teaching AI as a concept not a business product
The general advice I would give to my arts and humanities colleagues as they address AI is the cliché martial arts fight scene advice: Trust your training! From a broadly-conceived humanities critical theoretical approach, what is artificial intelligence? If we want to talk about artificial intelligence as a term invented at conference at Dartmouth in…
Dry (AI) March
This is basically what you think it is. No intentional AI use. (I realize we’re soaking in it, but this is about experience.) This is something I am doing for myself. As part of my research approach, I engage with the media I am studying. In the 90s I learned HTML, then later other tools.…
AI Ethics and Science Wars 2
In the 1990s, the “science wars” asked whether science was objective or culturally constructed. Today, AI ethics raises a different but related question: can ethical norms be operationalized as optimization targets and enforced through technical architecture? Alignment is not the same as ethical agency. Guardrails are not the same as deliberation. And product safety is…
on the future of the teaching of writing
In ebr: electronic book review, Anna Mills, Jon Ippolito, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Annette Vee, and Marc Watkins have published a series titled The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing. My title borrows from theirs. They raise two important and related questions for writing instructors: Certainly there are many…
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Alex Reid, professor of digital rhetoric, Media & Artificial Intelligence 