Refusing AI: three Venn diagrams
I’ve been asked to discuss CCCC’s recent resolution on the right to refuse AI. I have already written about it here. From my perspective, this particular resolution is an academic freedom issue within a single discipline and largely focused on one kind of course: first-year composition. As this course is often taught by adjuncts, graduate…
AI literacy and teaching for transference
“Teaching for Transfer” is an operative concept in rhetoric and composition studies that address the concern that the learning experiences of first-year composition courses be transferable to future academic and/or professional writing contexts. It is not a concept without critics, but I would describe it as deeply embedded in disciplinary best practices. Following the basic…
AI and what may be refused
When we are refusing AI, what are we refusing? A CS field? A commercial product? An ideology? A story? And what does AI refuse of us? What does the higher ed story of AI refuse of us and our students?
artificial intelligence, going nowhere, and the remedy for thought
As we know, utopia is nowhere, literally. Much of the literary movement of “anti-anti-utopianism” can be understood as a recognition that utopia’s seek to go nowhere and dystopias are what result from the attempt. It might be useful to reframe this as anti-anti-nowhere-ism, but probably not. This confusing triple negative might be resolved in the…
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Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence 