AI-proof" pedagogy that demands attention and rejects cognitive offloading. Which is probably why it's under threat.

Great essay! I was at a conference at Notre Dame last month and while taking a stroll around campus, I saw a professor with about 20 students sitting around a fountain engaging in close reading. I've never seen more engaged students.

This is the best of the liberal project... the ability to "self-create" and engage in "experiments in living"... the fact that critical thinking gives you the ability to "self-create" is why universities are seen as a threat to traditional norms.